"My Fair Wedding"

From looking at so many reality TV shows about weddings I see what Erika Engstrom is talking about when she says a bride is looked at as a physical object. the show Bridal Plasty especially proves her point I believe. These days women forget why they are getting married and are looked at as just objects and not seeing the big picture and that's having a life long partnership with your significant other. The show BridalPlasty I believe is a perfect example.The show is a competition with 12 brides to be who compete for their dream wedding and also a list of plastic surgery procedures to get done before their big day. It's just crazy to me that women will go to this extreme just for that ONE day. They have to be away from their fiances for 4 months. I wouldn't want to be away from the man I love and am about to spend the rest of my life with for that long. What if their fiance doesn't like the way they have transformed?Then what?They are stuck with it. The man is suppose to love you for just the way you are. I know my boyfriend wouldn't like for me to go on a show like this. I wonder if the show interviews the husbands to be their opinions on what their fiances are doing.

It's just entertainment?

Taking a look back at things that we have talked about in the course so far and the one that sticks out most to me is the topic of wrestiling and how it disrepects women. I am a BIG fan of wrestling, or was, i dont't really watch it anymore but I've never noticed how badly women were displayed on the show until now. When I watched it is was funny to me and pure entertainment. Now that I'm older and I look back at some clips of WWE I realize that women were treated as objects and not human beings. I know that seeing barely dressed women and seeing women get thrown around or fighting half dressed is just for entertainment but watching it now is kind of heartbreaking. Women are so much more than that. I believe that wrestling has come a long way and that women are looked at slightly different now in the entertainment business but there will always be that mindset for men I believe that women should be half naked and at ring side supporting their man. That is their role in my eyes and I'm not sure how much of that is going to change.
Below is a clip of just how women are treated in the WWE

Cosmetic surgery

Talking about cosmetic surgery in class opened my eyes up to just how "normal" it is for people to get that kind of surgery done, when before it was looked down upon or only the wealthy could afford it. I believe that having shows that have people getting the surgery done such as Extreme Makeover makes it seem to others that surgery is safe, nothing can go wrong, affordable and that anyone should get it to improve their life. Getting surgery doesn't always make things better and not everyone's surgery goes as planned or expected. I think that it encourages people to get the surgery done without talking about the pain, the money, the aftermath of the surgery or recovery process. They just show a before and after of the surgery. So it kind of plays a mind trick on some people. However there are some shows that do provide that such as Nip/Tuck as we discussed in class. With Nip/Tuck the cosmetic isn't glamorous at all as it may seem like it is in Extreme Makeover. I'm happy that there is a show like Nip/Tuck to show just how gruesome surgery can be even if I may not like to watch it because it would make me sick to my stomach.