I Hate Love Island

[NotANaturalBlonde]

There must be someone else who does too? I can't be the only one?

To think these morons are receiving air time and probably a lot of money for opening their legs and shagging people they've known for 3 days in front of the nation? To think there are teenagers and young girls watching thinking THIS is what relationships should be like, with shallow, air headed people who just fuck and chuck as soon as someone with better tits or a better six pack or more x rated Instagram pictures comes along?

I do admit after hearing about it everywhere I did attempt to tune in for the first time but after seeing girls cry over lads that don't give a shit about them and all the rejection and humiliation etc (they don't want a doctor with brains they'd rather have a narcissistic snake with a six pack) I just found it so depressing.

I can't believe so many intelligent people are into it.

Anyone else?!

I think it's really useful for teens/young adults to see this playing out on TV - opens their eyes to the gaslighting, game playing, abusive behaviour that is rife in real life but harder to spot when you're in the midst of it.
Also, given that the only sexual relationships that have developed this year have involved a man and a woman, I'm not sure why the ones "opening their legs" deserve all the scorn.

It is definitely vacuous crap but we all watch it in this house - including four teens and their various friends.

I can assure you that, like the occasional MacDonald's, it forms only part of our viewing diet and sits alongside stuff you'd probably approve of.

The trouble is that, if you watch from the beginning, you are invested in the characters in a way you won't be if you dipped in once for thirty minutes.

Hearteningly, my teens are usually laughing at the stupidity, the bedhopping, the desperate bid for celeb status. They are rooting for the women who don't take any shit, and for the men who have shown some integrity. It has sparked many a useful debate about what is and isn't acceptable behaviour in a relationship.

Just so you know - I'm a single 42 year old man without children - I know this makes me sound a dodgy weirdo. The only reason I ended up here is because I also despise love island - It teaches all the wrong values to both boys and girls - If this is all the future generation have to aspire to , well then we as a species are fuckjed!!! This is garbage TV which promotes all the worst aspects of what being a human is about.... Please ITV brick this shit!!!

Lots of really weird hang ups on this old thread.

Don't watch it as it's a crock of shit. I think a lot of people laugh at the contestants and their bad choices by the sounds of it. I think it's sad though that that constitutes entertainment, and given that two contestants have committed suicide, I'm surprised it is still going.

I don't think everyone necessarily aspires to be like the contestants and their would be a lot of men who would run a mile from the female contestants as they are perceived as high maintenance (some might shag first, then run). I don't like the fact that it appears to reinforce the stereotype of females having to look great in a swimsuit and men appearing macho, but then I have barely watched the programme, so maybe I missed the intelligent bit! First impressions were a bit baffling, so I changed channel.