What Reality TV Is Doing To Women

If you were to have read Cheryl Isacc’s article, “What Reality TV is doing to Women,” then you would see that reality TV is actually affecting women greatly. Throughout the article, Isacc makes it known that TV shows such as, Celebrity Apprentice, Basketball Wives, and Real Housewives of New York City are in fact corrupting the minds of women and as she states, “makes it hard to tell the difference between a reality star and the average woman.” In my opinion, this means that people are trying hard to be just like their favorite reality stars. This is a bad thing considering the fact that most reality stars are selfish and arrogant. But how does that make sense, aren’t reality stars supposed to be average people? Well that’s just what the producers …show more content…
While she talks about bullying in her article she only leads towards women. Well actually her whole article is only about women but I feel as though it is also true to men. A lot of reality shows now a days are gender neutral and they have both male and female characters. Take Survivor for an example, those men and women are out they’re fighting each other and backstabbing each other in order to win the game. It shows people that in order to make it in the world, you need to do what they are doing. When one dude gets up in the face of another dude the show becomes interesting. When you have younger boys watching the show, let’s just say in their early teenage years, their instinct is to reenact those guys that they look up to. Due to this you will have teenagers getting in other teens faces trying to act like their favorite Survivor. In the article, Isacc states “put a bunch of women in a room, and you get a catfight.” She claims that the reasoning behind this is because now an average woman acts as if they are a reality star. Unfortunately this is true and like I said previously it is the same for men. Men are going to work trying to act like they own the world when in reality they are in the same position as half of the people they work …show more content…
Let’s compare two TV shows, Impractical Jokesters and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Both of these shows are about the lives of people but one is primarily men as the main characters and the other is primarily women. What both of these shows have in common is the characters are insane! Sal, Joe, Q, and Murr in impractical jokesters go around trying to do whatever the other guys tell them to do and most of the time the tasks are plain stupid. Yet throughout their stupidity they still get unbelievable ratings. On the other hand, Keeping Up with the Kardashians is all about the life of the Kardashians. The Kardashian girls are all so insane which makes for a good TV Show. So as you can see it doesn’t matter whether it is a guy or a girl, the same effects come from both genders. Just like the bullying scenario, when people start to watch these shows they tend to reenact them and they will do the insane things just to get