Wednesday 9 July 2008

snog, marry avoid?

so I've finished uni and am bumming around the Internet and in my quest for some light entertainment i find this 'snog, marry, avoid' on BBC3.

the premise of the show is to take young woman who wear too much slap and hair extensions etc and make them 'under' revealing the natural beauty.

this is quite a nice premise.

however i think they have taken it a bit too far, apart form the gimmicky 'computer' they have acting as host and cracking terribly bad jokes.

they were make undering a couple of goths, implying that there is something wrong with the way they dress, and fair enough they did volunteer for this os it is hard to be too sympathetic but still the 'jokes' the computer was making were actually quite rude and offensive., all in good 'fun' of course.

and then there was the girl who wore allot of makeup and wore a corset and heels but was overall quite pretty. when her image was put to the public analysis they were asked if she looked like
an arts student (that's performing arts and what she was)
a cruise ship entertainer
or a magicians assistant.

firstly whats wrong with looking like a magicians assistant? it gives cruise ship entertainer or a magicians assistant bad connotations. and also does she really want to look like a arts student anyway would it not be better to cultivate her own look rather than being generic.

also in the public analysis men were asked if they wanted to 'snog, marry or avoid' this girl. in this they showed 3 men who all said avoid, which annoyed me because It was such a small probably bias sampling. one of the men was gay! that was why he said avoid!

overall i felt that the show demeaned those who have their own individuality by ridiculing them and trying to make them more generic. while there were some people who could and did benefit from this process ( a girl spent £1000 a month on hair extensions) the show expanded into unnecessary territory losing viewers and credibility