Blog 10

Morgan Bilodeau

April 2, 2015

     Blog 10

            In class this week we talked about what we see on TV. But we focused on what us as girls see on TV and what we would like to see on TV. We came to a conclusion that we barely see anything that actually happens in real life on TV and that almost every TV show is the same, depicting the same characters. We rarely see Asian and Hispanic girls/men on TV. In class we read an excerpt from a book; the excerpt is called “ Girls, Girls, Girls”.  The author first starts out talking about how TV shows can never fully portray growing up as a girl. I think that everyone grows up differently and therefore not everyone is going to be able to relate to that directors depiction of girlhood. Then the author goes and talks about the HBO TV show called Girls. She talks about how she loves the characters and how realistic everything is. From their body sizes to the sex they’re having in their 20’s; it reminded her of her 20”s. But then she goes on and says that the TV shows have so much pressure to succeed. They have to do this and that to try and make it so that everyone is happy with their show. I think that the TV shows lack diversity. You rarely see an Asian on a TV show or a Hispanic but when you do it’s the everyday depiction that you would think they would be. While white people play all different kinds of parts in TV shows, they don’t just play one character. This is why I think that TV shows lack diversity and in my opinion they need to add more diversity in TV shows. But in reality no on is ever going to be completely satisfied with what they are seeing on TV. So how could we fix that and make everyone satisfied? Is that even possible?