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If we’re watching ‘Flavor of Love,’ and we’re watching people of color being treated in a way where the men are alternately fools and buffoons or violent thugs, pimps and criminals, and the women are being treated as ignorant, hypersexual, crazy, illiterate bitches, whores and ghetto sluts – all terms used on those shows – and we think it’s funny, there are sociological and socio-political reasons why that comes off as funny to people and that does have to do with deep-seated social beliefs about race in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Author Jennifer L. Pozner on The Troubling Truth About Reality TV<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, check Pozner’s YouTube Channel, \u201cReality Rehab\u201d<\/a>, described by Ms Magazine Blog<\/a> as<\/p>\n

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[…]a media literacy project that borrows you-can\u2019t-make-this-stuff-up dialogue and scenes from reality TV shows (\u201cI would be a servant to you\u201d). In each webisode, \u201cDr. Jenn\u201d helps one of reality TV\u2019s most persistent stock characters (\u201cThe Slutty Bitch,\u201d \u201cThe Angry Black Woman,\u201d \u201cThe Top Model,\u201d \u201cThe Real Housewife\u201d) break out of his or her stereotype. After completing a stint in Reality Rehab, which combines \u201cmedia literacy therapy\u201d with \u201cconfessional cam\u201d monologues,the characters emerge fully-dimensional human beings once more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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