Aussie Ladettes To Lady

Last night to my shame, I watched the first episode of Channel Nine’s, Aussie Ladettes to Lady show.

It only confirms my belief that free to air television will do whatever it takes to keep bums on seats in front of the idiot box, just so their advertisers will have someone in the room to look at their idiotic advertisements.

There is so much wrong with this show, that it’s hard to know where to begin.

For a start, the program rewards binge drinking, and lewd and sluttish behaviour from its ‘contestants’. It does this by selecting only those young women whose behaviour is considered the worst of the worst. If you can’t top what these eight young women do with your own binge drinking and lack of self control, you don’t have a chance of being selected.

One wonders just how many women were filmed for this show by the producers before the final eight were chosen. How many young women pushed themselves to the limit (when the camera was around), to behave even worse than they might normally act, just so they could ‘win’ a spot on this trashy program?

Picture this: after taking hundreds of hours of footage and filming dozens of young women binge drinking, exposing themselves, and no doubt vomiting and urinating in the street, the producers of this trash would have sat around with profiles of each of the women in front of them, and discussed which out of all the dozens filmed, they would choose.

One can only guess at the list of criteria the producers had before them, when making their decisions.

• Borderline alcoholic – check
• Great boobs – check
• Lack of self control – check
• Will behave outrageously – check
• Will pee in the middle of the road – check
• Will expose herself for the camera – check

One of the many problems with the show is that those women who get sent home first, are the one’s who are least able to control themselves and their behaviour, and least able to examine their motives for binge drinking and behaving the way they do.

And yet often those women are the one’s who need help the most!

If the producers were at all seriously concerned about the eight young women on the show – and they are not – they would at least have counsellors on hand to help the women gain some insight into why they behave the way they do. From what I’ve seen so far, no-one; not the producers, the ‘teachers’, or the women themselves have made any attempt to do this.

It is already clear these women are not happy with the people they have become. However, putting them in a contest and trying to turn them into ‘Ladies’ will not solve the problem. If they return to the same surroundings from which they came – the same circle of friends, the same pubs and clubs, the same jobs even – who is going to arm them with the skills and insight to stop them from repeating past mistakes?

To make matters worse, the behaviour of the eight young women involved in the show is now exposed for all the world to see. And this in an age when young people are constantly being warned to be careful about what they put online. Now these women face the prospect of having their antics on display for years to come.

I wonder if the producers warned them about the implications of that?

It would appear that some of the women were unemployed, or ‘between jobs’ when they were selected for the show. Can you imagine what a great addition to any resume an appearance on the program would make?

“Yes, that was me vomiting into the bucket in episode one.”

“No, I wasn’t mooning up against the bus window – I was peeing in the middle of the road!”

Potential employers are bound to be impressed!

As if all this isn’t enough, immediately following the program, Channel Nine began advertising for participants for the next series of the show!

So off you go, girls…

Let’s see who can do the biggest projectile vomit; the loudest burp and/or fart; skull the most drinks in the shortest possible time; swear the worst; expose the most; and generally behave in the least lady-like manner imaginable.

Your “15 minutes” are about to begin.

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