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January 20, 2002
Lifetime TV Sucks...you in
Don't you just love Lifetime ("television for women") movies where you're supposed to be in awe of this "strong" woman who overcomes obstacles, etc. etc. to get what she wants but you end up thinking "what a self centered bitch"? Anyway, my mom was watching such a movie earlier.
It was a "true story" about a woman who had been forced to put a baby up for adoption when she was a teenager because she was an unwed mother and her family was embarrassed. The church said it was best to give it away and pretend it never happened. I admit, that part is a bit sad. However, before she went a courting, she probably knew how her mother and society felt about unwanted pregnancies. She shouldn't have been so shocked when her family threatened to disown her if she kept the baby. Had she really been a "strong woman" she would have made a decision then to either have sex and take the consequences of possibly being disowned by her family and raising a kid or the consequences of putting a kid up for adoption OR not have sex, no? Anyway, I digress.
After the lady had been married, had two other kids (one was about 6 the other was probably 13), divorced and the adopted kid was like 22 or something, she decided she needed to look him up. So, she ignored her own kids (there was a scene where they had no food in the house and they had to call their dad because they didn't know where she was. She'd stay gone for days at a time looking and not tell her kids), harassed the birth son even though he made no attempts to contact her and the PI she hired said he knew she had attempted to contact him and had the info to call her if he wanted and basically ruined everyone's life around her. But, hooorah, it ended with the birth son and her finally getting together and hugging and him saying "I consider you both my mothers." Oh, get over it. That's so TV. I wonder what really was said in this "true story".
Honestly, I would have been more inspired had she not guaranteed her other kids years of therapy. I guess she was saying "my mom screwed me up because she was embarrassed that I had a kid, I'm going to screw you up by making you think I love your other brother more."
Yay! A useless post {g}
Posted by vixen at January 20, 2002 07:35 PM
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I think some of the movies on Lifetime Tv are absolutely scary. They are too true to life. I know many of these are based on true stories, which makes it even worse, to know that some of these horrible things have actually happened to people. A lot of these movies are about men who beat their wives, or ex boyfriends/husbands that are stalking their ex girlfriends. It's not something I enjoy watching. How about some family shows or romance stories? I don't want to watch something that's going to give me nightmares. Lifetime TV is called Television For Women. I don't really know too many women who want to watch movies about being stalked or beaten half to death!!!!!!!!
I feel for these poor women in most cases. I'm a recent father myself and would do anything to keep my daughter safe and happy. There are plenty of sad cases out there where the system failed. I just don't think it makes for a movie of the week. I watch moving to escape reality....not get sucked into someone elses reality whose life sucks more then mine. Wait....it actually makes me feel better that I'm not the bottom of the barrel!! No matter how low you feel there is someone who has screwed themselves up more!
Long live www.husbandsagainstlifetimetv.com
PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THIS,I WANT TO TELL MY STORY I AM FROM ALABAMA. I WAS MOLESTED AS A CHILD MARRIED AT 14 TO THE MAN WHO RAPE ME AT 12YRS OLD. HAD 3 KIDS BEFORE I WAS 18 YRS OLD RUNAWAY AFTER MY 3RD CHILD DIED THE REST IS SUCH A NIGHTMARE. IT SEENS THAT A LIFE SHOULD NOT HAD BEEN USE IN THE WAY I WAS. IF MY STORY COULD HELP JUST ONE YOUNG LIFE. PLEASE HELP ME TELL MY STORY
None of you, obviously, have any idea of the coercion, duress, and socital pressure put on unwed pregnant moms, nor the life-shattering pain suffered by a natural mother when she "surrenders" a child. I DO know--been there, done that. I have recently been reunited with my precious (now adult) daughter, and we are both ecstatic to be getting to know one another. We love eachother very much, and it's a sacred bond that a lawyer, an agency, and the ink on some papers can never erase. Your petty, juvenile comments just go to show your ignorance of the issue you banter about. I pray none of you ever have to endure pain of a similar nature.
Dean for President, 2004.
Hehe, I think they should have taken her kids. She was a sorry @ss mom to her first kid by putting it up for adoption and then to her second and thrid by making them feel unwanted.
This is why I advocate spork histerectomies for all.
Well, I have this to say. Even if it IS a true story, it's absolute bullshit. Lifetime should go back to showing the "true stories" of housewives from Alabama being beaten by their husbands.
I'm betting it was "you bloody ho" and "Hello Miss? Your other two children have been taken by child protection services and we will be giving full custody to your ex husband. Have a nice day."