Dr. Danielle Lindemann

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Reality TV Sociology (‘TRASH’ TV) with Danielle Lindemann · 5 Mar 2025 podcast

But there are some shows that I would say probably would not air today. From, you know, like the early 2000s that just are overtly offensive on the face of them. But then again, I don't know, like a show like Cops, you know, in the wake of George Floyd got canceled, but now it's back. Really? Yeah. Really? Yeah, but now it's back. So...

When I say certain shows probably would not air today, I think a show like Bridal Plasty or a show like The Swan, I don't see a show like that airing today. Some of the more racially stereotypical shows I don't see airing today. There are some body positive shows like My Big Fat Fabulous Life. Yeah. I mean, The Biggest Loser... Yeah, there's super... There was a study done.

This is kind of a divergence. But there's a study done on The Biggest Loser. And it was an experimental study. And it had people watch one episode of The Biggest Loser versus people in a control group who watched like a nature show. One episode. And then coming out of that, the people...

in the Biggest Loser group, had more of a dislike of fat people than the people who watched just one episode of a nature show versus that show. So my understanding is that there is kind of more of an awareness of that type of show. Reality TV is always kind of a chameleon and changing and rising like a phoenix. So, you know, I don't know what's around the corner.

We might revert to bridalplasty next week.

Yeah, that's really interesting. I mean, it definitely depends on the show. It tends to be like this, what we call like homophilous experience where people are searching for people who are kind of like them, quote unquote, demographically, not only in terms of race, but also in terms of social class and relative age and where they grew up and religion and political values.

And it's interesting because a show like Love is Blind kind of tries to take that away. Mm-hmm. Although at the same time, how much does it really take away? Because when you hear someone talking, you're already getting clues about their demographic identity.

But a show like Love is Blind is fascinating to me from this perspective because the overt point of the show is that it's trying to take away these demographic constraints that we have.

But at the same time, it's showing us that these constraints exist and that we can't actually take them away because once the people come out of the bunkers, there's still these barriers that exist that we've put into place in our society that So something like that's really fascinating.

And then, of course, notoriously, right, like the Bachelor, Bachelorette franchise has been so white for so long. Not anymore, right? Like, finally, there are protagonists of color on these shows, but it took a really long time. And for a really long time, right, like the people of color who were on these shows were not presented as serious contenders. There are a few exceptions, right?

Oftentimes they like fell into that trap of representation where they were just kind of there to lend an ear to like the white people on the shows who were, you know, talking about their experiences. So, yeah, I guess that speaks to your other question about are things changing? I mean, yeah, OK, we've had black bachelors and we've had black bachelorettes now.

And so we do see like a little bit of incremental change in that respect.

Yeah, I mean, I think about that more in terms of like queer representation. There's like a sexually fluid season of Are You the One on MTV. And that got a lot of press. And I think that I was pretty excited about that, especially because there's like a long history of like, people who are

bisexual or pansexual being extremely stigmatized and so having a whole season of people who are like I'm not like fitting into one box one way or the other was fascinating for me and also the fact that they were being presented like not in a negative way just as people on a dating show but that was kind of a turning point that was I found really exciting.

Where's the Catholic reality show? Seriously. I confess all your sins to this old guy. Yeah. Literally, we were the first confessional booths.

I think we can learn cultural norms from reality TV, but we also have to kind of be wary there. Right. Like a bunch of penises out does not represent all of Britain.

It must be so cold. I mean, what if you're like a grower, not a shower? I mean, there's a lot of problems with this.

I mean, we do have Naked and Afraid, but... That's true. The privates are blurred out on that. Right.

Well, it's nuanced because on one hand, people don't want to watch overtly political reality shows because, again, it's supposed to be this kind of escapist realm apart from politics and But there's always been a tie between reality TV and politics, right? Like from Bill Clinton tooting his saxophone on a talk show or Richard Nixon on Laugh-In. That tie has always been there and been a part of it.

Did The Apprentice make Donald Trump our president? I mean, I think that's maybe too simplistic. It seems like it helped and it aided his rise. And oftentimes when people talk about the negative impact of reality TV, that's often what they're referring to. And so I don't have any like hard data on this, but I mean, there's some like anecdotal evidence.

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