Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Bad Girls Club or The Stupid Bitches Club?

So I was bored at home and channel surfing when I came across the season 4 reunion of a show called "The Bad Girls Cub" on Oxygen. I did the unthinkable. I paused. I watched. I couldn't look away. I am perplexed, disturbed, entertained, and now feeling kind of itchy. These bitches make Courtney Stodden look like a suburban soccer mom.

I can't say this is the first time I have ever seen this show. I get sucked in when ever I go by it. In a nutshell it's a show about seven women with a number of "personal, behavioral, and psychological problems" living together for three months. Cameras record them getting drunk, falling over in the street, acting like whores and generally being big sloppy messes. It has made for some amazing reality television moments. This is The Bad Girls Club:

derp.
 So why do I keep watching it? Since I have started this post, the reunion show has ended and a special about the show's most dramatic moments is airing. It sounds like a bunch of homeless chiwawas fighting over a steak, looks like a public service announcement about herpes, and it feels like brain cells are committing suicide. So why watch?

Two words, ego boost. No matter how shitty and useless I feel sometimes, I am still not that girl up there. I still haven't pissed the bed on national television and I still haven't made a skeezy night vision sex tape with a club rat. I can settle in my small apartment and tune into a modern day depiction of "Lord of the Flies". Maybe next season they can even serve a bitch up, Simon style.

These girls are setting women back a few decades. Get a few uneducated broads in a house, feed them some booze and your are likely to see a vagina, some vomit and a bunch of hair extensions on the floor. 

I fucking love it.

Here are some more examples of this disgusting amazing show:

See? This is how you know they didn't go to college. If they had, they would know about the walk of shame.

it's all fun and games until someone threatens you with a hanger.
The sad thing is Googling the show produces little photographic evidence of trashy behavior even though the producers and The Oxygen Network use this as it's only selling point. 

"This week on an all-new bad girls club, random skank #1 confronts random skank #2 about how she's from random place and in random place they don't mess around." Literally fill in any woman's name and name of any US city and you will have the basic formula to any given bad girls episode. Go ahead...I'll wait.

In fact, I really couldn't find a lot of negative anything about the show. It seems America is completely at ease-in fact glorifying young women acting this way. And I find it so hilarious and cathartic that I fail to appreciate it for what it is. Teaching young girls that being worthless is fun! You can even be initiated into a club about it on national television...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We disconnected our cable box, but still pay for cable. Call it lazy, but I refuse to watch television - to stay away from crap like that. But I am hypocrite, because I will admit I get all excited when I snoop and find Facebook drama amongst friends.

Traaaaaaaaaaaash. I try to shun myself from the trashy people of the world. If I don't see it, it's not there. (No, I know it is there, but I am living in denial or a fantasy. Keeps me content.)

TheArtfulDodger said...

I try and stay away from tv, too. I can't stop myself! UGH! It's this whole thing.

mz.destiny said...

Omg I love this cause I feel the same way!!!