GOSH I love "reality" shows.
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Wife Swap, just saw an episode of that that I hadn't seen before.
They're great. All that snark, and sarcasm, and judgmentalism, and it's socially acceptable! I love it. (My first judgment is wondering what sort of person watches these shows and then up and decides it'll be really fun to go on one. Who does that?)
But I've been thinking.
They keep pairing opposites - a REALLY STRICT parent with a REALLY LAX one, say, or a VERY RELIGIOUS one with a NOT RELIGIOUS AT ALL one.
Or occasionally they go for "Really weird with really weird" where they *also* fit one of those dichotomies.
But you know what would be just as funny and equally interesting? If they paired less obvious opposites - a very religious Christian family with a very religious non-Christian family, or a family that follows a very strict homeschool curriculum with a group of unschoolers, that sort of thing.
That would just be funny as heck. Think about it.
They're great. All that snark, and sarcasm, and judgmentalism, and it's socially acceptable! I love it. (My first judgment is wondering what sort of person watches these shows and then up and decides it'll be really fun to go on one. Who does that?)
But I've been thinking.
They keep pairing opposites - a REALLY STRICT parent with a REALLY LAX one, say, or a VERY RELIGIOUS one with a NOT RELIGIOUS AT ALL one.
Or occasionally they go for "Really weird with really weird" where they *also* fit one of those dichotomies.
But you know what would be just as funny and equally interesting? If they paired less obvious opposites - a very religious Christian family with a very religious non-Christian family, or a family that follows a very strict homeschool curriculum with a group of unschoolers, that sort of thing.
That would just be funny as heck. Think about it.
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Date: 2008-07-17 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-17 04:29 am (UTC)Not to mention the poor kids, who are clear failures of unschooling. They're like every negative stereotype of homeschooled kids at once! Terrible social skills, terrible emotional maturity, minimally educated - appalling.
Well, of course, it happens sometimes. Not every homeschooling family can be good at the job, some of them have to be fuck-ups.