So, last night was the premiere of MTV’s delicious, guido-loving, fist-pumping docu-reality series Jersey Shore, a show that’s been ruffling more than a few feathers Read the full post.
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“But you’re just perpetuating a negative Italian-American stereotype. I mean, you could be a pizza man, organ grinder, a leaning tower maker, and uh.. did I say pizza man?”
Tanner Stranskys grammar skills are offensive!
I have to agree. This was the most oft-putting and rambling piece I’ve read yet.
Whoops, “off-putting.”
I agree completely, but in your brief post, you show us that yours aren’t such great shakes, either.
What I find funny is they have a poster of Scarface and in the movie Al Pacino does not play and Italian he plays a Cuban immigrant. Maybe they have the poster because Pacino is Italian and from New York.
None of these guys are hot.
They are very ignorant people that MTV cast for this show. I suppose they worship Al Pacino the way their forefathers worshipped Joe DiMagio or Rocky Marciano — it is some kind of ethnic pride.
Tanner Stranskys grammar is offensive … LOL
As an Italian-American from New Jersey, I reluctantly watched. Most of the cast aren’t even from NJ- but it’s not completely off-base. The attitudes of some people is one of the MANY reasons why I moved out of the state.
I have to disagree with you, i am an itan jersey girl that lives in central jersey and has a house in brick, nj (which is 10min. From seaside.) This show is giving all the wrong impressions of jersey. The show made people from jersey look like trashy, slutty, lazy people which is so wrong. New jersey is a very diverse state that has all types of people from every background and i am just so sick of tv stations only showing the sterotype guido on their shows! Not only does it degrade italian americans and jersey it also is disrespectful to women!! I AM NOT HAPPY MTV!
Please. MTV didn’t create the boardwalk or all the people that frequent those clubs. They were already there before the cameras showed up. Cameras don’t lie, regardless of how the footage is edited. The show is not about NJ. It’s about eight guidos, living in a summer rental on the Jersey Shore. Most people know there is more to the state than Seaside Heights. Give people a little more credit. You just sound like an angry person.
Quit your crying and your whining. Guido and Guidette Italian Americans are often “trashy, slutty, lazy people.” Normal average Italians are not. Normal Italians are productive respectable and members of society. Normal Italians are not Guidos. But Guidos are Guidos, there is no denying it no matter how embarrassing it is to Italians.
So why do we need to celebrate them for being garbage?
“Such perpetuating of stereotyping happens all the time”
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Oh, so does that make it right?
The Situation (really?) may have serious abs, but he is stupid, ugly, and has a pencil neck.
I grew up going to the shore each summer. This reminds me of my last summer before College! Freakin awesome fun! Love this trash!
To Mspuddy, hello….Al Pachino is Italian.
As someone from NJ this is beyond offensive in general not just if you are Italian and from here. What makes this worse is that people feel that these types of shows are true in real life and to some extent that people here are like these idiots in the show. I think NJ has been abused enough by Hollywood and the media without adding to it with a show that is as tasteless as this.
The show accurately depicts certain Italian Americans who call themselves Guidos and Guidettes. You may not like it, you may be embarrassed, but there is no sleight of hand here. No trickery. The show’s participants are functioning adults age 21-29 and pump their fist valiantly. Get over yourself. Quit lying to yourself and trying to lie to others pretending Guidos are only a very small group. Guidos are everywhere.
[[As a gay man, do you think I wanted someone as heinous as Carson Kressley representing me when homosexuals finally got their due on reality television with Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Um, no, no, and NO! (His hair alone was offense enough.) ]]
Weren’t there four other guys on that show? Why focus on one specifically? Or does Tanner identify with the most outrageous, flamboyant member of that group, and only wishes that Kressley was better looking and had better hair, to better represent the stereotype of catty queen?
anyone who is offended by this:
everyone in the cast was PROUD to call THEMSELVES “guido’s/guidette’s” and totally embraced everything that goes with it – it’s not like MTV is labelling these kids. they are proud of who they are and what they want…just because it may not match your ideal of what an italian american should be doesn’t mean it’s offensive. it’s offensive that you find it offensive – it’s discrimination of “guido’s” – haha.
Ok so everyone says that only the Italians are getting offended. But I am from where the show was filmed and it is disgusting and paints a nasty picture of my home. The show is about the tourists AKA Bennies and not about the people from the shore. And you may think its funny but WE have to deal with their crap for 3 months out of the year and they crap up our town and it sucks. We should be considered for sainthood for having to deal with it.
arent the tourists, or as you call them “Bennies” (is that a derogatory nickname?), supporting your economy, as is the case with most beache towns?
Yes, Bennie is a derogatory nickname, for people who go “down the shore” during the summer, rent out bungalows and such, spend their and buy T Shirts that have the location of where they’ve been (bennie, get it). The “Pineys” (Jersey shore residents who live near or in the Pine Barrens) think that Bennies are the OMG! worse things in the world, while taking their money. Stop crying, Joanna. Without the Bennies and their tourist money, you Pineys would go broke and starve in the winter. Deal with it.
You can’t possible define an ethnic American group with a set of 8-10 people. None of the cast are the full representation of Italian-Americans. They are a bunch of uninhibited young partiers who have several social norms in common. The show is getting tons of hype on the internet, so someone must be watching it. Just the recaps make my skin crawl.
Only 8-10 people? Did you watch the show? Those Guidos were crawling over every inch of the town they were filming in! In the hundreds and thousands. I’ve seen these punks all over the place. Stop lying.
We get it, you work for MTV. It’s the only possible reason you could have for feeling the need to respond to every criticism of the show with pretty much the exact same post. It’s almost as sad as CLuver and the spam posts.
@ 10:04 AM. I noticed you are not challenging the validity of any of my arguments. Your only tool of criticism, ad hominem tripe about me working for MTV. Why? Because all I have said is basically true. It’s only the spineless PC crowd and closeted “Guidos” who are lamenting the show and bleating for censorship. Pathetic.
This has the potential to be one of the greatest television shows of all-time. Dead serious.
Also, I don’t see how this is offensive to Italian-Americans. The eight people depicted in this show are REAL people who choose to act the way they do. (And, apparently, so does a large segment of young Italian-Americans.) MTV is merely documenting their existence. It is not a scripted program with fictional characters perpetuating stereotypes like “The Sopranos” or “The Hills.”