J.Springer phenomenon

Great Debates
1

Something I’ve noticed from watching those entertaining and enlightening talk shows.

Whenever a guy cheats on a woman, she almost never gets angry at the guy. The two women end up fighting and screaming with each other while the guy who plays on both sits smugly in between them.

This occurs so often that Jerry even stops the ruckus and asks the woman about the guy who cheated on her. She almost always ignores Jerry and screams at the homewrecker, bitch, etc… never the guy.

Now I realize the ghettos and trailer parks have vastly different worlds than we’re used to, and the guests are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

But this phenomenon occurs just about EVERY time there’s a love triangle episode (even on non-Springer shows).

How come they don’t go after the guy? Any thoughts? Any psychologists out there?

2

I think it’s because everyone’s very impressionable. You see women going at it over some guy all the time on TV, so when you get up there, well you gotta get the bitch too.

Probably the women love the guy (for whatever reason)and decide that the real reason he cheated was the other woman. It’s not REALLY his fault… Right. So, they go after the damned succubus instead of the innocent victim of seduction.

People aren’t rational, that’s for damn sure.

3

Woman accept (rightly or wrongly) that guys are arses, but expect their fellow women to act with a shred of decency.

“Never forget that you’re never more than 72 hours away from death by
dehydration. Drinking will only prolong that death.”
-Joe Dietz

4

So THAT’S why the transsexuals attack themselves…

5

I havn’y laughed that hard in a week

“Never forget that you’re never more than 72 hours away from death by
dehydration. Drinking will only prolong that death.”
-Joe Dietz

6

My conclusion: KM – you have way too much time on your hands if you spend it watching Jerry Springer and trying to draw social conclusions from it.

7

Because all the fights on the show are faked, and the producers know that everyone enjoys a good catfight? Just a guess.

“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather

8

My warning to majoritarians is that these people have the “right” to vote.

“It is lucky for rulers that men do not think.” — Adolf Hitler

9

Wasn’t Phaedrus on there last week? :wink:

10

PL beat me to it. I was going to point out that those “fights” are, if not carefully scripted, at least “guided”. It’s similar to professional wrestling’s “storyline.” The producers go over it with the participants ahead of time and make sure they know what the end result of the show is supposed to be and what’s supposed to happen. Each side makes its points, somebody fights, there’s a reconciliation, maybe another fight, etc. They tell them, “Now make sure you mention that you are a born-again Christian at some point…”

They also hold auditions before-hand, like for the Gong Show. They don’t take just anybody who happens to call them up and has a beef to air. They’re very selective. It’s like any other game show, Jeopardy or whatever.

Even the more non-violent talk shows, like Leeza Gibbons and Barbara Walters, are scripted. Leeza and Barbara know exactly which points they have to cover in the allotted time; you can see them checking the teleprompters and the folks behind the cameras for cues.