Vh1's "reality" programming is anything but. Instead, the shows seem to bubble to the surface from the depths of a bottomless cesspool of greed, confusion, humiliation, and fame, manufactured to provoke the worst in people. Seen this way, the shows seem more like cruel anthropological experiments—human soul-testing. Under guises of life-altering, redemption-boot camps, shows like Charm School and From G's to Gents claim to offer their contestants chances to change their destructive qualities, all these shows really do is put a bunch of people with emotional problems together in a house with a lot of alcohol and let the cameras roll. The means may not be all that agreeable (or tasteful), but the ends certainly offer some insight into our species' low psychological potential.
The MTV-owned cable network's newest show is called Tool Academy. The show takes men who's main goals in life seem to be to take steroids and take advantage of women, and puts them in a house together. The men's girlfriends have nominated them with the hopes that their men will change their triflin' ways, get good jobs and stop sleeping with other women. My question is, with so many interesting and kind men out there who are better-looking (in my opinion) than these hair product-addicted, fake-tanned, Tag-body spray-wearing fools (also the inspiration for this blog-turned-book), why do women want to date these guys in the first place? There is no way they are going to change, because, if anything, that they have agreed to participate in a program that derides them is testament to the fact that they just want to be on TV. They are, literally, egomaniacs. Nothing is as important to them as they are. Number one. Therefore, nothing else can be proven to them to be of any import, because no one else is worth listening to.
I'm already dying to see the reunion special.
