Alone Again, Naturally?

We tend to watch a lot of the HGTV in our whoose. Shows about dumb Canadians trying to sell their house next to the railroad tracks for example, are quite enjoyable.

One trend though that I have had aboot enough of happens on the show House Hunters. This show depicts someone (sometimes a couple, more about that in a minute) who is looking for a new abode. They are given three choices, we see those choices and then at the end they tell us which one they went with. Oh, the drama!

Of course with anything on TV, this show seems to have it's own little agendas to push. Besides the obvious point of having homosexuals as the "couple" about every other show they also like to focus on lonely single women with dogs who seem to think they have the world by the short and curlies and lookout, once they get their house in order their lives are going to improve greatly!

It's sad really. The women are often average-looking and many don't even seem to realize that chances are, this is it. This little condo is it for you. You're 40 years old and average looking with a fairly typical urban, left-wing, feminist world view. Dudes aren't exactly beating down the oak door to get at ya!

But they go on and on about "entertaining" and how incredibly important it is that they have room for "entertaining." How often do people do this entertaining business anyway? Once every few months?

For the most part your life will consist of coming home to a cold and empty house. Oh sure, the dumb dog will be there. But that is mighty thin consolation for a human being that God built to interact with other human beings in a very close and personal context every single day. You're trying to defeat the system basically.

So what's my point, to mock these Elanor Rigbies of the world and look down upon them? No. My point is to say that the fact that SO MANY of these creatures are featured on this program leads me to believe that there is an agenda at work to normalize this type of sad existence and say to the culture "SEE, I'M HAPPY! OKAY? I DON'T NEED A MAN OR CHILDREN! I HAVE GRANITE COUNTERTOPS AND A DOG!"

Who are you trying to convince anyhow I have to wonder.

The Elder adds:

Meanie.