It seems that everything is valid on television, and the trendy reality shows touch on any subject. We have them starring girls, teenage mothers, pregnant women and their deliveries ... What we had not seen so far is a reality that will show us pregnant women looking for a partner.
It is the theme of "Pregnant & Dating", a television program that is broadcast in the United States on the WE TV network and that is generating controversy. The title could be translated as" Pregnant and dating ", and is that different women who expect a baby have meetings with men who could Be your partners.
The program shows the adventures of five pregnant women (Kiesha, Shana, Melissa, Megan and Rachel), while looking for love, making the viewer see how their dates are with possible partners.
The profile of the girls who star in the program is varied (all very cute, yes), and it wants to get all the juice. There are women who were abandoned by their partners upon learning of pregnancy, others had artificial insemination, others have not informed the father, a passing lover, that they will have a baby ...
It is strange to see these girls, who are in their twenties and forties, looking for a partner, because we are not used to that situation. But I wonder,a pregnant woman has no right to find a partner Like any other person?
It is probably more difficult, because, let's face it, if it is already complicated for two people to be compatible, when another one is on the way, things get complicated. Responsibility and future perspectives are broader from the beginning than if we talk about another situation in which there are no babies involved.
But as these girls claim (maybe responding to some of the voices that "accuse" them of pretending only sex in the program) look for that couple with whom to share the moments of pregnancy and with your baby later. Share your life with a person you have not found so far.
The voices that have spoken of the program also point to compassion at times: how do these pregnant women intend to find a partner? They don't explain it, but ... isn't it possible?
In that sense, it seems most respectable that these girls and anyone else who is pregnant look for their love (yes, I'm going to get romantic, why not). Someone who respects her and her baby and who wants to share his life with them, with "the complete pack".
But, even if the girls only looked for a temporary relationship, I also see no problem, provided they have safe relationships. But it seems that much of American society has been scandalized with the idea that a pregnant woman may have (or desire) sex.
Does a pregnant woman stop being sexy, stop feeling desire? Well maybe sometimes, but that topical image of the pregnant woman doing sock in a robe without being able to move from the rocking chair I don't like anything. But of course, it depends on how the matter is treated, we will have a very different result ...
Show, morbid and "tele-falsehood"
Another issue is that this issue of "girl looking for a boy" wants to make a television show, with all the corresponding morbidity, that the girls be reified and sexualized and that the public exposure of these people occurs (which, in any case, are adults and are supposed to be aware of it with all its consequences, unlike for example the programs starring children).
I would also worry, if I were one of these girls, that my suitors signed up for the car of fame and were there to go on television. On the other hand, if I were one of those guys, I would worry that the girl I like went to a TV show to find a partner. Won't it be fame what they want? Although, well seen, it is complicated to have these ideas ...
Because of course, if any of those girls or boys thought like me, they wouldn't be there. And maybe they both want the same thing, have the same aspirations and are their better half (we don't know if much beyond what the program lasts…).
It could also be that, to favor the show, even the stories of these girls (or part of them) were not real, were exaggerated or "adorned" to create more show. And I mean both past history and what they live with suitors during the show's broadcast.
In short, I can understand the controversy generated by the television program in which pregnant women are looking for a partner, but I don't share the prickly critics. If I have to criticize something "Pregnant & Dating" It is in which there is a show of something that should be more intimate. And in this case the reality thing loses credibility ...
