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Simple and straightforward question: when did you become disenchanted and/or unable to relate to popular culture? This could be a certain age or period in time.
I realize this won't apply to everyone, so I'm only interested in those that can relate to the question.
Simple and straightforward question: when did you become disenchanted and/or unable to relate to popular culture? This could be a certain age or period in time.
I realize this won't apply to everyone, so I'm only interested in those that can relate to the question.
When the rap/hip hop stuff came out. When the young white guys began dressing and talking like uneducated blacks. The pants down around the a$$. the wiggers. the "wassup dawg?" when this became the trendy teenage form of rebellion.
OK...I admit I am a middle-aged white guy. (Gee, could ya tell? LOL) So, when I was in high school it was long hair and rock and roll that was our rebellion. This made sense! Hell, it still does! But I could never get into that whole hip/hop gangsta thing. Then again. I don't think I was in the demographic the purveyors of that culture were aiming for. LOL.
A newer trend that has put me off too, but not as much, is how it has become fashionable to be dentition-challenged, brain-dead, bearded, under-educated, fat hick. You know, a Hillbilly. Witness these reality shows: Duck Dynasty (really?); the Cajun wars, or whatever its called. The Bayou stuff. Crocodile wrestlers. Wow.
Oh..what is worse, what my current most loathsome trend is? Those real housewives! LOL. Dim, over-privileged, greedy, mean, narcissistic gold-digger women (and those are their GOOD points! LOL). Who when they were, like 14 years old realized that they could have a very opulent and comfortable life by basically selling that fuzzy little thing they sit on everyday! Sell out as in marry a man who they dont really love but can keep them in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. And to which they very absurdly mistakenly think they deserve. We have another word for these women. It' is shorter than "housewife" by half. It begins with a "w." Three guesses! LOL.
these women, those shows, are wrong on so many levels. Well, in ONE aspect they ARE right. In that they portray on several levels much of what is wrong with society today. The most injurious aspect of them is the poor, the dreadful example they set to young women. Good Lord, these housewives, these, Twits, become role models to some young girls. See, a 14 y.o. girl wonders what to achieve to; to do with her life. Well, she sees a female politician, maybe. And thinks, "Naw too hard; I cant't be THAT!" Or sees a female scientist. "No...too hard, too much math--I can't be THAT!" Or an athlete. Too hard! Waaah!
Oh! But one of those housewives? They see them and exclaim, "Wow! I could be THIS! Why work for a living?"
Disgusting and sad. Somebody from the 50s watching these shows would surely think the world had Lost It's Collective Mind, And was immersed in a version of Hell.
OK! Whew! thanks, I'll hop down off my soap box now. (that felt good!)
And I stand by every. single. word. And welcome ANY arguments on it. Please! Try me. I'll be looking forward to it.
I completely lost interest in the late 1990s...reality television turned me off, I think. If everyone's a celebrity, where's the glamour or mystique in showbiz anymore? I'm more into artsy, fringe, indie stuff at this point than mainstream pop culture. Whatever pop culture is at this point, I don't seem to have much of a sense of it.
Around the time "reality" TV became a thing. Which, coincidentally or not, was around my late teens. I went from being a celeb gossip hound to not caring one bit. I can't remember the last time I bought or even wanted to peruse a People magazine.
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When the rap/hip hop stuff came out. When the young white guys began dressing and talking like uneducated blacks. The pants down around the a$$. the wiggers. the "wassup dawg?" when this became the trendy teenage form of rebellion.
OK...I admit I am a middle-aged white guy. (Gee, could ya tell? LOL) So, when I was in high school it was long hair and rock and roll that was our rebellion. This made sense! Hell, it still does! But I could never get into that whole hip/hop gangsta thing. Then again. I don't think I was in the demographic the purveyors of that culture were aiming for. LOL.
A newer trend that has put me off too, but not as much, is how it has become fashionable to be dentition-challenged, brain-dead, bearded, under-educated, fat hick. You know, a Hillbilly. Witness these reality shows: Duck Dynasty (really?); the Cajun wars, or whatever its called. The Bayou stuff. Crocodile wrestlers. Wow.
Oh..what is worse, what my current most loathsome trend is? Those real housewives! LOL. Dim, over-privileged, greedy, mean, narcissistic gold-digger women (and those are their GOOD points! LOL). Who when they were, like 14 years old realized that they could have a very opulent and comfortable life by basically selling that fuzzy little thing they sit on everyday! Sell out as in marry a man who they dont really love but can keep them in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. And to which they very absurdly mistakenly think they deserve. We have another word for these women. It' is shorter than "housewife" by half. It begins with a "w." Three guesses! LOL.
these women, those shows, are wrong on so many levels. Well, in ONE aspect they ARE right. In that they portray on several levels much of what is wrong with society today. The most injurious aspect of them is the poor, the dreadful example they set to young women. Good Lord, these housewives, these, Twits, become role models to some young girls. See, a 14 y.o. girl wonders what to achieve to; to do with her life. Well, she sees a female politician, maybe. And thinks, "Naw too hard; I cant't be THAT!" Or sees a female scientist. "No...too hard, too much math--I can't be THAT!" Or an athlete. Too hard! Waaah!
Oh! But one of those housewives? They see them and exclaim, "Wow! I could be THIS! Why work for a living?"
Disgusting and sad. Somebody from the 50s watching these shows would surely think the world had Lost It's Collective Mind, And was immersed in a version of Hell.
OK! Whew! thanks, I'll hop down off my soap box now. (that felt good!)
And I stand by every. single. word. And welcome ANY arguments on it. Please! Try me. I'll be looking forward to it.
I'm with you on the whole "Redneck is the New Black" thing going on. It's just so bad. #whitetrashvogue. I'm guilty of watching some of the Housewife franchise. It's so "ratchet" it's good.(in a guilty pleasure kind of way)
I'm with you on the whole "Redneck is the New Black" thing going on. It's just so bad. #whitetrashvogue. I'm guilty of watching some of the Housewife franchise. It's so "ratchet" it's good.(in a guilty pleasure kind of way)
"Guilty Pleasure" means it's pleasurable in some way. How in the world is the Housewife franchise "pleasurable?" I find it, and other shows like it, flat out sickening.
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