The Real World: MTV’s 20- Something, Liberal Biased, “Reality”

   

    I have watched the Real-World since Season 1 and even as MTV has descended into skinny jean, materialistic, vapidity…I still watch almost every episode of most seasons.  The past season looks to be my last.  Maybe because now I’m too old to even be on the show and the real worlders seem so young and immature or maybe because MTV hand picks a liberal “melting pot” that marginalizes the conservative minority that they allow on the show.  The discerning viewer, however, is inadvertently treated to a legitimate microcosm of our current society.  I’ll explain this later.

     Take a close look at this past season, which was taped in concurrence with the presidential elections.  MTV cast a gay man (JD), a bisexual woman (Sarah), a transgender it (Katelynn), a black woman (Devyn) and a jaded-antiwar combat vet (Ryan).  Now, without asking their political affiliations, MTV could have reasonably assumed (based on demographics and historical voting trends) that they had five surefire liberals in the house.  Baya was “raised by hippies” so that makes six.  So MTV makes its cast 75% liberal during an election year, surprise surprise.  MTV has been influencing young voters since the Clinton/Bush election.  Interestingly enough, their ‘rock the vote’ campaign always features liberal celebrities encouraging young people to vote.  Anyway, back on the subject.  We are left with two cast members who are conservative republicans and one of them (Chet) seemed to be pegged by producers early on as a closet homosexual waiting for the freedom of NYC to open the door for him.  I bet they were hoping that a liberal conversion would happen but luckily for fans of objectivity, he was only really, really metro.

            MTV decided to edit the election episode so it was completely void of any real political dialogue.  I believe Chet, Scott and Ryan are probably the most intelligent and informed members of the house and I’m assuming (because I heard nothing to the contrary in regards to legitimate political knowledge) that all of the members in the house voted based on the categories they fell in.  Think about it, MTV casts half of its members who have direct interest in election issues (gay marriage/rights and the Iraq War).  Funny, they only cast based on one political view though.  After the election, the liberal cast members were seen dancing through the streets and gloating to their seemingly better informed conservative roommates.  When did elections become Army/Navy football games?  To me, that behavior proved how ignorant the cast members were in regards to politics.  And instead of airing relevant political debate, MTV decided to just glorify the images of the liberal “winners” as sort of visual propaganda to hoards of young people. 

            Now what’s really hypocritical about the liberals on this season’s show was their intolerance of conservative viewpoints.  During the reunion episode, Chet complains that Sarah mocked his religion and often joked about how silly the stories in the Bible were.  How come these same liberals, who want you to be tolerant of sexual deviant supreme Katelynn the trannie, find it acceptable to discount and mock someone’s religion because they don’t agree with it?  They are always whining for everyone else to be accepting of anyone and everyone.  What’s worse is that MTV portrayed Chet as a freak because he is a virgin.  How did that become abnormal and paying tens of thousands of dollars to have your genitals mutilated in a third world country is to be accepted as normal because IT is finally expressing itself?  Now you will argue that I’m just being biased but I think I’m a reasonable barometer.  I’m not a hard line Christian or transgender…I just use the common sense test.  If I was completely center in regards to all moral and social issues, and my children could either be influenced far left or far right…I would pick far right.  Why?  Because I’d rather them subscribe to a religion that is founded on principles that abstains from behaviors destructive to the individual and society than far left principles that celebrate depraved sexual deviance.  I’m simply reporting what I saw.  Katelynn itself, in a bid to gain acceptance, claimed to participate in a transgender “five some”.  Anyone who doesn’t think that’s destructive and deviant behavior probably visited the same “genital artist” in Thailand as Katelynn.   So, MTV makes it wrong to think that being transgender is wrong, but they make it acceptable to mock religion.

All of this is ok though, as now I will relate the ultimate microcosm because in one episode we were treated to a serendipitous display of the liberal/conservative dynamic.  When Katelynn is running out of money, it tries to gain financial stability by getting drunk and rubbing its vile man butt on unwitting straight, drunk men in poorly lit clubs across New York City.  When this money making venture falls short, ‘it’ is left with no decision but to leave the house.  That’s where hardworking, self motivated, fiscally conservative and responsible Scott comes in.  He “redistributes his wealth” to liberal Katelynn to the tune of $1,500 which allows her to stay on the show.  Katelynn then, in the true fashion of failing corrupt liberal social programs, squanders “its” entitlements playing black jack in Atlantic City.  I couldn’t have written it better myself MTV.