AIBU to think that Love Island should be axed?

[Jade218]

AIBU to think Love Island is sending really harmful messages and is really bad for modern society and should be axed?

My reasons;

1. Two suicides as a result of participants being unable to cope after the show
2. Every year black female contestants are voted last (I can’t help but feel producers should ensure there is an opportunity for a contestant to be picked by asking if people would consider interracial dating - in the same way they wouldn’t put in a gay person without ensuring there is a potential suitor that is also gay)
3. The ‘ideal standard of beauty’ being promoted is really harmful to young people and is not helping their insecurities
4. The message that being ‘pretty’ is enough to get you all the fame and money in the world

It disgusts me. I’m on the verge of starting an online position for it to be axed - if Jeremy Kyle deserves to be axed so does this! AIBU or does anyone else agree?

I hate this shit. Im in my forties so old enough to remember when reality TV wasnt even a thing.

Then there is the misogyny Society and the programme itself encourages young women to be sexy and as soon as one of them follows through on that.......she loses her Miss Great Britain title.

www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/17/miss-great-britain-title-sex-itv2-love-island-zara-holland-alex-bowen

“ I disagree with how it promotes an unobtainable standard of beauty.”

It doesn’t do that.

here we go

It doesn’t do that

No? So everyone can access cosmetic surgery, unlimited gym sessions and various substances injected into wherever to make them bigger?

Don't talk pish. It entirely does promote an unnatural and for most, unobtainable standard of "beauty". Which isn't good for youngsters who feel shit because they don't look like that.

It's not new, look at the supermodels of the 90s, and all the concern about how it was encouraging young girls to starve themselves.

Now it's encouraging them to pump their perfectly beautiful bodies full of Botox/silicone/fillers.

I think it's completely grim and exploitative.

The lines between reality TV and fiction have become so utterly blurred, I wondered if The Undateables are actually actors. (they're not......apparently!)

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/its-time-love-island-end-16520058?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

"Why its time for Love Island to end ban on disabled contestants"

The whole show should be axed IMO but this article has made some excellent points.

In one way I actually think it's good for young people to see these Instagram 'influencers' in real life as real people.

Take Mollie-Mae Hague for example. If you look at her Insta she is literally this perfect, almost cyborg like, young woman. Photoshopped to perfection, no personality on display at all, just the odd mysterious Instagrammy caption. You don't imagine her as an actual person at all really.

Watching her arguing with Tommy the other night, as a human with actual feelings, not in a perfect pose, in her PJs, no make up etc is really quite the eye opener and I think it would be for young people as well.