Am I a loser because I watch Jersey Shore?

[Anonymous]

I dunno--I'm Italian-American, from a NYC borough, and have family in NJ. Guys and gals like this do indeed exist in real life, my horrified friends.

Also, among ourselves, we use the word Guido. It's really just shorthand, and uber-descriptive for, yes, a "type." The suggestion that it is even in the ballpark of being as horrifying and offensive as the "N" word is astounding. Really.

I even got my WASP husband into Jersey Shore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find myself hypnotized by Jersey Shore. I must be really old, because I have never in my life seen girls at a club with their boobs hanging out like these girls. And I'm from New Jersey. They look like hookers when they go out. Do all young people dress like that now?

Also, I have never seen fist pumping before as a dance move. I've never heard this expressions, "He's creeping on her."

It's like I'm watching a National Geographic special. I'm watching some undiscovered tribe, only they live in a group house in Seaside Heights.

Exactly! I watched JS for the first time this weekend - my sister (lawyer - maybe there is something to this?) and her husband were visiting, and they put it on, so we watched the first episode. I felt like I was watching a documentary of one of those anthropologists from the mid 20th century who did research on what they considered an "uncivilized" tribe and came back and reported their findings. I couldn't believe that people really dress and act like that. I lived in NJ for a few years (but in a totally different NJ than the JS version), and I had never seen anything like what JS depicted.

I enjoyed watching it at the time, but after I was done, it just made me so sad. I don't think I'll watch anymore.

[Anonymous]

Okay, I hate you all (kidding). If it weren't for this thread, I wouldn't have watched JS. i'm totally hooked! Season finale is tonight...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, I hate you all (kidding). If it weren't for this thread, I wouldn't have watched JS. i'm totally hooked! Season finale is tonight...

And another one bites the dust....

I'll be fist pumping along with you as I watch the finale tonight!

[Anonymous]

Hey bro, quit hatin' on us cause we're chiilin' to JS! Why you such a hater? You need to get in the hot tub. But don't be a fricken hippo whore like that grenade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have six advanced degrees, am a former partner in BIG LAW, am studying right now for another PhD. at a very prestigious university, graduated top of my class (undergrad) at an Ivy, went to a Big Three DC elementary school, voted for Howard Dean, eat only raw vegan food, drive a Subaru with lots and lots of political bumper stickers, and yes, I watch Jersey Shore.

Does the watching Jersey Shore part make me a loser???

No, but voting for Howard Dean did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League graduates don't attend the big 3 anything, but people in D.C. are too stupid to know that.

That's just asinine.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else find it somewhat interesting that there appears to be a disproportianately high number of attorneys addicted to Jersey Shore? Just wondering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find it somewhat interesting that there appears to be a disproportianately high number of attorneys addicted to Jersey Shore? Just wondering.

Wonder if the can spell "disproportionately" any better than I just did?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I'm watching the Guidos and Guidettes right now."

I suppose this same person uses the N word. There's lowbrow, and there's white trash. Nope, on second thought, they're the same. Education doesn't cancel out the trash in white trash.

you realize, of course (because you are so high brow) that by adding "white" you are implying that "trash" is black (or something other than white). so who's stereotyping now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm watching the Guidos and Guidettes right now."

I suppose this same person uses the N word. There's lowbrow, and there's white trash. Nope, on second thought, they're the same. Education doesn't cancel out the trash in white trash.

you realize, of course (because you are so high brow) that by adding "white" you are implying that "trash" is black (or something other than white). so who's stereotyping now?

Now THAT is just asinine. Take away the "white", and it is all encompassing. Add the "white", and it just that--"white trash".

[Anonymous]

Why would someone use horrible names to describe "their own kind"? Do you hate yourselves that much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why would someone use horrible names to describe "their own kind"? Do you hate yourselves that much?

Now THIS is an asinine comment!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find it somewhat interesting that there appears to be a disproportianately high number of attorneys addicted to Jersey Shore? Just wondering.

Considering 1 out of 10 people in the DC area is an attorney, no, this is not surprising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why would someone use horrible names to describe "their own kind"? Do you hate yourselves that much?

Dunno. People do it though. Maybe it shows control over something they used to have no control over when it was used negatively.