Reality Shows: Keeping Up With The Male Body

After long hours of working or studying people tend to get to their houses to rest and relax, now a day’s television programs have become a way of escaping from reality and engage in the show. The genre of the shows may vary upon the person and their likes, but to day’s society and younger generation find reality shows to be amusing. An example of a very widely known reality show is “Keeping up with the Kardashians”. People spend most of their time watching shows and thinking of themselves in that famous positions. The main problem is how people interpret what they are seeing. What is heard and watch in those TV shows is what most of the people would like to experience in their life thinking to be real and normal. The main idea is to notice …show more content…
It just provides what people wants to see. Their main goal is to obtain and keep viewers. Producers achieve these things by presenting information and situations that people are interested in. “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” by Susan Bordo, represent how advertisements, TV shows, and what we see on social media is not what is actually portrayed. People are being affected by representation of the media in many ways. All of those images has gone through the photo shop or editing process to achieve what people wants to see. Their goal is to create the perspective everyone is happy with. Sometimes this bring harm to society since it can undervalue everything. It can serve as a delivery of a wrong message and …show more content…
Some people do not notice that but others do. The more people watch it, the more they get confused about what is real and what is not. It is very interesting how the illusion of reality in shows makes people more engaged in it. People never get to know how those characters are in their real life since they are not seeing the truth or what is behind them. They see what producer wants them to see. The main motive for watching reality television is social status. People do it to fit in and be like everyone else. When people watch reality TV they are more likely to end up having a negative perspective of a real and quality life than it actually is. People does not notice that they are allowing something else to determine what is reality for them. They believe everything they see and that shows us how easily people get convinced and controlled.
“Judgments of others are alienated expressions of our own unmet needs.” – Marshall Rosenberg. The greatest harm it does to society is that people tend to judge people for what they have instead of who they are. They create an environment of how people have to act and a perspective of how the character’s fake living and situations must be attach to their lives. Watching this shows make you feed that emotional need of being superior in society. Just because a lot of people do it, does not mean everyone has to do it. Happiness can not depend on