Jersey Shore

Jersey Shores seems to be everybody’s guilty pleasure. I know it is certainly mine. I love watching those crazy “guidos” up to their latest shenanigans. However, on the same token, it is interesting to see how the drink culture of young adults has become entertainment. When Snookie got punched by a drunk guy at the bar, all MTV did was black out the scene and put out a brief message about violence in the beginning. Not once did they address the fact that this event came about because a man was grossly intoxicated. So a show the feature almost always drunk kids hooking up and acting out, what message should we take from Jersey Shore. Sure half of what they do is ridiculous. Jwoww beat up half the girls in Seaside County and Mike “the situation” got the other halves phone numbers. What is MTV trying to tell us about the youth today. I know that this is a show created to entertain, but honestly, it is a reality show. How realistic is it that these characters had seemingly no substance to them and only further perpetuated hurtful stereotypes about a culture. We saw fist fights, arguments, binge drinking, indiscriminate hook ups, and that’s only the beginning of the list. While this may be a guilty pleasure, it also does offer some food for thought. Is this really how we want our generation defined? We are the generation of “reality” tv. How realistic is our reality? Jersey Shore does little to inspire hope for the future of our generation. I honestly wonder, what is my part in all of this? Though we watch this from the couches of our college apartments, do we play a role in a generation defined by drinking in excess and not caring about our sexual partners? MTV certainly has us believing that this behavior is in some way a norm, a standard for people our age. That doesn’t inspire much confidence. While taking this all in, might we remember that this is nothing more than television?