Here's a word of advice: if you want to create a dating show with physically disfigured people, and you want it taken seriously, don't title your show Monster Love. The folks behind the new reality series in the Netherlands at least figured that much out and changed the title to Love at Second Sight. The show is set to debut on February 20 and broadcaster SBS 6 is looking for people with visible handicaps to be part of the series.
Despite the show being billed as a positive spin on such handicaps, most of the people polled about the series are against the idea.
I think it will all come down to how the show is produced, and whether or not it exploits the people involved. I also wouldn't be surprised if we see an American version of this sometime in the future, though I assume it will be based on an American concept of beauty, meaning the "physically disfigured" will be a mildly overweight girl with one arm slightly longer than the other.
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1-25-2007 @ 9:17PM
Tucker said...
"Monster Love." Excellent. Now there's a reality show I'd watch.
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1-25-2007 @ 9:18PM
Hone Watson said...
Monster Love - at the risk of sounding insensative... thats hilarious.
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1-26-2007 @ 6:09AM
KittD82 said...
why are people against the show? first people complain that they are disgregarding the quote "handicap" or "disfigured"
then when there is a show that gives people with a so called "disablity". people get squeamish!
get a backbone! people are people!
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2-28-2007 @ 5:09PM
Kate said...
As a 51 yr old disabled woman I believe it is about time for such a show. If the shock and awe treatment is necessary to open the eyes of society that people with disabilities are no less human than their non-disabled counterparts then I say Tally- Ho!
The responses to my blog today confirms my sentiments. Strangely the only negative comment came froma non-disabled reader.
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