I overloaded on TV programming aimed (supposedly) at the teenaged
set last night. (We all know they really
want to sucker in 80s kids/Gen-Xers, give me a break.) Greek
was on, as well as The Secret
Life of the American Teenager, and OF COURSE the premier of 90210! None of them are fabulous, as far as
acting/storylines/consistency goes, but they can be satisfying. 90210 was no exception but I think I have to continue
watching it, juuuust to see how it goes.
Besides, it has that girl from Degrassi who was the uber-Christian
chick and wore a chastity ring and then, you know, she started posting sexy
pics of herself online for money until she got stalked and then she repented
and then she started dating a “bad boy” and was considering having sex (bad
Christian!) but instead got roofie raped at a party. And her Friendship Club was so mean about it. You know, her.
Hi, my name is the weirdgirl and I’m addicted to teen
dramas.
(Except not shows like The OC or Gossip Girl because those are SO
unrealistic!)
Speaking of realism, the upcoming presidential race might be
even more historic than we all thought. Not only do we have a woman and an
African-American nominated (although… am I the only one who kind of thinks that
Condoleezza Rice has been our unofficial VP since before Cheney’s hunting accident?) but we might actually see those
candidates living real life! With teen
pregnancy and issues from being of mixed ancestry! Wouldn’t that be refreshing? Because you know the rest of us live in a
world where shit happens and you deal with it, without spin or polish or image
specialists in technicolor. And in the
end, life turns out to be just life. There’s
no doubt that this race is shaking things up in this country. Maybe it’ll shake a few heads out of some
butts, too. I’m sure they’ll feel
lighter.
Then again this is the opinion of someone from the “angry
left”. And I AM angry, a deep burning
anger, because apparently those Republicans have been having SEX and making
stupid decisions while drunk and occasionally being extremist! Which is probably why they are so flipping happy! Damn you! I want drunken, extremist sex, too!
Oh wait, I’m married to a Republican.
Honey, you better start sharing the tequila. (But not until after 90210 is over.)
– the
weirdgirl
I’m married to one of those Republicans, too. There’s some heads being butted around here, too, but I had to tell him to hush it when 90210 came on last night. He can preach his Republican morals to me after I’ve watched fictionalized teens having implied oral sex (Yeah! Abstinence! WOO HOO!) on television, thank you very much!
Do VP’s really do anything? I am highly skeptical.
I’m going to have to start setting my PVR because my name is mothebumper and I’m a teen show addict. Thanks for the heads up.
We avoid political discussions in our house. But teen dramas are fair game. We like teen angst movies too.
FADKOG – We avoid a lot of head butting now because me and the hubby get equally disgusted with politics (they’re all so inefficient!), but we used to head butt A LOT when we first dated.
Evyl – I am too! (I think Palin would try to do things, though, and that scares me.)
Motherbumper – enjoy! Teen dramas are a great guilty pleasure. Did you catch any of “Queen Bees”? OMG!
VegasDad – I love a good teen angst movie! But if the movie wasn’t made before 1992 Keen totally makes fun of me.
I swear, you always make me laugh like a freakin hyena!
wow – i don’t have a shutoff switch for the teen dramas so my tivo list is full of gossip girl/90210/OC reruns i do really miss the veronic mars series – at least i get my KBell fix on GG and heroes.
hell im not above the Hills and sweet 16/Made marathons.
my repub husband totally thinks i’ve lost my marbles. glad to see there are other teen-obsessed gals out there over 30!
i meant teen-obsessed as in teen show obsessed. the clarification was needed!
The only politically-correct term I use is “Native American” (which, as I recall, was the first one).
The problem with the term, “African-American” (other than the fact that no one is “allowed” to call him/herself a “European-American”) is this: It’s an exclusionary term. “African-American” is used only for black people (i.e. people of the Negroid Race). But there are millions of white people (people of the Caucasoid Race) in Africa too–the majority of whom live in North Africa. These white people (of Arabic descent) have lived in Africa tens of thousands of years, just as the black people have.
But white immigrants from North Africa are not “allowed” to call themselves “African-American”. So why should black Americans have that special recognition?
“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” And all politically-correct terms, other than “Native American”, though coined with good intentions, pave the road to Hell.
Political-correctness is usually ethically-incorrect. What’s wrong with “black people” and “white people”? Moreso, what’s wrong with just “Americans”?