Guest guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 I guess this is off-topic, but I wanted to share with you my thoughts on this television series that reaches millions of viewers. Last night, on ABC, Desperate Housewives aired an episode where a previous " wild child " conformed after college and is a vegetarian who allows her 6 year old son to call her by her first name. The entire segments including those characters is demeaning the vegetarian choice- " don't you want him to have proper nutrition? " I just watched the grandmother trick her grandson into eating a hot dog. She told him that when little kids eat hot dogs they grow up big and become baseball players. then eat proceeded to eat it. The claimed it tasted 'like tofu, but better. " YUCK! He then gets violently ill, throwing up at the dinner table. Tell his mother (by her first name) that he ate 2 hot dogs. The grandmother cannot understand why he got sick, thinking it was because she gave him the second one. UGH! Just had to share my disappointment with you all. I will send something positive in a bit Cassie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Major Disfuntional Families would be a better name for this show. LOL Our family does watch this show. Disrespect for each other, on all levels, permeates this show. Judy - Cassie Dixon Monday, October 13, 2008 8:16 PM Desperate Housewives desperate for $? I guess this is off-topic, but I wanted to share with you my thoughts on this television series that reaches millions of viewers. Last night, on ABC, Desperate Housewives aired an episode where a previous " wild child " conformed after college and is a vegetarian who allows her 6 year old son to call her by her first name. The entire segments including those characters is demeaning the vegetarian choice- " don't you want him to have proper nutrition? " I just watched the grandmother trick her grandson into eating a hot dog. She told him that when little kids eat hot dogs they grow up big and become baseball players. then eat proceeded to eat it. The claimed it tasted 'like tofu, but better. " YUCK! He then gets violently ill, throwing up at the dinner table. Tell his mother (by her first name) that he ate 2 hot dogs. The grandmother cannot understand why he got sick, thinking it was because she gave him the second one. UGH! Just had to share my disappointment with you all. I will send something positive in a bit Cassie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Oops, I left out the word " not " . It should read, Our family does NOT watch this show. - wwjd Monday, October 13, 2008 8:39 PM Re: Desperate Housewives desperate for $? Major Disfuntional Families would be a better name for this show. LOL Our family does watch this show. Disrespect for each other, on all levels, permeates this show. Judy - Cassie Dixon Monday, October 13, 2008 8:16 PM Desperate Housewives desperate for $? I guess this is off-topic, but I wanted to share with you my thoughts on this television series that reaches millions of viewers. Last night, on ABC, Desperate Housewives aired an episode where a previous " wild child " conformed after college and is a vegetarian who allows her 6 year old son to call her by her first name. The entire segments including those characters is demeaning the vegetarian choice- " don't you want him to have proper nutrition? " I just watched the grandmother trick her grandson into eating a hot dog. She told him that when little kids eat hot dogs they grow up big and become baseball players. then eat proceeded to eat it. The claimed it tasted 'like tofu, but better. " YUCK! He then gets violently ill, throwing up at the dinner table. Tell his mother (by her first name) that he ate 2 hot dogs. The grandmother cannot understand why he got sick, thinking it was because she gave him the second one. UGH! Just had to share my disappointment with you all. I will send something positive in a bit Cassie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Just the name of the show doesn't interest me. Desperate lol Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile " wwjd " <jtwigg Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:40:58 Re: Desperate Housewives desperate for $? Oops, I left out the word " not " . It should read, Our family does NOT watch this show. - wwjd Monday, October 13, 2008 8:39 PM Re: Desperate Housewives desperate for $? Major Disfuntional Families would be a better name for this show. LOL Our family does watch this show. Disrespect for each other, on all levels, permeates this show. Judy - Cassie Dixon Monday, October 13, 2008 8:16 PM Desperate Housewives desperate for $? I guess this is off-topic, but I wanted to share with you my thoughts on this television series that reaches millions of viewers. Last night, on ABC, Desperate Housewives aired an episode where a previous " wild child " conformed after college and is a vegetarian who allows her 6 year old son to call her by her first name. The entire segments including those characters is demeaning the vegetarian choice- " don't you want him to have proper nutrition? " I just watched the grandmother trick her grandson into eating a hot dog. She told him that when little kids eat hot dogs they grow up big and become baseball players. then eat proceeded to eat it. The claimed it tasted 'like tofu, but better. " YUCK! He then gets violently ill, throwing up at the dinner table. Tell his mother (by her first name) that he ate 2 hot dogs. The grandmother cannot understand why he got sick, thinking it was because she gave him the second one. UGH! Just had to share my disappointment with you all. I will send something positive in a bit Cassie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 In my experience, vegetarians are demeaned. They do get sick if someone slip them meat because they are not used to eating that. Just the other day, someone had a derogatory Vegetarian t-shirt. All I saw was VEGETARIAN. I happily said, " Are you vegetarian? " Then, he told me what his shirt had said. I told him I was vegetarian. People have given my brother meat hamburger when he has ordered veggie burgers. I find myself checking that. It probably isn't alot of people, but the people that do it are noticable even after all these years with so many of us out there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 It's sad that in today's society not even Vegetarianism is safe. I was asked to lunch by my husbands boss and although she is so sweet I didn't know what to say. She picked a noodle house that doesn't have a vegetarian menu. The only thing I can have there are the eggrolls. I accepted and suggested a Chinese place next door, they have food I can have. I am very happy with my choice and I won't make changes just to be nice. I'm committed. On Behalf Of Ellen OConnor Monday, October 13, 2008 9:29 PM Re: Desperate Housewives desperate for $? In my experience, vegetarians are demeaned. They do get sick if someone slip them meat because they are not used to eating that. Just the other day, someone had a derogatory Vegetarian t-shirt. All I saw was VEGETARIAN. I happily said, " Are you vegetarian? " Then, he told me what his shirt had said. I told him I was vegetarian. People have given my brother meat hamburger when he has ordered veggie burgers. I find myself checking that. It probably isn't alot of people, but the people that do it are noticable even after all these years with so many of us out there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 My husband and I saw the show as well (while we rarely tend to watch TV, Desperate Housewives and Numbers are our weekly guilty pleasures) and were disappointed by how condescending the show portrayed vegetarians. Our family is vegetarian with two young kids (who certainly do not refer to us by our first names) and it's just too bad that vegetarians are perceived as being unhealthy and unathletic by so many. My son loves sports and my husband is becoming well-versed on successful athletes who are vegetarian so he can counter the masses that would tell our son that he can't be good at sports with a vegetarian diet. On the positive side, other mainstream medium occasionally run their plugs on the pros of the vegetarian diet. Earlier in the afternoon, we had extended family (none of whom are vegetarian) over for a meal and (of course) served all vegetarian food, which everyone enjoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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