I know I will face an inevitable backlash with this blog because it is about a trash television show, The Real World. Dear blog reader, you may be thinking, Mariam, do you seriously watch that show? Do you really watch a show that's watched by high schoolers or college kids when they're stoned or post-hangover?
If you are in your early twentysomethings, then you remember fondly when The Real World was about actual issues. Remember the first season in New York when Julie asked Heather if she was a drug dealer because she had a beeper? Remember the infamous fight between Julie and Kevin on the street about race (ah, the early 90s with its whole "struggles of the black man" vibe)?
Remember Pedro? I swear, Pedro taught me everything I needed to know about AIDs and HIV. I still reecall him telling high school kids in his cute Hispanic accent, "I got ze disease through heterosexual sex," which I found to be astounding at the time. Remember Puck, the first roommate to be kicked out? God, now he was a real douche. Anyways, back in the 90s The Real World was about Issues that plagued the last decade of the twentieth century. Although these Issues were more After School Special than an actual intellectual debate that would make Noam Chomsky proud, it was so much more than what the show has devolved into now.
Now, the show is about plastic looking 19 year olds getting hammered and hooking up every single night while their drunken fights are televised. I may sound like my granny, but the show is absolutely disgraceful!
However, what affected me profoundly in today's episode was not the epic fight between the Iranian girl and one of the bottled blonds (one calling the other "SLUT!" drunkenly), but it was the outfit one of the roommates chose to wear. One blonde girl (I think her name was Shawnda) wore a Juicy Couture track suit with "JUICY" emblazoned on the butt...to a club! While I understand that a track suit from Juicy costs at an upward of $180, it is not something one would wear to a nightclub. This girl was also wearing heels with her track suit, and while I realize that cast mates on this show are not exactly Valentinos or Halstons in training, there is no excuse for such a major faux pas. These days, the fashion community debates whether it's socially acceptable to wear a Juicy track suit to the grocery store, much less a club! All I have to say to that is, wow, Real World, you and Bunim-Murray productions have reached a new low.
--By Mariam, who realizes this isn't a blog-worthy topic, but just was so upset by the Juicy suit that she had to get her feelings out. Also, she realizes that probably 2 people who read this blog (nameless friend and Bushra) are the only ones who are really going to get the references about The Real World.
7 comments:
Puck, Pedro, what legends. And track suits work for any occasion!
We didn't have cable when I was little, and even if we did I was NOT allowed to watch MTV. What kind of foreign kid are you?
i'm baffled too... you watched TRW early on. i could barely watch it then!
did pedro really say 'hetero...' bc didn't he mean 'homo'?
Um, well, in my defense, I only watched reruns of the NY and San Fran ..I wasn't allowed to watch MTV either until like 8th grade. I promise. I'm like you guys!!!!!!!!
Also, Pedro did get AIDs from heterosexual sex and that's why he said not to be racist against gays.
This blog did make me remember the good ole days of the real world.....aaahhh memories :)
I wasn't allowed to watch MTV ever! Boo! Except my mom thought the people with strange psychological problems on Loveline were fascinating, so she would watch that all the time and would let me watch it, too. So I might not have been allowed to watch music videos, but kinky sex talk was okay, apparently?
P.S. I originally intended to comment about Noam Chomsky and how annoying I think it is that he thinks that just because he's a genius at linguistics that that must mean that he's a genius at everything. Boy did I get sidetracked!
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