“”Celeb” “Dating”" Shows in General
This season of good old-fashioned, quality television brings us more shows with females in the lead and starring roles, including the CelebReality of “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” and “I Love New York: Season 2″. I’ve noticed something interesting about both of these shows despite their female stars, though, especially when compared to “Flavor of Love” and “Rock of Love”. One the women’s dating shows, their male contestants seem to feel a need to manhandle them and assert themselves as alpha male to the other men and to the lead of the show. The men treat the starring woman like she is a prize to be won. The leading men, on the other hand, get treated like sultans with harems, and, while their female contestants will fight with each other to the death, the cater and bow to the guy’s whose affections they are tryign to obtain.
If there is a dominating female character, she gets dump, as was witnessed when New York was dumped by Flava Flav twice.
This phenomenon can be seen all at the same time on A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. The respect level and approach of the females versus the males is astounding. It’s like watching a bunch of animals on National Geographic resort back to instinctual mating rituals. I guess that’s the reason why these guys feel the need to treat their leading ladies like they’ve peed on a tree.
