The U.S.' subsequent peak fashion specimen
Last season - whenever that was...at least a few months ago, it seems - a couple of the ladies of Shirtville (namely Lil' E and Red) used to love gossiping about the show featuring today's Daily Shirt.
Having never seen the program myself, I was generally left to my own devices, as it pertains to assessing their descriptions of what one human being did or said to another human being for the entertainment of a whole assortment of other human beings on the other side of the cable outlet.
And a couple of things occured to me; not actually seeing a group of beautiful women being not-so-beautiful people, that much of what I heard talked about sounded little different from the politics of real life relationships. Granted, the context is completely different, but these are essentially ego-dramas (that few of us would tolerate, in real life) branded as entertainment. As well, while most people are on generally good behaviour if they think someone is watching them, there is something about a TV camera that takes this equation and turns it on it's head.
Perhaps it's that the people watching aren't 'there' to see this behaviour as it occurs, or that others will only see this long after it's actually happened and thus time somehow makes it all better?
I personally think it has something to do with Pluto's deplanetisation. I hope those scientographists know the damage they've caused.
Having never seen the program myself, I was generally left to my own devices, as it pertains to assessing their descriptions of what one human being did or said to another human being for the entertainment of a whole assortment of other human beings on the other side of the cable outlet.
And a couple of things occured to me; not actually seeing a group of beautiful women being not-so-beautiful people, that much of what I heard talked about sounded little different from the politics of real life relationships. Granted, the context is completely different, but these are essentially ego-dramas (that few of us would tolerate, in real life) branded as entertainment. As well, while most people are on generally good behaviour if they think someone is watching them, there is something about a TV camera that takes this equation and turns it on it's head.
Perhaps it's that the people watching aren't 'there' to see this behaviour as it occurs, or that others will only see this long after it's actually happened and thus time somehow makes it all better?
I personally think it has something to do with Pluto's deplanetisation. I hope those scientographists know the damage they've caused.
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