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People just loooooove making connections between TV and human behavior, don't they? (Full disclosure, I eat this shiz up.) Between the political preferences that your TiVo allegedly reveal and the fact that Law & Order makes you fat, it seems turning on your tube is a fraught endeavor these days. 'Course this is nothing new, but it sure seems like the conspiracy theorists that propagate these myths are coming out of the woodwork of late to make us afraid to tune in to our favorite shows. Maybe they're just feeling left out cuz they can't afford to upgrade to digital in February? Who the hell knows.
The latest "report" to be released links teenage pregnancy and shows like Gossip Girl that depict "risque" sexual situations. OK, I love me some GG and will fight for it to the death. If we're going to make sweeping generalizations, who's to say that the connections lie simply in the fact that people who watch Gossip Girl are with-it, sexy young things who just get laid more than the chaste little angels who don't?
I'll admit, last night's episode did feature a teen sex double-whammy, what with Blair's young charge who was dead set on losing her V-card lest her frenemy Muffy Something-Or-Other beat her to the proverbial punch. And let's not forget young Jenny Humphrey, who I'm loving more and more each week the more she turns into a platinum-haired trainwreck. But since when is being fifteen and snogging your older bro's hot friend a crime?
The truth is that if the young folks who watch Sex and the City (in syndication of course) and Gossip Girl are so susceptible to the alleged moral messages that these shows are putting forth, there'd also be an uptick in the sale of ridiculously expensive footwear and suites at The Palace. These sorts of shows may or may not glorify sexual promiscuity, but they do so not without some eye to the repercussions of such actions. And anyway, the more these sorts of ideas and behaviors enter the mainstream, the more a dialogue is opened up, so that issues that were once the whispered stuff of girls' bathrooms and rec rooms are now topics of discussion. That can only be a good thing.
Teen pregnancy has been around since teens have existed. Sure, it's not necessarily the best path for everyone on a personal and a financial level, but it's not going away anytime soon. In some ways the most realistic things about these shows is their depiction of teens with active sex lives. After all, not everyone can afford Hermes luggage and a standing reservation at Le Bernardin, but we've all got the equipment to go to the bone yard.
What do you think? Are shows like Gossip Girl chipping away at the moral fiber of our nation's teen population? Or should the experts behind these studies take a long walk off a short dock?
I'll admit, last night's episode did feature a teen sex double-whammy, what with Blair's young charge who was dead set on losing her V-card lest her frenemy Muffy Something-Or-Other beat her to the proverbial punch. And let's not forget young Jenny Humphrey, who I'm loving more and more each week the more she turns into a platinum-haired trainwreck. But since when is being fifteen and snogging your older bro's hot friend a crime?
The truth is that if the young folks who watch Sex and the City (in syndication of course) and Gossip Girl are so susceptible to the alleged moral messages that these shows are putting forth, there'd also be an uptick in the sale of ridiculously expensive footwear and suites at The Palace. These sorts of shows may or may not glorify sexual promiscuity, but they do so not without some eye to the repercussions of such actions. And anyway, the more these sorts of ideas and behaviors enter the mainstream, the more a dialogue is opened up, so that issues that were once the whispered stuff of girls' bathrooms and rec rooms are now topics of discussion. That can only be a good thing.
Teen pregnancy has been around since teens have existed. Sure, it's not necessarily the best path for everyone on a personal and a financial level, but it's not going away anytime soon. In some ways the most realistic things about these shows is their depiction of teens with active sex lives. After all, not everyone can afford Hermes luggage and a standing reservation at Le Bernardin, but we've all got the equipment to go to the bone yard.
What do you think? Are shows like Gossip Girl chipping away at the moral fiber of our nation's teen population? Or should the experts behind these studies take a long walk off a short dock?
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Actually, this is the first one of these kind of studies that makes sense to me. It isn't just talking about shows like Gossip Girl, it's also sitcoms like Friends. I can see how those shows give kids the idea that casual sex with whomever you can get it with is just the norm. (On sitcoms particularly, the possible negative outcomes of sex are not shown that much.) But then, that's just another reason why parents should know what their kids watch and use them to create an open dialogue about sex which is, as you say, a good thing.
Before I started watching Gossip Girl, I wanted to be a doctor. Now I just want to wear headbands and have casual sex in the back of limos. xoxo
Except on last night's Gossip Girl, Blair gave a speech on the importance of holding out for the right guy, and the girl decided to stay a virgin. I don't think that this show promotes promiscuity any more than most shows ever have. Remember Jen and Abbey from Dawson's Creek? Rayanne and Jordan from My So-Called Life? That's about as far back as I go, but people have been having sex and it has been cool for awhile on TV.
I hate these kinds of surveys because they present the information as if it is a CAUSAL relationship, when in reality that is not the case. Sure there may be a higher CORRELATION between watching these kinds of shows and teen pregnancy but it doesn't CAUSE it. And honestly, correlational studies are considered to be pretty weak because there is most likely some kind of third variable that plays into the findings.
And they said my degree in psych wouldn't get me anything...take that naysayers!
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