Writer Sam Anderson, by his own admission, "hates teenagers with an incredible fervor...it's nothing personal...I hate them categorically, like I hate injustice." Which is why he was so engrossed by Brat Camp, which ended last night. He enjoyed watching the show, since it had "sadistic pleasures" and he couldn't stop watching, even if it was "awful to the very end: slow, repetitive, full of paint-by-numbers pop-psychology and manufactured epiphanies." In other words, Anderson has an opinion about the show and its participants.
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8-26-2005 @ 3:33PM
Man said...
I also hate kids and loved watching Brat Camp. But my favorite part was seeing the weak parents and how they deal with their kids.
Not a surprise that most of the kids were adopted, I always knew adopted parents can't love their kids.
The worst was Lexie a girl who was molested because her parents left her alone with a perverted-man, they learn nothing and put her in boarding school with DOZENS OF STRANGE MEN and by herself with no one to turn to.
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8-26-2005 @ 3:41PM
Emily said...
I don't know about adoptive parents not loving their kids. The ones I know are fully functional families and the parents would give their life for their child. I can understand how the adoptive child may feel unloved due to abandonment issues no matter how much the parents love them, tho.
Jada and her parents were the ones that frosted my butt. What a lying little creep she is. Then her clueless parents who need to see a surgeon to have their spines replaced sit there and shake their heads. They are the Frankensteins that created that monster of a kid and they deserve every bit of it.
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8-26-2005 @ 4:46PM
Man said...
Read the new TV Guide there is a great quote from Jada's father Doug I put on my blog but here it is...
“Jada…loves to sing, act and dance and this was a chance to be in front of the cameras”, said Doug Chabot about why Jada was on the show.
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