Watch Yo'self
I was watching Parental Control with Whitley the other night, and prior to that I had never seen the show.
Holy shitrocks, I was trippppppppin afterwards. If you're not familiar with the show, it's about parents who have a son/daughter, and they just so happen to hate his/her boyfriend/girlfriend. Are you still with me? Okay, nothing new there, but they go on these recruiting trips to find an ideal partner. So moms picks one, and dad picks another. Wait, it gets better. So they set up these dates with their kid with their "ideal" partners. No wait, even more better, they watch the "dates" with the skanky boyfriend/girlfriend.
So here's where I stop in my tracks and ask myself, "Who does THAT!" (if you've ever watched Workout, you'll recognize that line from the Glass Throwing Incident).
See, it's not the weirdness of the whole witness the dating that gets me, it's the "You know what, you're a bitch!" stuff that goes on. Not from the boyfriend to the girlfriend, but the skanky current girlfriend/boyfriend to the parents! WHO DOES THAT!
Okay, okay, I'm going to admit that I've met my share of jacked up people, but I have never gone buckwild on them. Throughout the show, this one in particular, this girl cussed out the parents left and right. Seriously. Whitley says to me, hey, what if I did that to your parents when I first met them? We howled. I'd probably deck you, I said.
But for reals, what's going on here? At the risk of sounding like a total Oldie Olderson, these kids freak me the fuck out. Working at a Big School, I always ask myself where this comes from - nature or nurture. I'm not going to get into a big debate over it. But you have to wonder, don't you? I guess the Filipino parent stink eye taught me to not get out of line.
It's disturbing enough to know that kids these days (wow, that sounded crap) have gumption, but for every rotten apple there are a few shiny good ones. So when I saw skanky girl running her mouth (I won't even repeat the stuff she said), I knew that out there somewhere was a decent person who would be a promising person. Contributing member of society rather than a funky scab.
Oh and by the way, the son stayed with skanky girl. Ew. I don't know who to blame for that.
Voodoo
Comments
Well, you have many parents now-a-days who would rather be their child's "friend" rather than their "parent." To me, I think that's where confusion begins - you lose that fine line of structure, security and discipline. It's not like you have to always be this hard-ass parent though. Just as long as they know you're the adult. Gosh, how scary, huh? Hopefully Pops and I keep up with the force =0)
Posted by: Mama Toots | October 20, 2006 12:07 PM
I saw one where the daughter picked someone new. the bf cussed out the girl and the parents and stormed off. you can tell it's all for show though, cause the dad was all smiling when homie was cussing out his whole family. my dad woulda shot the homie...an he's a deacon. no way this TV dad would have been all smiles.
Posted by: neekoh | October 21, 2006 08:02 AM
OMG! this show is so nuts!!! but i still love watching it..like sweet 16. LOL. so bad!
i can't help but think this younger generation is so different...in terms of respect for their elders....back then, i couldn't think of ONE person who can talk to adults like that, but now a days, they are a dime a dozen. i can write a term paper on it.
Posted by: piaadoll | October 25, 2006 03:20 PM