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| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| NOT FEELING THE LOVE |
Fox premiered their new dating show last night, More to Love. It began with poignant text stating that the average dating show contestant is size 2, while the average American woman is size 14. Luke, the show’s bachelor, prefers voluptuous and curvy women. All the contestants fit that bill.
OK, so far so good. Nice guy, looking for a ‘real’ woman, not some calorie obsessed Barbie. I liked that. Unfortunately that’s all I liked.
As contestants exited the limos and met Luke for the first time the show played short clips about each woman. Their stories were sad. Several women had never had a date, many felt this was their one and only chance in life for love. Through their tears they shared their hopes of finding a man who would “not be embarrassed to be with me”.
As the women spoke to the camera, below them was their ‘information’. In other dating shows the contestants are identified by name, occupation and the city they hail from. Here, contestant’s height and weight were also given.
How absolutely mortifying it must have been knowing that this information was going to be plastered across their pictures for all the world to see. If the goal of the series is to show that full figured women are every bit as awesome as their tinier counterparts, then what is the purpose?
In my opinion this only serves to objectify these women to the viewer. “Oh, she’s the one who weighs 280 pounds, and that’s the one that weighs 200 pounds.” When in reality they should be identified as the intelligent rocket engineer or the outgoing photographer.
It seems to me that the show is hoping to capitalize on portraying these women as somewhat pathetic; as if the status of their love lives was the sum total of their worth. How unfortunate, how sad, how wrong.
Did you watch? What did you think?
- Renee
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thanks for sharing.. must say really good article. i know some girls out there are really obsessed with calories. they check everything before they eat that how much calories they are going to gaiv fater eating that:-)
i think they should just eat anything like guys... joke.. good post. keep it up.
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thanks for sharing.. must say really good article. i know some girls out there are really obsessed with calories. they check everything before they eat that how much calories they are going to gaiv fater eating that:-)
i think they should just eat anything like guys... joke.. good post. keep it up.
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