Thursday, February 23, 2012

Biggest Loser is the Loser

This season of the Biggest Loser became a very ugly social experiment. It is all over the internet.
I have never seen so many fans of a show feel the same way.
Many are calling for a boycott of the sponsors.
The casting of this show was part of the problem but everyone involved in the show seemed to want to promote this *drama*.
The editing seemed to want to show this nastiest side of the contestants.
The trainers have even become part of the train wreck.

This type of behavior has been on other reality shows.
(Russell on Survivor being the most obvious).
This type of behavior has been shown in the past on even The Biggest Loser (Vicki and Heba) but not to this extent where the mob mentality, sense of entitlement, lack of empathy, and bullying has become so rampart.
This scenario was allowed and promoted from the first week when Conda sent the guy home who said something about her brother she didn't like. Imagine how Ms. Santa has been treated this whole season. She wanted to go home almost from the beginning and tried to mend fences with the immature males on her team but was treated with total disrespect. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how emotionally broken the bullies are and this show should have tried to mend them to enable successful weightloss and should have protected their victims.

Wonder how it will feel when these people go home for real and see how disliked they were. Hope they find the psychological help they need to become healthier, mentally and physically. Scarier yet, a couple of the worse of them are already young parents and their children will be affected. Moreso, hope the people who were there for the right reasons continue to be successful.

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