MTV Sucks!!

[Vanna]

:trigger Speaks of binging and purging on tv :trigger


I am so f@#king mad. :reallymad
I love watching Real World and Road Rules on MTV...until last night. I will never watch MTV again. Those of you familiar with Road Rules will know what I'm talking about here. Last night a new season of Road Rules started, for their mission they had to gain XXlbs in four hours (or something like that). So they show these cast members gorging on food, then of course, throwing up because they were so stuffed (even going so far as to induce vomitting). This was so disgusting to me! What exactly was the point of this mission!?! This shows MTV's total disregard for it's viewers. Not only was this offensive to people affect by eating disorders but it glamorized an illness for hundreds of thousands of easily influenced preteen/teenagers.

I have email MTV my feelings on this and I will not be watching their channel again. They need to make a public apology for their actions and in the future use more sense in choosing their missions.

Thanks for letting me vent, everyone.

:love,
Grace

[Bilbo]

WHAT!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT THAT IS DISGUSTING!!! THIS IS NOT SOME GAME...WHO THE HEC DO THEY THINK THEY ARE???

I am sooo :mad if you have their mail address I will write to...

[LisaBean]

:hugonGracey:hugoff

:reallymad:madOH my gosh!!!! I did not see it..and im very glad i didn't. I understand your frustration. This makes me:reallymad!!!! what the hell were they thinking?????
:loveLisa

[Vanna]

:hugon Bilbo and Lisa :hugoff

I actually emailed Bunim-Murray. They are the creators and executives of Road Rules/Real World. I haven't found an email address for MTV but I am still looking. If you want to email them too, go to www.bunim-murray.com, click on faq on the left hand side of the screen. It will take you to a page that says "if you have another question...email here." click on that to email.

Take care.

:love,
Grace

[starbuck]

I totally agree:reallymad! Not only is that really disgusting, but also dangerous and irrsponsible! When are the right people goind to stand up and say that kind of stuff has to stop:mad. I am so sick of the media glamorizing eds and promoting them. When are they going to learn that kind of stuff only hurts people? It kind of makes you think they don't :reallymad care.

:starsBuck

[lindsey]

Never mind the purging, what about the stats for each cast member in the intro sequence-it gives the height and weight of each cast member as it introduces them in a little techno box in the corner of the tele screen! But, the b/p was way over the top.

What poor judgement on the producer's part!

I e mailed them, too. Hopefully-they will wake up and realize what kind of behaviours their show promoted last night. Who thought up that mission? What were they thinking?

I used to like Road Rules...USED to being the key word.

Be Safe and Well
:peace
Lindsey

[Sonrisa]

I didn't see that, but I agree it sure doesn't sound like something they should of showed. Glad I wasn't watching it as it would of triggered me teribbly! Good job in e-mailing them. :winky

[New-Bride]

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I saw it, and I was not only triggered, but appauled by the tasteless and pointless "mission".

I think it is a damn shame that MTV would condone such an unsafe practice and allow its vulnerable and impressionable young viewers to watch.

I too emailed them. I hope that the producers will get the message and NOT continue to rerun the episode.

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[BoxingGirl]

This is a copy of the email that i sent to roadrules@bunim-murray.com I strongly encourage everyone else to email them also.

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to you today to express my outrage at the extreme carelessness that Bunim-Murray and MTV have shown in depicting Binging and Purging as a social norm on a recent episode of Road Rules. Eating Disorders are not Glamourous. My Illness should not be used as a form of entertainment for it has nearly claimed my life on a number of occasions. Your lack of regard towards sociatial problems appals me.

MTV is notorious for using social issues as a imputus for revenue increases. You have crossed the line this time. Would you have ever considered airing a show that challenges contestants to get as drunk as possible, without care to the risk of an alcohol overdose. You know as well as I that this display would never be accepted. You would have National Alcohol Awareness organizations beating down your doors in protest, swiftly followed by an apology to them for your disregard.

Millionaire mogals such as yourselves can sit back and make light of serious, deadly situations. I can not, nor can the ****-******** million people like me. I ask you to please think...I know that you are capable of human thought and emotion...before you depict such catastrophic issues as an entertainment form.

I understand that it was probably not your intent to cause such harm, however please know that I learned how to purge by watching someone do it on TV when I was eleven years old. I am now twenty-two and have caused irreversable damage to my body. I will die young, there is no doubt. I can not blame my Eating Disorders solely on entertainment TV, however, it has played a large role in my eating disorders development. Perhaps if had not been raised in such a disordered culture I would not have spent the last half my life dying.

I have taken the liberty to express my concerns, as well as sharing contact information for Bunim-Murray, with my treatment team, support groups, friends, family and just about anyone I can think of and have asked them to express their concerns to you. I have also asked that until we receive an adequate response from MTV, that no one in my social circle watch or purchase any items from MTV or Bunim-Murray. I ask you to think about the consequences of your carelessness.

I will leave you with some starteling statistics regarding the lethality and casualty of eating disorders.

Eating Disorders are the single deadliest Psychiatric Illness.

****-****% of women will at one time or another, meet the full diagnositc criteria for and eating disorder.

********-********% of eating disorder sufferers will die from their illness.

Thousands of people die every year from eating disorder complications

Approximately **** million people currently suffer from eating disorders. ********,************ of those people will eventually die

********% of first-third graders want to be thinner

********% of ******** year olds are afraid of being fat

Please don't tell me that eating disorders are something of entertainement value. Don't tell me that the revenue from that single episode of Road Rules is worth the lives of all the young girls that learned how to purge from your show last night. And for God's sake Do Not tell ME that you are sorry...Tell the whole world that you are sorry for the damage that this show has caused.

Please check out the following link if you do not believe that eating disorders kill.
http://www.something-fishy.org/memorial/memorial.php

With great concern,

Jessi Lynn Andrews
River Falls, Wisconsin

[starbrightstarlight]

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I'm joining the :bandwagon of irrate fishies. As soon as I finish posting here, I am going to send MTV a piece of my pissed-off mind! And I'm in just the mood to do it too!

Everyone has made some awesome points. I am not only NOT watching MTV ever again, I am blocking it from my digital cable as soon as I get home. And if I can figure out how to do it, I'll block it from my friend's dish!

Jessi, could you / would you please e-mail me a copy of your letter? Tartu_K@yahoo.com I am at a friend's house for the week and don't have access to my library of ED research which is at home. The #s were auto-blocked by SF for the Board. I can handle reading them. I'm gonna surf to find the stats I want, but it would be easier to have some of them on hand. Thanks!

:love, :flower, :peace, and :rainbow to the :bowl
Charli

[HDasani]

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I was also appalled by the lack of taste by MTV. True, these "Road Rulers" do not have EDs, but I know that when I found out that you could eat whatever you wanted and then throw it up, I ended up with an eating disorde; which is exactly what could have happened the other night. Some young girl could have been watching the show, and thought "wow, I can eat all that and then throw it up." Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I am so mad. I just hope with all my heart that it did not put any ideas in any non-ED people's heads.

[SingingAngel]

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Okay-- I didn't see the eposid my mother wanted to watch it but we didn't I saw the previews and was quite grossed out!! I am not bulimic I am anorexic and I would have had a really hard time with the mission I think that those that thought of this mission are sick people! If they know anything they no that forcing the body to over eat does damage to the interals of the person! I was very revolted by the perviews and thought it was totally wrong.
By sitting and "bingin/purging' from being to full doesn't do your body any good!

I have a question for those that watched did anyone WIN did anyone win the XXlbs need to be gained or did everyone end up vomiting and sick from the episod?

I agree tho that is totally wrong and it makes :reallymad-- I'm glad I didn't see it because from what I read I probably would have been triggered to do non recovery geared things considering I have been doing quite well with my ED at this time!!


MTV YOU HAVE OVER STEPED YOUR BOUNDS AND THE ED WORLD ANIT HAPPY WITH YOU AT ALL!!!



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[rowgirl]

I did not see the episode myself, but I heard someone talking about it . I didn't realize until I read this post just how irresponsible their actions were. I am completely outraged :reallymad

I sure hope that someone will get it through their head that ed's are not something that you use for entertainment :mad

Allie

[Anonymous_Member003]

MTV is terrible and pathetic. Aren't they supposed to be showing MUSIC VIDEOS? Why do they have all these terrible shows? And furthermore, why the HELL would they do a show on that?!!! God that gets me mad. I'm retreating to MTV two now...

[LizzyBee]

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOmad right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A group of friend & I were at school, and this episode came up in our topic of discussion. A girl actually said that "it was hilarious" and that there wasn't any harm in what they did!! When I tried to say otherwise, she told me that "people with eds only do it for the attention & should just be shoot/go & and die anyways" I just got up & left....she tears everything I say to shreds!! Needless to say, I am NOT putting myself around her anymore.

I was sooooo mad I cried....Another girl came up & asked me what was wrong...I just told her not to worry.

The girl who said the hateful statements doesn't know about my ed...but STILLL!!! I just would think that common DECENCY would prevent someone from saying that OUTLOUD!!!!!!!!!

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I'm so angry it is indescripable...

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lizzy

[jadefox]

Not everyone has an eating disorder.

Did the cast say "let's binge and purge for fun, or because we have emotional problems that we would like to avoid/forget by gorging on food and then inducing vomiting so as to feel clean/avoid weight gain"? No, I really doubt it. Did anyone say "bulimia is really cool and you should all try this"? No, I also doubt it and even if they did... turn off your TVs.

Really. No disrespect, but we cannot expect every available television channel to be trigger-free ********/****. In the real world (no pun intended, haha), you sometimes have to know how much a person weighs. Sometimes you have to deal with people eating and puking publicly. Sometimes you have to be strong enough to change the channel, too, because the "can't possibly contain a trigger for a person suffering from an ED" channel isn't and never will be an option.

[SavingSelf]

Bethe:

I, for one, am absolutely sickened and angry. I agree with you to the extent that we cannot expect television to be trigger-free, however I equate this ridiculous mission to that of an alcoholic binge. Some people get triggered by watching Friends, but we don't listen to Rachel or Monica talk about how much they restrict or the last time they b/p.

We see drinking on television all the time, but many times when it is in excess the end result and resolution is either some tragic outcome or AA. What MTV basically did is show a binge, but an outcome that makes it seem ridiculously easy to resolve the feelings of discomfort but purging. I can't count how many times I've heard people say they learned how to b/p by watching it on tv.

I can watch something dumb like b/p on road rules because it doesn't trigger me and somehow I've learned to live vicariously through all these people. But I'm not a thirteen year old girl who is already feelings like I'm fat and the world is judging me based on whether or not I have "chubby" cheeks. We can't change television, but at least we can try to educate since there is so much ignorance and eating disorders are so misunderstood in our culture.

I respectfully disagree about your comment about sometimes having to know what a person weighs. I can't think of any good reason why I need to know what anybody weighs, ever.

Just my thoughts as I wander through life on my anti-ed crusade. Also attaching a copy of the email I sent B-M.
Karley

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I’m writing only to show my anger and frustration for the binge/purge episode on MTV last. Please recognize how completely irresponsible it was for arranging a “mission” that centered solely around over-eating. I know you’ll hear from a lot of eating disorder people about this show, and I’m not an exception. For those of you who are obviously ignorant to eating disorders – the show was equivalent to a drinking binge which I’m guessing you wouldn’t do because of social irresponsibility. Eating disorders are serious and I’m sure I’m not the first one who has emailed you about this.



Considering the fact that there are often stories in the media about eating disorders as a “lifestyle” rather than illness, I think your show single-handedly reinforced this idea. For all of us who struggle everyday and try to educate to curb the complete ignorance of our illness, you just set us back immeasurably by influencing the millions of teenagers who watch all your shows. I wish that saying shame on you MTV would be enough. But instead I hope you realize that there are probably a lot of people that are sticking their fingers down their throat right now because of the show.

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you know what makes me really upset?? pro-eating disorder media!!!!! when will people realize how serious this is??!!!!! ughhhh

my head feels as if it's about to explode!!!

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