
I am getting really freakin’ tried of hearing from this Parents Television Council, aka The-Ultra-Conservative-I-Have-No-Life-So-I-Want-To-Make-Everyone-Else’s-Miserable Club.
Their most recent rant is in response to the racy Gossip Girl ads advertising a “3Some” on next weeks issue. OMG! A threesome?! What sick bastard could possibly have come up with this storyline? No Twenty-something’s engage in this sort of promiscuous activity in real life!
Give me a break. First of all, this group may have had an ounce of a point when the characters were in high school, but they are in college now, people. You know that time in life when you do whatever you want without your parents breathing down your neck and shielding your eyes from all that devilish sex going on?
Second of all, nothing about Gossip Girl is realistic. Any kid with half a brain realizes that you don’t leave bio class to get a martini at the Ritz and then shoot over to Bergdorf’s and buy a pair of $5,000 Manolo’s while your boyfriend is getting an after school tutoring session from a prostitute. This would be called fiction, something all of your children learned in elementary school. Although it seems that you must have been daydreaming during that lesson.
Third of all, if you don’t want your kids seeing it, then turn off the stupid TV! Do you not own a remote? Stop trying to shut the show off for the entire country when you can simply click the off button and torture only your own (unfortunate) kids.
Us college girls have a really hard life. We stay up studying all night long, sit through classes all day, run to internships and attempt to fit in a social life, all when trying to figure out what the heck we are going to do with the rest of our lives. Stop trying to take away the one hour a week we have to completely indulge ourselves in the Gossip Girl fantasy world and a glass of wine. We like sex. We like catfights. We like the completely unattainable fashion.
And most of all: we can’t wait to find out which three characters will be going at it next Monday night. So go chain your kids to a chair in front of Sponge Bob reruns and leave our guilty pleasure alone!



Casey says:
Thu, 5th Nov 20095:29 pm
Ha I would actually rather my kids watch Gossip Girl than sponge bob.
Slap Chops says:
Thu, 5th Nov 20098:13 pm
“had an ounce of a point when the characters were in high school, but they are in college now,”
Yeah, and the entire audience must now be composed of 20 something idiots as well. The old ladies who made these ads aren’t forcing anybody to quit watching the show0 they know just as well as anybody else that the FCC won’t pull the show. The CW is a tweeny station and if this group wants to make extra double secret probation sure that parents know what their impressionable little 14 year old princess is watching, is that not okay?
Was this rant written by a freshman? It’s full of fail. Maybe the author is the one that needs to STFU.
Krissy says:
Thu, 5th Nov 200910:38 pm
I agree with slap chops. The CW is aimed at teens and “tweens” and I definitely wouldn’t want my 13 year old watching it. I think parents definitely have the right to decide what they’re PAYING for and what their children are watching. Why wouldn’t they?
Nora says:
Fri, 6th Nov 200912:08 am
Krissy – you pay for the CW? I thought it was a free channel for everyone…
Nikki says:
Fri, 6th Nov 20091:40 am
i agree w/u Brianna. trying to pull the episode is ridiculous. the show is FICTION and if a kid doesn’t have the sense to differentiate between that kind of entertainment onscreen and what’s appropriate offscreen then all the parents need to do is turn it off, not try to have it removed altogether. (ots: melrose place &90210 are similar shows on the same channel &the latter is about hs kids!)
if anything, i’ll agree with just having the ad pulled/censored. the network can post those ads online &leave the PG ads for tv. getting rid of the episode tho? unnecessary.
Lindsay says:
Fri, 6th Nov 200910:25 am
even if it does get pulled, that’s not going to stop younger audiences from reading the books- which are pretty racy as it is.
Krissy says:
Fri, 6th Nov 200910:41 am
I pay for my satellite bill, so yeah. & I agree, there are parental controls that parents can use, the episode doesn’t need to be pulled. But I absolutely thing that the Parents Television Council doesn’t need to “STFU”. They have a right to complain, just like everyone else. And if they didn’t complain, some parents wouldn’t even know to make sure their kid isn’t watching the show.
Marianella says:
Fri, 6th Nov 20092:40 pm
Not only is the author right and you guys need to stop bitching about her, but Krissy stop being so stupid. CW is a free channel, if you didn’t have that fancy satellite of yours, you’d still be getting it.
Casey says:
Fri, 6th Nov 20094:47 pm
I don’t know if this is still how it’s done, but when we were younger TV shows were paid for by the companies who advertised during commercial breaks, and the product placements in the shows, so the shows are essentially paid for by the consumers of those products (some TV might be free, but the shows certainly aren’t free to make)
That being said, if the parents that don’t approve of the show buy the products that pay for the show, then yes, they are “PAYING for it”.
But while it sucks that there are people out there petitioning/ protesting, or whatever it is they are doing, against one of our favorite shows, it is their right defined by our constitution.
But I disagree with the statement, “the author is right”, cause, not really. The author says any kid with half a brain could figure out that the show is not reality, but depending on the age of the kids that are stumbling upon this show, kids are very impressionable, they think what they see is real because they can’t yet differentiate between real and imaginary, (imaginary friends, hello?) which is why you don’t show your young children horror movies.
There was an article on here a week or so ago about Miley Cyrus’s little sister dressing “skanky”, and well it’s the same concept. The younger kids want to do what the older kids are doing.
Whoever made the point that even though, like the author says, the characters are no longer in high school, but some of the viewing audience might be, is right. The show only started 2 years ago, and while the characters have gone through what 4 years, their lives move a lot faster on screen then the viewers do in real life. If someone started watching a show about high schoolers when they were a freshman in high school or an 8th grader going into high school, then those people are still in high school right now, viewing a show that has changed a lot.
Now, I don’t think this show was never really meant for high school students, but when it first started that’s how it appeared so parents may have let their kids start watching it, now they don’t like where it’s headed and instead of telling their own children they can’t watch it (because parent’s really don’t know how to parent anymore) they are going after the show, THAT I don’t agree with, but it’s still their right to do it if they want.
Jill says:
Sat, 7th Nov 20099:59 am
How is this show still on the air????? It gets shitty ratings. Not even 2 million viewers an episode. Look it up.
Casey says:
Mon, 9th Nov 200910:13 pm
Ha ha ha! So the episode just ended and I’m not sure if they cut parts out due to the outrage about the episode, but that was a LAME threesome! First of all it was between Dan, Vanessa, and Olivia and all it showed was them sitting in a circle making out with each other and then at the very end of the episode it showed the three of them sleeping in a bed together. OMG let’s all cover our children’s eyes!
But the major slap in the face to the PTC is next weeks episode which seems to revolve around the CONSEQUENCES of a threesome (and all those parents thought the show was immoral)
I just had to laugh when the ep. was over.
Kyle says:
Tue, 24th Nov 20095:35 pm
Actually, when you pay for your cable or satellite service, you are paying for the service from your provider (i.e. DirecTV putting $20m a pop satellites in the air and all their support staff to run the service). Advertisers pay for the actual channels. If you paid for the channels, there would be no advertising (such as satellite radio). And if you’re using DirecTV, use parental controls. Trying to imply you know what’s good for every person in America is a little extreme. Your parental ideals and theories are not the same as everybody else. So yes, I encourage you to use your parental controls to control what YOUR kids watch, not trying to take down entire shows or networks simply because you don’t like them.
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