I was half a virgin when I met him!
March 3rd 2008 10:59
Yeah… Gossip Girl is really stupid.
I have to admit, I don't actually watch the show, but I do watch FOX8, the cable network it airs on. As the result of intense surveying of the network, by which I mean I was unemployed and sitting on my ass for a fair while, I have determined that there's only one type of program Fox does well, and that's cartoons.
When you average it out, I probably watch about two hours of toonage on this station a day, which means I also am forced to watch a bucket load of commercials, as 1. The whole concept of paying for television i.e. pay TV went out the window about the same time the Jamster company was founded and 2. The days where you flicked to the music stations when commercials where on because they played decent music went out the window… the same time the Jamster company was founded. So yeah, when they’re not airing advertisements for video ring tones featuring a ridiculous rabbit singing to a carrot, they’re trying to make people watch Gossip Girl.
From what I gather, every week one of the main characters is tossing up whether or not to lose their virginity in that “I live a life of privilege so I have to make problems for myself so I can be an angst ridden teenager like the kids that huff paint behind Wal-Mart” kind of way. I’m in no way saying that making such a decision is not a big deal for a young person, because in fact for most teens it’s quite the contrary. But for those stereotypical Gossip Girl character types of chicks… well let’s just say that stereotypes have an air of truth to them.
I may not watch the show, but I freaking lived it. I went to a school, an all-girls private school at that, littered with those bitches. Stereotypes exist for a reason, because those ideas came from somewhere. From what I’ve seen, the ways the Gossip Girl girls (I’ve been trying to avoid writing that) have been drawn are right on the mark… but it some ways they’re about as believable as that rabbit is when he sings of eternal love to the carrot. Case in point: the virginity debate.
Call this an unfair generalisation if you will, but I lived amongst those banshees for four years, and as a general rule, for those girls no consideration goes into the loss of their virginity. Especially not the Days of our Lives style “will they wont they” seemingly eternal consideration that the Gossip Girl kids give the issue. In my experience, by the time the majority of those girls get to sex-ed class at 14 and are informed that the best way to be safe is to be abstinent (it was a catholic school too) they’re sitting there thinking “that ship sailed years ago”. Expect that thought wouldn’t actually be processed as a turn of phrase, they’d probably just roll their eyes or slump in their chair or do something else really hardcore and rebellious like that.
Even apart from how they deal with this matter, Gossip Girl is still a ridiculous show. In the one episode I actually did watch, this bunch of girls where having a “sleep-over” (their words) and instead of watching romantic comedies while wearing avocado masks and eating Tim Tams they went out to a night-club and one of them randomly pashed this guy then her FOURTEEN year old friend called up his girlfriend so she rocked up and all hell broke loose. Yeah, that’s exactly what happened at my sleep-overs back in the day. Then me and my girls went home and had a topless pillow fight and practiced kissing on each other.
I think the main problem with Gossip Girl is that it seems like the plotlines have been taken from the development process of more than one show. Like Fox had their own Cashmere Mafia/Lipstick Jungle show in the works and when they found out that two other networks were running with similar ideas they just mushed it together with the teen drama they were having a go at with the working title of “The New OC”.
Those characters should not be in high school, it just clashes with everything else they do. They should be single female cut-throat lawyers or competing investment brokers, or in similar lines of work like the overtly sexual-verging-on-predator type women that frequent SVU and all that crime drama trash. Such personalities are more believable as the perps in some bizarre murder than the kids that stayed home last night studying for their algebra exam. Yeah… I like the way I think. Give me a year and cash advance and I could develop a show about teens that rock you world the way Gossip Girl is supposed to… I think I’ll call it “Lipstick Mafia Girls”. Genius.
I have to admit, I don't actually watch the show, but I do watch FOX8, the cable network it airs on. As the result of intense surveying of the network, by which I mean I was unemployed and sitting on my ass for a fair while, I have determined that there's only one type of program Fox does well, and that's cartoons.
When you average it out, I probably watch about two hours of toonage on this station a day, which means I also am forced to watch a bucket load of commercials, as 1. The whole concept of paying for television i.e. pay TV went out the window about the same time the Jamster company was founded and 2. The days where you flicked to the music stations when commercials where on because they played decent music went out the window… the same time the Jamster company was founded. So yeah, when they’re not airing advertisements for video ring tones featuring a ridiculous rabbit singing to a carrot, they’re trying to make people watch Gossip Girl.
From what I gather, every week one of the main characters is tossing up whether or not to lose their virginity in that “I live a life of privilege so I have to make problems for myself so I can be an angst ridden teenager like the kids that huff paint behind Wal-Mart” kind of way. I’m in no way saying that making such a decision is not a big deal for a young person, because in fact for most teens it’s quite the contrary. But for those stereotypical Gossip Girl character types of chicks… well let’s just say that stereotypes have an air of truth to them.
I may not watch the show, but I freaking lived it. I went to a school, an all-girls private school at that, littered with those bitches. Stereotypes exist for a reason, because those ideas came from somewhere. From what I’ve seen, the ways the Gossip Girl girls (I’ve been trying to avoid writing that) have been drawn are right on the mark… but it some ways they’re about as believable as that rabbit is when he sings of eternal love to the carrot. Case in point: the virginity debate.
Call this an unfair generalisation if you will, but I lived amongst those banshees for four years, and as a general rule, for those girls no consideration goes into the loss of their virginity. Especially not the Days of our Lives style “will they wont they” seemingly eternal consideration that the Gossip Girl kids give the issue. In my experience, by the time the majority of those girls get to sex-ed class at 14 and are informed that the best way to be safe is to be abstinent (it was a catholic school too) they’re sitting there thinking “that ship sailed years ago”. Expect that thought wouldn’t actually be processed as a turn of phrase, they’d probably just roll their eyes or slump in their chair or do something else really hardcore and rebellious like that.
Even apart from how they deal with this matter, Gossip Girl is still a ridiculous show. In the one episode I actually did watch, this bunch of girls where having a “sleep-over” (their words) and instead of watching romantic comedies while wearing avocado masks and eating Tim Tams they went out to a night-club and one of them randomly pashed this guy then her FOURTEEN year old friend called up his girlfriend so she rocked up and all hell broke loose. Yeah, that’s exactly what happened at my sleep-overs back in the day. Then me and my girls went home and had a topless pillow fight and practiced kissing on each other.
I think the main problem with Gossip Girl is that it seems like the plotlines have been taken from the development process of more than one show. Like Fox had their own Cashmere Mafia/Lipstick Jungle show in the works and when they found out that two other networks were running with similar ideas they just mushed it together with the teen drama they were having a go at with the working title of “The New OC”.
Those characters should not be in high school, it just clashes with everything else they do. They should be single female cut-throat lawyers or competing investment brokers, or in similar lines of work like the overtly sexual-verging-on-predator type women that frequent SVU and all that crime drama trash. Such personalities are more believable as the perps in some bizarre murder than the kids that stayed home last night studying for their algebra exam. Yeah… I like the way I think. Give me a year and cash advance and I could develop a show about teens that rock you world the way Gossip Girl is supposed to… I think I’ll call it “Lipstick Mafia Girls”. Genius.
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I wouldn't be surprised if most of those girls are actually actors.
Bit of a shame that our society has a tendancy to sexualise our children so young these days though. I doubt shows like this really help in that department.