Or just sensible??? The Teen Choice Awards are being broadcast this evening and so as I type, Avril is shouting her "Girlfriend" complete with bleeped out "motherf*%$ing princess" line... I am of course watching it because I don't have cable and with only 5 choices, this is the tops for now! But after I just heard the following, I may just watch the football!
This year they have a Horror category! That's right, people- Teen Choice Awards, aimed at 11 year olds, nominating some of the following for awards.... Hostel II, Saw III, 300 (all of which I have seen, Saw III almost made me vomit when the man was being drowned alive in liquefied rotten pig flesh and the sex in 300 was HOT- that chick had some serious knockers and the rape scene was great)!! Don't forget the other Rated R nominees (I would hate to seem anti-horror)- Knocked Up, Borat, The Last Kiss and Justin's big nomination for Alphadog!! "Over 6 Million Viewers Tune in with Record Ratings among Kids 6-11 and Highest Viewership of Tweens Ever"!!! SIX YEARS OLD!!!! (and by Tweens, they mean 9-14)
It is unbelievable to me that the same people that think nothing of letting their kids see a racy PG13 would let them vote on a very horrid R! (And seriously, if Hostel II doesn't deserve an NC17 rating, I don't know what does anymore!) Whenever people wonder why kids are lacking in respect or aren't functioning as well as they could be- don't blame it on the media or lack of Ritalin, blame it on the parents!!! Kids are watching the Teen Choice because Miley Cyrus just introduced an award and the cast of the ridiculously bad High School Musical 2 is up for Crap of the Year and are getting a solid helping of Rated R. "How would we know?", Parents may cry... because the show was taped Sunday, the nominations have been up for weeks, I don't even have cable and I knew it was on! A very quick google would have revealed all they needed to know to put something else on! And don't even get me started on the Choice Hottie category!! As a girl who never has and never will look like winner Jessica Alba, I am about to get out a pint of Double Fudge Brownie and cry in my vodka so I can't even imagine how the average, say 7 year old's self esteem is being stomped on right now!
And the thing is, as I don't even have kids (though I do oft feel like I am raising a whole family) my real complaint is WHAT THE HELL IS LEFT FOR GROWN UPS??? Porn? Is that all there is? Then again, they opened the show by showing host Hilary Duff's Maxim cover! Oh well, I guess we have nothing....
Bring on the football! Now that Ryan Seacrest just won Choice Hissy Fit for his fine turn in the oh, so appropriate for the teen girls screaming for him Knocked Up, I feel ill.
