Is "Who's Your Daddy" the show the Fundies are upset about?

[tridim]

I watched a few minutes just now, and it's probably the sappiest show I've ever seen. It's really, really tame. What exactly do they have a problem with?

[progmom]

1. I don't think it's just the fundies who have a problem with it

:shrug:

[GRLMGC]

2. Yeah, it sounds pretty awful to me

I should probably watch it first though but the the premise of the show sounds pretty disgusting to me. I hate FOX.

[eaprez]

3. It's not the fundamentalists who have a problem with it....

[NightTrain]

4. Fundies don't need to actually *see* a show to bitch and moan about it.

They've been doing that since at least the film version of THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST in 1988, and probably for decades before that. Losers.

[Hans Delbrook]

5. I'm just wondering when

We're going to start throwing/feeding people to lions and filming that. That's all that's left. Besides free bread for all citizens.

I've never watched a single "reality" show but based on the commercials I'd say they're proof positive that the lowest common denominator keeps getting lower.

[tekriter]

7. Actually there's one form of reality tv I've always liked...

Baseball games.

[Hans Delbrook]

8. OK, if we're going to include sports..

Then my favorite form of reality TV (Hockey:cry:) is missing from the airwaves this year.
And no, I hate the fighting - it's stupid and a waste of time.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. I think it's pretty disgusting to turn someone's search for

a family member into a cheesy "reality" TV show. It's also disgusting that they found people willing to participate in such a show.

[frylock]

9. i agree..

I find the premise of this show to be even more offensive than "The Swan".

[put out]

13. Oh, yes, "The Swan".

Like watching a train wreck. What on earth do they turn these poor souls into?

O.K., I understand wanting some "work" done; I have a few things I wouldn't mind changing about my appearance had I the inclination, time, and money to burn. But for crying out loud, these women just look scary when the experts are done. Pathetic. At least they could make the subjects look like real people.

[sugar magnolia]

10. I'm no fundie

But as an adoptee I have a huge problem with it.

[Shananigans]

11. See, I just don't get that...

At first I was totally against the show and was not going to watch it out of principal. But then my curiosity got the better of me and I wanted to be able to defend my detest for the show firsthand.

Unfortunately I changed my mind! Overall, I found the show a little sappy, but not really exploiting at all. Both the father and the daughter seemed elated at being given this opportunity. Although the money factor was attached, it was very obvious that this wasn't the number one.

So, although slightly sappy and emotional I'd have to say that I don't really see the problem with it.

Anyone else?

[Hobarticus]

12. Brought to you by the network of moral values....Fox!

What a bunch of turds.

[eaprez]

16. some of the objection was to the title of the program.

some groups felt the title had racist undertones....

[Hobarticus]

17. Not to mention just plain tacky...

Racist overtones? At Fox? Horror!

[jellybelly]

14. The show should be called:

"My Momma's A Slut"

[GRLMGC]

15. That's not really fair

These are people who were put up for adoption not people whose mother's don't know who the father of their baby is.

[jellybelly]

18. then shouldn't it be called

"Who is your Mommy and Daddy?" If she knows her mom, then her mom should know who her dad is right?:shrug:

[GRLMGC]

19. but then they wouldn't be able to use that fabulous title

Duh ;)

[jellybelly]

20. oh yeah....

that title sounds dirty...}( I feel bad for her slutty mother...LOL.

[seg4527]

21. it's kind of sick

my girlfriend has only met her biological father once, and the show really mad her mad.