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February 23, 2006

These people have too much time on their hands

Via Pam at Pandagon, I see that the American Family Association's One Million Moms is planning to boycott the advertisers of Desperate Housewives.

OMO calls Desperate Housewives "one of the most vulgar and tasteless programs on television."

I'm the last one to judge other people's taste in television..but please: "One of the most vulgar and tasteless on TV"? I've watched "Housewives" many times. It doesn't come close to being the most vulgar and tasteless thing on TV.

I've never actually watched this program in its entirety because honestly, I can't sit throught it. But Wife Swap is a hand's down winner in the ABC TV line up of vulgarity in television. While I recognize that it doesn't play to the homophobic fundy gay recruitment fears, this obnoxious piece of garbage TV highlights the worst aspects of reality television. They choose the most shallow set of immoral sleazeballs and match them up with closed minded bigots. It makes the wimmens of Wisteria Lane look like the puppets on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

And then there's Fear Factor. This is another show I can't sit through. Its just too disgusting. There is no way I'll be convinced that watching people eat buffalo balls and maggots is less vulgar than couples having affairs or gay kids coming out to their parents. No friggin way.

But this show tops them all. Real life ordained ministers calling for the deaths of foreign leaders, there is nothing more vulgar. Trying to blame natural disasters on a vengeful God who wants to elminate societies where homosexuals dwell--can't think of anything more tasteless.

These OMO women need to find something better to do with their time. My grandma used to say that "idle hands are the Devil's workshop". Looks to me like these women have been in idle overdrive.

Posted by Carla at February 23, 2006 09:21 AM