GOSSIP GIRLS? !??!?

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GOSSIP GIRLS? !??!?
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Thu, 09-20-2007 - 1:58pm

Has anyone seen the new WB Show - Gossip Girls?

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Registered: 08-17-2005
Fri, 09-21-2007 - 11:39am

For somebody who didn't want to offend, you have said a great deal of offensive things to me, including that I am an American who would rather see people blown up than see someone get "blown".

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Registered: 12-18-2006
Fri, 09-21-2007 - 12:28pm

Oh, I'm not the first person to make a comment like the one I made, about having heads blown off as opposed to being blown. I read it about the film 'Love Actually', which was a fantastic film. Nudity and sex is a lot more accepted in my society. Aussies are pretty irreverent; we don't really give a stuff about others' opinions, although we respect your right to have them.

I didn't see anyone give blow jobs in the episode I watched, and nobody's given one in the books yet. If you want to see that, watch the first episode of 'Californication'.

I am not a voyeur; I have not even looked at porn by choice. As in, I've looked up at my guy friends' laptop screens at sleepovers (yep, boy-girl) and seen something I didn't want to see. Yes, I've had the opportunity. So if I'm reading these books and watching these shows, how come I'm still a virgin? How come I'm still yet to get drunk? I mean, according to a lot of people that's all teens do. You ask why. I say those are the stupid choices they make.

My view is that everyone has a choice. We can influence others' choices, but... they're still our choices in the end.

The Gossip Girl characters are based on rich kids, who do behave this way. The author attended a single-gender private school (the Nightingale-Bamford School) like the characters in the novels do (Constance Billard) in New York City. This is life for some people. It doesn't mean it should be life for your children. Something tells me Cecily von Ziegesar wrote from her own experiences, though!

By the way, speaking adult-to-adult - it's all very mature of you to say because of what I've said, you'll be starting a letter-writing campaign. Regressed, have you? Charming.

Good on the mother who watches it with her daughter, and thank you for mentioning Dawson's Creek because that was without a doubt the best show ever made.

BTW, the actress who plays Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) is fourteen.

I'm of the belief that you do not interfere with another person's children. So we'll agree to disagree. If my relatives had assisted in my upbringing, I would be an axe murderer by now, because my relatives are mental.




Edited 9/21/2007 12:33 pm ET by abbag1rl
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Fri, 09-21-2007 - 1:35pm

mom_dragonfly isn't the only one you offended by your statements.

 

 

 

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Registered: 07-19-2003
Fri, 09-21-2007 - 2:44pm

Okay so it was out of line and offensive to make those remarks of Americans.

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Registered: 11-13-2004
Fri, 09-21-2007 - 5:20pm

So much of TV is just an escapist illusion of reality, which is problematic for younger teens.


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Registered: 03-06-2006
Fri, 09-21-2007 - 6:56pm

I must say, I was a bit puzzled by you having such a strong reaction to something that wasn’t directed at you personally.

 

 

 

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Registered: 07-19-2003
Fri, 09-21-2007 - 8:46pm

Ah but see drinking,

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Registered: 09-29-2004
Sat, 09-22-2007 - 10:46am

With all due respects, who cares? These shows are NOT high drama designed to teach important life shows. I like a little escapism like the next person. As a grad student, I would read People magazine to "boob" out but these shows have to be put into prospective.

Do these teens really suffer the true consequences of their actions in these shows? If they did, NO ONE WOULD WATCH THEM. They are after all entertainment,pure and simple. Every thing is ALWAYS nicely resolved in a show or two. If these shows really want to "instruct", let's see a show populated with characters that you could see walking in the halls of real-life high schools. Gee, let us see an over-weight boy with pimples not treated like a goof or the "best friend" in some of these shows. Come to think of it,there is a show that it is not "glossy" or set in "cool" place with extremely attractive characters. It's called Degrassi. But,of course, very few people watch it because it is not "Hollywood". And, even that show, is still entertainment. in a few years ago, they will be forgotten.

I agree with the previous poster; his summary on the sociological impact on such shows on young minds was extremely good. It showed a very insightful understanding on brain development. If adults want to watch these shows, that's up to them. Personally, I find them boring. They should however not be shown in prime time, when young teens can watch them. Why? Because young teens based what they think is important, what they think will make them acceptable in their peer groups, from these shows. The shows feed the peer group culture, which loops back to teens' values. The two feed into each other. They do as they "see", not what they are "told".

As for that young Aussie teen's comment about Americans, it speaks directly how life in the US is shown in the mass media. That young girl is only 19;she is mostly likely an average kid influenced heavily by mass culture. How else is she going to judge what the average American is really like? A friend of mine told me that when he first came over here from Russia, he was disappointed and confused. He thought everyone lived like the characters in that show Dallas. Boy, was he shocked!

Many Americans have just as distorted views as to what Aussies, Canadians, French,Brits.... are truly like just as us Canadians do and Aussies and the French ..do. Instead of being upset at this young women, perhaps we should all be concern on how the mass media portrays all of our lives. We should perhaps be concerned how poor the education ALL young people are receiving now in Cultural Geography and world issues (from the other's guys POV as well.)

As for the comment on censorship, EVERY society has a certain amount of censorship in order to safe-guard its values. It is a collective decision codified in their laws and customs. NO one,even in a democratic society, is free to say and do whatever they want.
A democracy is rule by majority as we in Ontario will again discover in three weeks. (That young Aussie girl needs a lesson in democracy as well as a serious lesson on Sharia Law and what women's liberation really means. But she is young,just an average kid. She can be excused for her lack of mature insight. That takes time.)

By the way, the more I frequent these boards, the more I realize how unusual my kids are.
My 19-year-old would not have anything in common with that Aussie girl. She wouldn't be caught dead reading something like "Gossip Girl".

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Registered: 07-19-2003
Sat, 09-22-2007 - 1:49pm

Okay soyour dd won't "dare" be caught dead reading something like Gossip Girl.

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Sun, 09-23-2007 - 8:32am




I'm getting into this thread late, but I have to say Diamond, I agree with you.