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In which Hugga watches trash TV
Jan. 8th, 2012 04:37 pmOk, I'll admit it: every time I go to the grocery store, I have this intense craving to buy a magazine with my juice/instant curry rice/salted caramels, and it has to be trashy. We're talking Star, OK!, People, etc.
So, of course, I see trends in this covers as time goes on because somehow I always end up with a giant pile at my house. And lately I've seen more and more about "Teen Mom", with giant ass letters about how Barbie is breaking up with Ken leaving baby Kelly behind and I don't know their names I don't watch the show.
Apparently the BIG ASS LETTERS worked into brainwashing me, because I was bored with APUSH and flipped on the TV, and look what's on- Teen Mom.
Ok, granted, I wasn't paying my full attention (I was too busy memorizing why the Northern economy boomed during the Civil War), but I caught bits and pieces to see if it was really up to the hype.
Let me tell you.
It's fucking boring.
I've watched 16 and Pregnant before, and from what I've gathered, Teen Mom is pretty much a follow up to that show. And it's just as boring as before. They literally changed nothing. It's the same thing over and over again: teenage girl gets pregnant, tells her family while crying, breaks up with boyfriend and keeps baby while dropping out of school.
That's not a TV show. That's a warning story in an abstinence pamphlet.
Seriously, every time I looked up each girl was saying the same thing: "I'm breaking up with X because of Y and Z, and mom you are being so unfair I can take care of my baby." It's not even "so bad it's good" like Maury or Jerry Springer where the people are seriously dumb. It's not even a "cringe and watch the trainwreck show", like Hoarders or Intervention. These are just a bunch of random kids (some of them younger than me, even!) with kids themselves and making bad decisions typical of kids with misplaced responsibility.
And that's why I don't get the hype, and why these kids are put on magazines and exploited. From what I've seen in the articles, they go in depth into the lives of these uninteresting and underage people. I don't get why the intended demographic of these magazines (18-30 year old females) would even care about teenagers getting pregnant other than quoting statistics for sex education. I don't get why these people have become celebrities for having children while children.
Someone, please explain this for me. I just want to get my curry rice without being yelled at by the magazines about Barbie and Ken's second baby.
So, of course, I see trends in this covers as time goes on because somehow I always end up with a giant pile at my house. And lately I've seen more and more about "Teen Mom", with giant ass letters about how Barbie is breaking up with Ken leaving baby Kelly behind and I don't know their names I don't watch the show.
Apparently the BIG ASS LETTERS worked into brainwashing me, because I was bored with APUSH and flipped on the TV, and look what's on- Teen Mom.
Ok, granted, I wasn't paying my full attention (I was too busy memorizing why the Northern economy boomed during the Civil War), but I caught bits and pieces to see if it was really up to the hype.
Let me tell you.
It's fucking boring.
I've watched 16 and Pregnant before, and from what I've gathered, Teen Mom is pretty much a follow up to that show. And it's just as boring as before. They literally changed nothing. It's the same thing over and over again: teenage girl gets pregnant, tells her family while crying, breaks up with boyfriend and keeps baby while dropping out of school.
That's not a TV show. That's a warning story in an abstinence pamphlet.
Seriously, every time I looked up each girl was saying the same thing: "I'm breaking up with X because of Y and Z, and mom you are being so unfair I can take care of my baby." It's not even "so bad it's good" like Maury or Jerry Springer where the people are seriously dumb. It's not even a "cringe and watch the trainwreck show", like Hoarders or Intervention. These are just a bunch of random kids (some of them younger than me, even!) with kids themselves and making bad decisions typical of kids with misplaced responsibility.
And that's why I don't get the hype, and why these kids are put on magazines and exploited. From what I've seen in the articles, they go in depth into the lives of these uninteresting and underage people. I don't get why the intended demographic of these magazines (18-30 year old females) would even care about teenagers getting pregnant other than quoting statistics for sex education. I don't get why these people have become celebrities for having children while children.
Someone, please explain this for me. I just want to get my curry rice without being yelled at by the magazines about Barbie and Ken's second baby.
