People are getting pretty rilled up about MTV’s newest exploitative fun hour!
The Jersey Shore is basically The Real World, but all the housemates are Italian-American, self-proclaimed “guidos” and “guidettes.” They have greasy hair, fake tans, and nicknames! All-and-all, nothing too exciting as far as we’re concerned, but some other folks are in an effin uproar over it!
Protesters are calling the show “controversial” and are implementing a boycott. The Italian-American group UNICO has asked members to complain to MTV’s advertisers and there is even some talk about MTV producers receiving death threats!
Jeez! Cool your jets, people! It’s just a TV show!
Obviously, it’s not, and New York Post critic Linda Stasi decided to blast the show on Monday to prove that point:
“(‘Jersey Shore‘ furthers) the popular TV notion that Italian-Americans are gel-haired, thuggish ignoramuses with fake tans, no manners, no diction, no taste, no education, no sexual discretion, no hairdressers (for sure), no real knowledge of Italian culture and no ambition beyond expanding steroid- and silicone-enhanced bodies. Would that programing ever have been allowed if the group were African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Jewish people?”
Probably not, but that doesn’t make the show wrong. We’d like to quote Spencer Pratt via his Twitter, if we may:
“Linda Stasi you should change your name to Linda Boring if you can’t be entertained by young Italian-Americans enjoying youth and partying!”
And besides, this is all for nothing anyway. The show only got 1.4 million viewers. It’s going nowhere fast! The more you all talk about it, the more likely it will STAY on the air.
So just SHUT UP!