Beauty and the Geek: Sexist, much?

So there's this show on MTV (I think it was actually moved recently to CW) called "Beauty and the Geek," which is a tv show that tries to performed the "ultimate social experiment." Now, normally I don't pay attention to menial shows that do ridiculous things so that people can win money and curse at each other on tv. But something told me that there was something different about this show, something very unique that I could not put my tongue on.

After pondering a few days, I realized that the reason this show was different was because it was one of the few shows that actually incorporated the idea of 'intelligence' as a market product. Pairing up 10 nerdy intelligent but marginally-sociopathic geeks with 10 'so-called beautiful' idiotic beauties is possibly one of the most brilliant things MTV has every done. I mean not only do you get the same audience that watches OC, Laguna Beach, Real World, and etc, but you ALSO get something different from those 'hot guy hot girl' shows. Here, in Beauty and the Geek, beauties are forced to deal with insecure social wrecks, while geeks are forced to shave their unibrows.

I mean, it's not a bad thing to help a guy who researches monkeys with red lasers or to help a girl who doesn't know who the president of the united states is. But sometimes I feel that the characters in their personal interviews seem superficial- they talk about how great and valuable of an experience they had, but how is that possible within only like one week? And besides, I've also noticed that its something that the guys only said - it was probably only 'amazing' because they spent time with a beautiful woman, someone that they would never really be able to achieve on their owns.

but on another note, Beauty and the Geek doesn't really 'teach' anything, it actually only reinforces that stereotypes that we have against women and men. Women are dumb and beautiful, while men are smart but shy. But it's okay for a guy to be ugly while an ugly women is shunned not only from the female society, but also everyone else as well. Is it necessarily fair that beauty and the geek actually encourages these stereotypes? They specifically chose ignorant women and strange eccentric men to fulfill this job, and for whose sake? Ours! for money! for entertainment! because we, as human beings, love to see people suffer. whether it be dumb blondes or hairy nerds or anything or anyone out of the norm. and I personally think that this aspect of beauty and the geek is truly abhorring.

However, it is not a lost cause. To remedy this, I propose the the next season of beauty and the geek reverses roles: we find the female geeks out there and the male beauties. I mean that we find those female lab nerds who have low self-esteem, and the hot abercrombie male models who couldn't spell connecticut to save their lives. It would be nice if television supported a message that both males and females can be beauties, that both males and females can be geeks. I mean, why do geeks always have to be males? In fact, I believe that I am a female geek. I am a female geek obsessed with science, who has only kissed one boy, and who loves to spend her summers working at a lab running fuel cells. I am the geek who wants to graduate from a tech school, who is afraid of admitting her feelings, and etc etc. What makes me different from any geek on that show? Because I am a woman, and therefore I cannot be stereotyped as a geek. What bogus is that? I'm sure there are guys equally out there who think that they're beautful and think they have an IQ of 1,000,000. Why dont you try that, MTV? Why don't you ever try anything different? And if this doesn't convince you, I'm sure that the diversity in the program would at least make money on this endeavor.