SURVIVOR'S RACIST

For those of you who haven't heard, Survivor is trying something "different" this season. Dividing the tribes by gender and age didn't stir the pot enough, so they think dividing them by race will. I am so infuriated at this I don't know what to do with myself. At first I didn't think much of it, now I'm just pissed.

The tribes are being divided into four groups, African-American, White, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American. Eventually they will merge, like the age teams from last year, but until then, America will root for a particular race, hoping another race fails miserably. Race is such a hot issue in America, I don't think creating a competition show where people will be hoping that one race doesn't make it, and that the stereotypes are promoted, is a good thing.

The reply I've seen from Mark Burnett's (the executive producer) company is that they've gotten flak for not casting a lot of ethnicities in the past, and they want this to be a sign that they are starting to see that diversity is good. First of all, why don't they just cast some ethnic people? Why do they have to make it all controversial? Secondly, the ethnic people they do cast are all idiots, lazy or follow some sort of stereotype. In all of his shows. Granted, there have been a few exception, like Cirie from last season, but even then she had never been camping and freaked out for the first few days until she got used to it.

Rooting for the women to kick butt it one thing, but rooting for the black people or Hispanic people to lose is just not cool. And how did they cast it? Are the black people lazy (like they normally cast it) and the Asian-Americans really smart? The only way this will ever be okay with me if they cast it completely against stereotypes, so that the backward ass people in America won't be getting any reinforcements of how "blacks" or any other races act.

AM I REALLY WATCHING THIS?

Sometimes even I wonder if I'm crazy. Some people think I'm crazy because I watch so much television. I, on the other hand, think I'm crazy because I watch Flavor of Love. I don't know what it is about this show, but I'm addicted. It's Tivo'd and I get excited to see what's happening with the girls, and Flav. I'm not saying I'm not deeply offended by the overt misogyny, because I am, sorta. I don't know. The women are gross representations of how women act, and really, are they in love with Flav. God love him he's ugly. Really ugly. One thing I can say for him though is he's sincere. I know this sounds crazy, and I would even question myself if I had said it before I watched the show, but I think he truly wants to find love and is giving these girls real chances to show him they care. Plus, he listens to them with their complaints, watches tapes back to get the real story, everything The Bachelor doesn't do and you wish he/she did. You want to scream at them and say, "Just watch the tape and you'll see he/she's a lying whore." Yet, they never do. Flav does though.

And these women, it's really like watching a car wreck. They're all strippers, which we find out that Flav doesn't mind. In fact, Toastee was accused of being a porn star by Nibblz, whose name should be Nipples because she wears shirts that show off her Nibblz, I mean nipples. But we have to know the reason Nibblz tells on Toastee is the night before they slept in Flav's bed and Toastee told everyone he heard Nibblz, ah, er, um, helpin' Flav out if you know what I mean. Of course Nibblz denies this. Flav told the girls that he was going to do some research on the Internet and figure out who was lying, Toastee who said she hadn't done porn, or Nibblz. During elimination, Flav shows us his findings. Although, we can't see them because the entire picture he holds up is blurred. Toastee really was a porn star. Flav said that it's not the fact that she was a porn star, obviously, but the fact that she lied about it. When she was crying to the camera she tells us she doesn't even really count that photo spread. We know why too, slyly some of the girls spill what was on the picture. Toastee, having a good time with Toastee, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, this show is one I just can't stop watching. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, you should try to. I don't think it's for everybody, and quite honestly, if you haven't watched it from the beginning and realized what kind of women poor Flav is dealing with, you might just take it for the disgusting woman bashing racist piece of crap it is.