Italian public broadcaster has purchased and aired the obnoxious Turkish reality TV programme. For details of the programme read the Independent article above; basically the show asserts that the extreme form of partiarchy that dictate women are birth-giving machines or household slaves, as "reality". The producer, intentionally or unconsciously, professes his misogyny; according to him, the programme deals with "relationships that are eternal". Wow, I can see his desire that he wants partiarchy to be an eternal reality like the gravity, (by the way the latter's not really eternal!) but as you know it's a mere social construction that is to be smashed.
The whole story is a perfect example and evidence of the harm commercialism in the media does to the social justice. It proves that the conflict between the values of public service broadcaster and commercialism is inevitable in any country. It seems that the president of RAI perfectly understands the nature of the programme, as he commented it was to "put people into environments that are both unrealistic and coercive, leading inevitably to unreasonable if not degrading behaviour" and the public broadcaster shouldn't be providing such nonsense to the audience. Commercialist reality TV itself is evil enough. But when it marries to patriarchy, the child fathered by patriarchy and borne by a birth-giving machine called the media commercialism is certain to be horrendous and grotesque.
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