Normally, this is not the kind of subject I write about because I hold Oprah Winfrey in very low regard. But, when I read this article in the paper this morning, a feeling inside me began welling up to the point of disgust and disappointment.
It seems that the great and wonderful Oprah Winfrey is producing a series on HBO that’s described as follows:
Oprah Winfrey's getting her kink on with a steamy new cable series about a sexually curious LA housewife.
TV's touchy-feely daytime queen will get down and dirty with the HBO series, which revolves around a married woman who suddenly leaves her husband and kids to act out her secret fantasies in LA's seamy underbelly, according to Variety.
Thanks Oprah, just what we need another voyeuristic romp into sexual escapism that glorifies the break up of the American family.
Now if Suzy Sausage were the producer of this series, I wouldn’t have given it another thought and moved on to the rest of my paper. But, is this the only kind of programming Winfrey thought was well worth her time and effort?
I’m not calling for a boycott of this show or any kind of censorship. I believe in freedom of the individual to produce whatever they want produce. But, I have to say I’m very disappointed that someone of Winfrey’s so-called stature chose to go for the titillating cheap thrill.
Why does the premise and lead character of the show have to be a suburban housewife that chucks away her husband and kids to indulge her pent up sexual fantasies?
Answer: This is exactly Oprah’s largest demographic who watches her show for the past 25 years. And I’ll bet you a dollar to a doughnut that Oprah feels so tuned in to these sexually frustrated women that she wants to tap into that dissatisfaction and turn it into a huge viewership.
Of course any consideration of the morality of a housewife who would be selfish enough to forgo her family to capture hedonistic pursuits seems to be out-dated, or old-fashioned, or outright irrelevant.
Well, it’s not irrelevant to me and others.
This is what makes Oprah a phony in my eyes. She gives away cars and opens schools in South Africa, and isn’t she so grand and special?
But, she also willfully questions the rock-solid tenets of Christianity and leads her sheep to do the same. On second thought, of course she would produce this type of show.
Marriage and family life and the stresses that go along with it are very real. But, did you really have to add your 2 cents, Oprah? And was this the best you can come up with?
Nevertheless, I guess this is a victory for Feminism and Women’s empowerment. Let’s kill our unborn babies and call it Reproductive Rights. Now, we can add housewives behaving badly just like husbands have done since the beginning of time.
This is progress, right?
Thanks Oprah!
From The Last Tradition
