AIBU to think this is horrific?

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I've just read an article about a new US reality show where the concept is that men compete to impregnate a woman who wants a baby.
Labor of Love: the baby-making reality show you won't believe

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/21/labor-of-love-kristin-davis-fox?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

I know we've had some awful ideas for shows before, but this one has the end result of producing a baby. It feels like some sort of dystopian alternative universe except it's actually a thing.

@SuperlativeScrubs they're pics of the woman who has to choose the man, not Kristen Davis

I don't think this is really much different in so much as those who want to take part know what it entails.

Except the baby, of course. The one whose existence was merely a by product of the narcissistic need for mummy and daddy to get their mugs on tv.

Surely this, together with the fire, floods and smiting we have experienced is the final sign of the apocalypse?

Don't forget the plague of killer hornets, @fuckinghellthisshit!

I started reading thinking that this is awful. However I ended up thinking, this isn’t bad, as an educational wake up call to women and men dating.

What makes a good Dad and partner for a family? This isn’t the worst thing to get young men and women thinking about. And reality tv is what is being listened to and watched, why not put it in a format that will be engaged with?

I’ve found the dating world is now so brutally skewed to being good looking, successful, that those vital traits for starting a stable family are way down the list. This show highlights those traits. In a very silly glossy way sure, but it does.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g and and actual plague of locusts in sub saharan africa...... it is indeed the end of days

@Meruem I thought the same!! She was gonna be inseminated by the whole lot, and whoever wins at the end gets to be the father 😳

Does anyone remember ‘there’s something about mirium’? I know the contestants tried to sue the production company after. I’m not sure if they got any payouts

Have they forgotten to mention it’s actually a black mirror episode...?

I'd like to say I'm shocked, but I'm afraid that nothing in the world of reality tv shocks me anywhere.

I think I stopped being shocked around the time that watching a former glamour model eating a kangaroo's anus became considered entertainment. Or maybe it was that girl masturbating with a bottle in the Big Brother garden.

If everyone stopped watching this shit, companies would stop making it.

Shocks me any MORE, ffs!

I think it’s a great idea for a TV show. People will definitely watch it. Especially if lots of other people give it the “this is horrific / end of the world is nigh” attention it’s getting here. Which always happens when one of these shows pops up on the viewing horizon.

There is so much reality television and I hate it all ( except sewing bee). For some time now I realise I have gradually withdrawn from this type of show and I felt it was just me that didn’t like the screaming, hype and generally whipping up to a frenzy.

Seeing this makes me realise I now don’t care if I am odd, the whole premise of creating a child for entertainment is abhorrent.

This can’t be real.

Are you sure it isn't a Black Mirror episode?

This.

Are we ignoring the fact that Kristin Davis no longer even looks like herself?

That isn’t Kristen Davis.

Bread and circuses on crack.

I had to check that wasn't another Kristen Davis!

Because, and I really can’t stress this enough, Labor of Love is stupid
It is arguably the most knuckleheaded show I have seen in half a decade. You could take this show and bury it in the desert, and people would still be able to locate it from the stench of its utter, logic-defying stupidity. Watching Labor of Love is like pulling your brain out of your ear with a corkscrew and booting it into a lake

Jeez. What the actual fuck? How gross.

Has anyone seen the 'Trial by Media' documentary on Netflix at the moment? They have one episode on the infamous, now-defunct Jenny Jones show were very sadly one contestant murdered another afterwards.

They were successfully sued although I think it might have been overturned on appeal (I haven't finished yet) - they were so unbelievably negligent.

I would have thought this wouldn't get past Legal.

I'm hoping Covid may reset society's norms and the sort of vacuous people on these shows will dwindle.

I'm hoping Covid may reset society's norms and the sort of vacuous people on these shows will dwindle.

I think there is an equal chance it will create more.

It is vile - but only the next stage on the road where liberal morals have been taking us, over the last 50 years.

Only in the US... thank goodness

Only in the US... thank goodness

Oh definitely. This could never happen in the UK.