WTF Reality TV?

    Reality TV is shown on every channel we may not even notice it but it has completely taken over television. From the housewives of New Jersey, black ink crew, mob wives, bad girls club, keeping up with the Kardashians they even have a show about freaking Honey boo boo. I wouldn’t have a problem with reality TV if it was real. The idea of a show that exhibits real people going through real life situations is a brilliant idea, and some shows pull this off. Many are all superficial soap operas with characters that are the farthest from real. The women in some of these shows are Barbie doll bimbo types that don’t do anything but start drama and of course look gorgeous. (or so they think) The men are macho jerks who try to bang every thing that moves. And of course the stereotypes, most of these shows display a black girl that is extremely vulgar and violent, or a gay guy is incredibly flamboyant. This is just the tip of the iceberg they have white trash families and a black character that’s in trouble with the law often.

I’m not going to lie I’ve watched my fair share of reality tv, but by now I know better than to take these shows seriously. Some of the young minds that are still developing and absorbing information don’t know better. Most of these young minds watch this crap and think this is the way life really goes. They learn about stereotypes and poor, impulsive decision making, and soon they’ll make up the population of ignorant assholes in the world.(we already have enough of them) If this doesn’t upset you think of all the wonderful, creative screenwriters who lose jobs to fast talking money-hunger reality show producers.

       

A Picture in Perspective

    Nineteen-year-old local Pittsford teen Charlie Tan was accused of shooting his father. Charlie Tan and his family were victims of domestic violence, but is this an explanation? While watching the news and Charlie’s friends and classmates were crying and talking about how nice of a person he was, and how he doesn’t deserve this. A fund raiser was made to donate money for Tan for defense. This website has raised $45,000 and the numbers are growing by the day. Lisa Donlon killed her husband in his sleep Oct 7 2012. After being held against her will and tortured for three days.

          Yes, these are both tragic situations but that is not what the news is reporting. The story that is being reported is the story of the promising kid who is graduating from Cornell who was saving his family. Lisa Donlon was a killer who was explained as an emotionally unstable housewife. Her situation being more extreme than Tans Donlon's story was focused on the act of murder. Little information about Charlie murdering his father was given and more about how good of a person he was.
       Though I hope, all goes well for Charlie Tan. I wish we would also look closer at the picture of the situation. Instead of the sometimes-misleading picture, we see of the person behind the gun. Yes, abuse is abuse, but murder is murder if no one remembers it’s also wrong.

                                                         



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MacIntyre-Yee, Tina. "Neighbors: Pittsford homicide suspect polite." democratandchronicle.com. N.p., 

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https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/5mp7/the-charlie-tan-support-fund?utm_source=facebook

I finally finished Age of Miracles.

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    Welcome to Kool-aid Rain drops I am a creative writing major at SOTA. I'm taking a course in writing for publications and the assignment was to make a blog. The course is about publishing your writing and learning to make a living from writing. So i'll be "publishing", or updating this blog often.
   I enjoy reading stories that are based on realistic or real situations. Currently I'm reading The Age Miracles I'm about done with it and it is really interesting. It is based around science so I was not looking forward to reading this book because i'm more of a realist, but i'm really enjoying this book.