"High Society" doesn't mean high culture

[Natasha]

"High Society" doesn't mean high culture

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/02/high_society_doesnt_mean_high_culture.php
Austen Crowder
10/26/10

Remember, folks: when you're rich, you can say anything!

CW is premiering its show "High Society" about Tinsley Mortimer. By the looks of the trailer it's going to be a high class affair, with smatterings of "the n-word" and the typical "you look like a ->-bleeped-<-" insults. After all, all trans women look ugly as sin, and we couldn't possibly ever look like just another girl in a crowd, right?

[tekla]

After all, all trans women look ugly as sin, and we couldn't possibly ever look like just another girl in a crowd, right?

Umm.  Go down to Wall Mart.  Watch the parking lot for an hour.  Guess what?  The average person is ugly as sin.  If you want to be portrayed as 'just another woman' then ugly as sin is going to fall right into the perimeters.  Fat too.

[spacial]

Reality TV is one of the main reasons I don't watch TV.

Whatever else it is, it isn't realty.

But it is cheap TV.

This reminds me of a point that was made by a well known marxist, back in the early 80s. When all the profit has been squeezed out and all that's left is a bare bones operation, making a steady income, will it close, even when it's making a profit, albeit, a non-increasing one.

I wonder if TV will begin to close down?

[tekla]

The thing that always struck me as funny is that if TV is escape, then is reality TV an escape for people who don't have any sort of real life at all?

[spacial]

When Big Brother, (Do you get that in N America?), first started, so many people I know were talking about it.

Quite late one evening, I was just about to go to bed and noticed it on the schedule. So I switched over.

To guys, sleeping. Separate beds. That was it.

Now I really don't want to judge, but if that's modern TV, then I am grateful I didn't aquire that habit.