A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a new show that MTV is currently casting for called Model Makers. The show basically is about turning ordinary girls into high fashion models through lots of diet and exercise. I am completely opposed to this new show and am working with the Association for Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) letter writer campaign against MTV and Viacom to stop this show from ever airing.
Many of you were very outraged by the new show as well, and I would like to encourage you to please express your outrage by writing a letter to MTV expressing your concerns. I found a dynamite sample letter written by Darryl Roberts, the director of America the Beautiful (the documentary that I wrote a review for a while back). You can find Darryl’s full letter here.
Here is a sample of his letter just to give you an idea:
“Dear MTV,
I remember when you used to be a music video network. That was a long time ago. Sometime since then you morphed into a “reality” television network. In fact, you started reality television with the Real World. Somewhere along the line (probably the Flavor Flav dating show The Flavor of Love) you began to delve into Surreality television. But now you have gone too far. With your new program Model Makers you are looking to actually create a new reality. A reality that is dangerous and destructive to the young minds of your target demographic. While trying to cash in on America’s impressionable youth, you are edging closer and closer to absolute moral and ethical bankruptcy.
Let’s take a close look at Model Makers. This is not just another modeling show interested in pretty faces and young women in turmoil. Yeah, you’ve definitely kept the “young women in turmoil” part, but you are also imparting a more direct and nefarious message: Transform young women into “high fashion” models by urging them at all times to lose weight.
You want reality MTV? Let’s take a sobering look at the reality of eating disorders in America. It is estimated that there are 1.3 million women with Anorexia Nervosa, 2.25 million women with Bulimia nervosa, and 5.25 million women with Binge Eating Disorder. If you don’t have a calculator handy (I’m assuming you shipped those out with all of the videos you got rid of) I’ll go ahead and provide the running tally — Well over 8 million women in the United States suffer from an eating disorder.”
So please get involved! Our efforts might really make a difference here. I am going to work on my letter this week and post it when it’s done. Please send all letters to tiffabees@yahoo.com
Love,
The Cheeseburger Girls
Hell yes! By using that letter as a guide, MTV will get tons of very similar letters. That way they will know we are angry, but not angry enough to try too hard. Just out of curiosity, do you really think MTV gives a damn about people as far out of their demographic as those in the fatosphere? it’s like Ford trucks getting angry letters from Fassion enthusiests or Revlon getting complaints from lumberjacks. If the rage isn’t from the target demogaphic who cares? Even if there is any publicity it will do nothing but help them. MTV thrives on public outrage as it does nothing but INCREASE ratings.
with that type of attitude, nothing protested against ever fails in it’s objective. If the people across the world never protested because of their over-intellectualizing of how the violater may or may not act then many movements would have died a long time ago.
…”people as far out of their demographic as those in the fatosphere?
whuuut…?
“Fat” people don’t watch MTV?
Your comment seems a little backhanded, Tara…it’s like you can barely conceal your own disdain for those who might actually take the time to write a letter to someone at MTV. Why? Just out of curiosity, do you even know what “demographic” means? Are you not eating enough cheeseburgers? Why so negative, sunshine? Is it because you can’t spell “Fassion enthusiests ” ? Come to think of it, maybe you’d better not write to MTV with the rest of us. I would hate for any of the executives there to believe that members of their ‘demographic’ are illiterate.
omg! lol!!!
Just an FYI, before anyone sends any letters to MTV, it should probably be noted that “Flavor of Love” is a VH1 reality show, not an MTV show. They may totally ignore you if they think you don’t even watch their network, or worse yet, confuse it with their competition.
FYI, VH1 and MTV are all owned by same company–I think the writer knew that. I did.
HAHAAAA!!
Tara makes me laugh!
She is my favorite Fat O Sphere Troll!