AIBU to think this is horrific?

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

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.

MarginalGain I remember hearing about that episode at the time and a few of us trying to work out if it was an urban myth. Hadn't heard of that show on Netflix but will check it out thanks!

It sounds totally sordid.

What have we come to . . .

It is very, very sad.

There was this kind of flamboyant typically gay man who had a crush on his neighbour and called the Jenny Jones show, which was looking for people who had same-sex crushes where the intended might not be out of the closet.

Jenny Jones drew him out, getting him to tell the audience about his sexual fantasies where he would spread whipped cream all over his body in a hammock in his garden.

It transpired that the target of his crush came from a very socially conservative, religious family and he was brutally embarrassed (this was Michigan in the 90s) and he killed him a few days later.

^sterotypically

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

I don't think it has anything to do with morals, liberal or otherwise.

Morons, maybe.

Sounds quite familiar.

Grim and obscene. I wonder what psychological support for the participants is like. It being the US I assume private and poorly/unregulated enterprise involved.

On its way to a UK TV near you anytime now ...

Yes it's awful, but it's all of a piece with horrors like Naked Attraction so I'm not sure we've got much room to talk

@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 😳

Now odd as it seems there is a tribe around somewhere where when a woman wants a babe she shags the whole lot of them!, so someone is the dad but no one knows who it is so they, the men support all the woman in the tribe as none of them know who is ther dad is for each child.

Seems it works well, but don't think it'll catch on in SW3 somehow..

I'm glad I'm not alone.
I had to check to make sure it wasn't a spoof - it does indeed sound like an episode of Black Mirror.

I thought we had already as a species sunk as low as possible. I was wrong.
I'd rather use donor sperm and have the baby all to myself.

Well.
Isn't that a lovely concept.
Heading further towards Gilead? Where "family" is nothing and "breeding" is all that matters?
Don't get me wrong, some people have families that suck - family isn't everything - but this is just commercial breeding for the viewing masses.

It's gross.

Oh god I remember when I was at university in the States there was a show on Fox called "The Swan" where they would take contestants in that were deemed to be ugly, and give them plastic surgery. It was absolutely horrific. However it did make me realise that 90% of the before and after improvement was just the women standing and walking with more confidence, hair, makeup and clothes - the plastic surgery was super grim and I have never ever been tempted since.