Lo Castro's Lowdown: The reality behind reality TV

So I was watching a guilty pleasure of mine last night: “The Bachelor.”
Yes, I know. How could any human being actually waste 60 minutes of their life watching some good-looking British guy get molested and assaulted by a bunch of hopeless, desperate 20 and 30 somethings?
It was rough, I tell you. Reality shows can be as unfulfilling as a liquid diet if you’re watching them for all the wrong reasons. (Men, feel free to consult any female you may run into to explain that metaphor.)
Now, I would assume, being a woman  myself,  would venture to guess that most females watch the show to gain some type of emotional gratification.

It’s nice to wistfully wish you were one of the 90 lb. women being whisked away to some exotic sweltering island for a romantic dinner date – especially when he’s a half-naked man who has enough money to actually buy the island you’re on. However, I watch the show for a completely different reason: lack of inhibition. If you thought the scene from “Superbad” was outrageous when Evan was in the bedroom with Becca and she ended up throwing up, I suggest you tune into an episode of “The Bachelor.” Guys, this includes you.

Let me give you a quick rundown of what happened on the premiere episode a couple weeks ago:

Girl gets drunk.
Girl babbles incoherently.
Girl sticks her white lacy panties down the Bachelor’s pants.
Girl then passes out on a randomly placed mattress in one of the off-set bathrooms.

Now, the question I asked myself (after I wondered if the panties were actually clean or not) was how much personal respect must a woman lack to let herself be viewed on national TV as an idiot.
I’m willing to bet it’s around the same amount of respect the guy who pooped in skateboarder Rob Dyrdek’s swimming pool has for abiding by cultural sanitary norms. (Search “Rob and Big: Pool Poop episode on YouTube for further reference.) Looks like he has something in common with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

And for as much as female activists fight to have the same rights as males, they belittle and degrade themselves only more. Women are digging themselves into a larger ditch, and it’s one full of breast implants and Trimspa.
And it’s not the media’s fault. The actions of these women are merely a catalyst to how others choose to exploit them.
But I guess these instances merely reflect real world occurrences. Sometimes it’s hard to believe the stupid stuff people are willing to do in front of the whole world (Prime examples: Steve-O, K-Fed and Flava Flav.)

 And although many would argue that much of reality TV and its characters are scripted, I’d have to make a conjecture that not every single word or idea is actually scripted.

I believe that much of what is shown on TV is the actual undertaking of the person.
So with that said, I think it’s safe to say that if American society continues to showcase brainless, uninformed and salacious citizens, our country will have far bigger problems than war, global warming and mullets.