I enjoy VH1 reality shows. Of this guilty pleasure, the guiltiest is “Tough Love.”
From the first episode of the first season, I was hooked. Partly because Steve Ward (the host/dating coach/matchmaker) cracks me up. His arbitrarily numbered rules partnered with his “Hot Seat” observations leave me speechless.
But, to be completely honest, I watch mostly because the women in “boot camp” strike me as… Well, there’s really no gentle way of putting it: I just didn’t think it possible women like them really existed. Don’t get me wrong. I have known many insecure women looking for love in all the wrong ways and all the wrong places. And then some. But the women on “Tough Love” are really something else.
Now, before you think I’m too hard on my own sex, I must say I sympathize and empathize with many of these women. I share most of their insecurities and delusions. I know many of their fears and hesitations. It sometimes scares me how much of myself I see on the screen. I’ve been burned by boys and men alike so I guess I’m not all that different from the “insecure women looking for love in all the wrong ways and all the wrong places.”
Maybe that’s the real reason I took so quickly to the show. And I can’t wait for more.
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