GCB – Good Christian Belles

What do you get when Daddy joins Mommy while she watches her tv shows? A Daddy hooked on shows like Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy and GCB.  Well GCB was kinda my idea after I saw the trailer but you get my point.

Good Christian Belles or GCB as it is called, is a show about the ‘other side’ of church goers, the underbelly if you may.  The side that is there but we don’t see unless we go home with our fellow Christians after church.  Although in some cases you don’t need to.

I had a negative reaction to it at first.  I thought it was making fun of Christianity and bordering on blasphemous.  I however decided to give it a try and watched an entire episode.  I was glad I did.  Many may not agree but I like the premise of this show.  It’s funny, witty and very much poignant.   The truth does hurt and it’s time we accept it.

Sometimes it is not a bad thing for us to see ourselves the way we really are.  Our shortcomings and our flaws.  It could make us take a long hard look in the mirror and ask, ‘Am I like that? Am I guilty of being selfish? Am I really living the life I preach?’.  Many times we think that accepting God as our savior and attending church regularly give us a free ticket to do whatever we want without paying the price.  Alas, this is not so. We are not exempted because we are Christians.  We are still judged by the same jury as the non-christians.

I am a Christian. I attend church regularly.  GCB does nothing to undermine my faith nor do I feel threatened in any way.  In the same way that showing sleazy, conniving, backbiting men on tv shows does nothing to undermine my manhood.

Did you know that  GCB was originally called Good Christian Bit**es?  Watching the show you could see why but I agree that this was a bit too much.

My take, don’t watch tv with your wife.  You never know what you’d end up being addicted to.  Now I’m off to watch ‘The Bachelor’ that we PVR’d.  I need a good cry.  jk, lmao!   oops! I meant

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The Bachelor Or The Player?

Finally someone else is seeing the reality show The Bachelor for what it really is (The female version is not exempted).  It is a show that is contradicting all the values we try to instill in our children.  It also erodes the very fabric of our society on a whole.

I know that for sensationalism, shows like this feed societal cravings.  We want to see love. We want to see our favorite girl gets the guy even at all cost.  Cost being that he ‘samples’ the other girls then drop them like it’s hot.  In our own soap box, some of us would not accept this sort of behavior from the men in our lives.  We would find it unacceptable. Reprehensible. Sick. Disgusting.

So today, I read with some degree of satisfaction that Barbara Walters has sided with me and slammed the show for what it is, degrading to both sexes and a step back for humanity. (those are my words). Her piece  can be read here.

My take on this whole thing is that we as a society practice a double standard when it comes to what we watch and embrace on television and what we live.  The things we abhor in real life are relished when packaged in a television show.  We fail to recognize that these shows do involve real people with real lives and real feelings.

This show should be called ‘The Player’.

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