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  • Essay / Discrimination in Reality TV - 1003

    “Girl fights” have become an expectation on reality TV (Isaac). Just like children, adults learn from what they see. TV shows show beautiful, skinny, successful women fighting over unnecessary issues. Women on television spark drama and unfortunately, that's what keeps viewers entertained. Most women complain about having too much drama, but they religiously tune into their favorite reality TV shows to keep up with their drama. Over the years, “success” has gone from happy and healthy to skinny, popular, and rich, and “beauty” has gone from genuine and kind to slim and fashionable. Ironically, these perspectives have changed as the entertainment industry has evolved to represent these standards. In another way, television is believed to degrade women more than their appearance and personality. Jennifer Pozner of Ms. Magazine highlights the sexual degradation of women on reality TV. She cited a scene from ABC's The Bachelor that referred to women as "diggers for silver and gold..." (Pozner). Of course, anyone can be money hungry, but classifying all women that way is wrong. Attempting to lump all human beings together as one thing should never