whaaaaat

[giddygeek]

Okay, but can someone explain to me WHY Fox is running a show called I Hate My Teenage Daughter? I mean, I get that teenagers can be frustrating, but really, is that going to be the focal point of an entire television showI just. The very idea fills me with wrath towards everyone involved, and a huge amount of sympathy for teenage girls, who get a

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[impertinence]

The series follows two mothers who fear their daughters are turning into the kind of girls who tormented them in high school.

So, two women who should have gone to therapy before raising children. Got it.

[misspamela]

Yup, that sounds about right.

[giddygeek]

Agreeeeeeed.

[giddygeek]

So very, very much therapy, Imp. Perhaps this show ought to be called Boatloads of therapy for everyone who got fucked up somewhere on their road to parenthood!

[natacup82]

This is the same network that ran an episode of Glee last night that pretty much said "It's cool if you force someone out of the closet if you, as a straight dude, think it's time they embraced it and fuck consequences amirite" so uh yeah. Horrific but not shocking in any way.

[giddygeek]

Oh man, I don't watch Glee, but I keep reading and reading about this arc and I shudder--Lea and I just had a 20-minute conversation about the shittasticness of this treatment of Santana. So a show with an apparent focus on hating girls is not shocking in any, any way, you are so correct--and that is horrific.

[kaethe]

What gets me is, these women raised these girls. If they hate how they turned out, maybe they shouldn't have spoiled them in the first place?

[giddygeek]

I think Imp was right--this is clearly going to be a show about people who need a fuckton of therapy! Who needed therapy before they had kids, sure, and need more now. And probably so do the kids! Therapy for everyone, hurray!

I just--I hate the attitude of teenage-girl-hate that is so prevalent in our society, but I especially am bothered when the hate comes from other women, and when it comes from the moms, I find it heartbreaking. How is this a comedy, you know?

[wesleysgirl]

I saw a clip of something that MIGHT have been that show (but it might have been a different show, I know close to nothing about sit coms) and it looked more like it should have been called, "I have very good reasons to hate my mother."

[giddygeek]

That is very probably it! And you are so right--very, very good reasons.

I haven't seen commercials or anything, I just heard it on the radio a couple times today when I was on my way to a meeting. And every time I heard it I was like...surely I did not hear that correctly, and it is not actually a show that centers around beleaguered moms who shame and hate their stereotypical terrible daughters? BUT IT IS. OH YAY. FUN FOR EXACTLY NO ONE.

I'm sure it'll play for the comedy, and the mothers and daughters will have frequent moments of heartfelt affection, and actually some people will identify with the portrayals. But the fact that this show exists, and is being marketed as it is, and is titled what it is--ugh.

[fox1013]

I can.not. deal. with how terribly society treats teen girls. The message of everything ever is pretty much "If teen girls like it, it is a TERRIBLE TREND THAT WILL PROBABLY END SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT." It's hard to be a teenager anyway, given all of the hormones flooding your system and that of the people who you don't necessarily like but are stuck with for seven hours a day, without being told constantly that you're wrong.

And on top of that, my mind just goes immediately to- even if 99.99% of teen girls aren't bothered by this at all, and even find the show funny (based on reviews I've read, not fucking likely), what about that 0.01% who, even if they don't REALLY believe it, has that little bit of doubt now that their moms (and dads and parents and friends and etc.) hate who they are? Cause that isn't really worthwhile damages to me.

[giddygeek]

Exactly exactly exactly. Ditto times a hundred. I can't deal with it either--teen girls like crappy music! and terrible books! and unattractive boys! and they are sluts! and they are screechy and loud and annoying and dumb, and they should just sit quietly in a corner; seen, not heard. It enrages me, because it's just another burden that kids have to bear--and right, yes, at a tough time when they're flooded with hormones and without a lot of options and shown so many negative images of themselves and their peers.

RAGE. RAGE IN MY FACE for everyone who feels the need to belittle young human beings who are just trying to grow up.