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What not to wear - why has it become so nasty?
MeanBean · 06/10/2004 21:13
I felt really angry watching it tonight. All these women bearing their souls in front of millions of people and then being told to p* off because they hadn't made it into the programme. It was a really interesting programme this evening, about the invisibility and depression engendered by menopause, but this new format where extremely vulnerable women expose themselves to millions of people on TV and then get nothing from it seems really exploitative and unpleasant to me. Am I being over-sensitive?
Lonelymum · 07/10/2004 13:59
I didn't think it was too bad last night. I know what you mean about the selection process, but I thought T and S were very kind and sympathetic towards the two women they picked. And neither of them looked too bad when they were in their underwear which was a huge surprise. But who willingly stands in their underwear in front of millions of TV viewers? one wonders. If they are prepared to do that, the selection process must seem pretty harmless.
Did it make any of you think about the menopause in a new light? I have never given the menopause much thought before, but now I am going to try and sort myself out before I hit that time, otherwise I will never survive the experience!
Lonelymum · 07/10/2004 14:05
The programme starts with a crowd of women wanting to be helped each giving T and S their home video of themselves. From this, T and S select five women to interview and then they choose two of them but do so by making them stand in a line as if in a police ID parade. The two they pick, get the usual treatment, the other three get sent packing.
suzywong · 07/10/2004 14:10
isn't it distressing, the competitive depths people will, presumably volunatarily, go to to get on the bloody tv.
Surely this desparate exhibitionism has got to come to an end soon.
I mean really (she says while watching a fab Aussie programme like Batchelor only with one girl and 12 guys and the twist is some of them are gay and she has to find out which ones!!!!!)
suzywong · 07/10/2004 14:14
they had a challenge like that, they had to pick a frock for her, but now it's getting a bit bitchy as there are only 5 left. I put my money on the one who cried when he lost a race to sheer sheep and has an Enrique style woolly hat and a slight lisp. Dya know whaddImean?
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