Reality television has affected my life very little because my mother, bless her heart, has forbid me from watching it ever since it became popular. Granted, as I grew older I easily could have gone against her orders and watched Judge Judy, Teen Mom or The Bachelorette, but I never. It never made sense to me the appeal of such shows, they are much more drama filled than my reality or even most TV dramas on now. I have no desire to succumb to the trash that is reality television. I do not put myself in situations where everyone is sweaty, drunk and for some unknown reason mad, so why in the world would I want to watch it on television. Nor have I ever decided to date twenty random men at once just to find "the one" and I certainly don't put stock in that method of finding love; therefore, I don't have any desire to watch a show about it.
I know that the young women of Teem Mom really did have children way too early in their lives and that it did make most things more difficult for them, but I find it so incredibly difficult to believe that their life now revolves around fighting, crying and drinking alcohol. I do recognize that if a true reality show was ever to be created, no one would want to watch as I brushed my teeth, napped, watched movies, and maybe did some homework, but then why is it even called reality television? Which I suppose leads me to the largest problem I have with reality television: The name is a lie, its more like "overly dramatized lives of people with problems," but that just isn't very catchy.
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