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Post by chonies on Sept 26, 2012 12:46:58 GMT -4
I watched the first five episodes...I'm horrified but also fascinated. I will say, they do all seem to genuinely love one another and when Honey Boo Boo isn't acting for the cameras, she comes across as thoughtful and polite. I'll show myself out. I actually agree with your assessment: the family seem nice and generally caring, and when they're on shows like Good Morning America, they seem like good sports and definitely perceptive and self-aware. I know there are some reports of criminal backgrounds, but I'm not invested enough in the show to care. As far as the redneck/hillbilly trend, here's one article I found interesting: What Honey Boo Boo says about American Culture |
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Post by margojata on Sept 26, 2012 13:24:03 GMT -4
I hope they have lawyers who can get them some real cash outta this. If you're going to humiliate yourself and your children on TV, you should get paid well since it's a hit.
I'm sure they ham (heh, Glitzy shout out) it up for the cameras, but the problem is that Alana is not old enough to know what's a gag, what's camp. She's holding onto that behavior as, well, the way you behave. Even the older girls are probably not sure what's real and what isn't.
And then add in the cycle of teen pregnancy and obesity, and it's just sad. Too sad to be laughing stocks. They're also not the downfall of society either.
I read today that they're getting more episodes and holiday shows. I just hope poor Honey Boo Boo doesn't OD in about 10 years. That seems to be where these kinds of stories go.
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Post by Mugsy on Sept 27, 2012 10:56:23 GMT -4
I finally broke down and watched a couple of episodes and .... buh. Sweet fancy Moses, what a mess of humanity. Yes, they love each other, but good is that in the face of obesity, diabetes, forklift foot that has bugs crawling out of it, snot falling out of that little girl's nose on camera and no one (where is her mother when she's filming?) gets her a tissue, teen pregnancy, a baby with an extra thumb, etc. etc. The amount of humiliation that these kids are experiencing; I can't imagine what it was like when they went back to school in the fall.
And according to TWOP, because I did wade through that thread somewhat, the daughters have different fathers and three of the four, including the one on the show, have criminal records. Apparently the current dad has a conviction for arson and is a volunteer firefighter, which I didn't think was allowed.
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Post by chonies on Sept 27, 2012 11:11:30 GMT -4
I don't understand what's humiliating about a baby with an extra thumb.
I'm really not defending the show, but what bothers me is the criticism: nearly all critiques of the show mention the mother's weight and her appearance in general, as if she alone were responsible for America's failing science scores, or global warming. God forbid a fat person be on tv for something other than Biggest Loser. Also, I'm inclined to suggest that her size is partially a result of the structural violence against the poor, in which cheap but chemically jacked-up food is wreaking havoc on people's bodies.
I have no way of knowing what TLC producers actually think of the family, but I'm pretty sure the producers decided to set up the family as a joke. A lot of talking heads show random people giving "wtf" interviews, as if the family were soooo weeeeeird. Which, honestly, I don't know if they are.
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Post by LurkerNan on Sept 27, 2012 11:48:13 GMT -4
How long before someone tries to makeover Mama June by offering her free weight loss products ans beauty treatments? Kate Gosselin didn't start out looking like a skinny blonde Hollywood wive, but she sure ended up there.
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Post by chiqui on Sept 27, 2012 13:28:08 GMT -4
OT/ Does the baby still have the extra thumb? Or did it get removed?
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Post by azaleaqueen on Sept 27, 2012 15:09:28 GMT -4
I don't know about the thumb, chiqui. I wondered why they didn't remove it while she was still in the hospital but thought maybe they didn't have insurance that would cover it. But then I thought maybe they could use some of the money from the show to pay for it. They could even include it in an episode. They were talking about it like it somehow made the baby more special so I don't know what they'll do.
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Post by GoldenFleece on Sept 27, 2012 18:51:34 GMT -4
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Post by Neurochick on Sept 28, 2012 8:28:19 GMT -4
I don't understand what's humiliating about a baby with an extra thumb. I'm really not defending the show, but what bothers me is the criticism: nearly all critiques of the show mention the mother's weight and her appearance in general, as if she alone were responsible for America's failing science scores, or global warming. God forbid a fat person be on tv for something other than Biggest Loser. Also, I'm inclined to suggest that her size is partially a result of the structural violence against the poor, in which cheap but chemically jacked-up food is wreaking havoc on people's bodies. I have no way of knowing what TLC producers actually think of the family, but I'm pretty sure the producers decided to set up the family as a joke. A lot of talking heads show random people giving "wtf" interviews, as if the family were soooo weeeeeird. Which, honestly, I don't know if they are. I'm with you on this and I do agree with you about her weight being more because of poverty than anything. When my neighborhood became "gentrified" the supermarkets changed, the food became better and fresher |
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Post by Mugsy on Sept 28, 2012 10:44:30 GMT -4
They have a pretty decent looking truck that they could drive to a real grocery store. It seems they go to the gas station store to buy junk food on a regular basis, just for snacking. And they spend hundreds of dollars (maybe thousands) on pageants, so poverty is not an excuse. They just like lowbrow, fatty, sugary food.
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