Who's Your Baby's Daddy

My friend Kenny laughs at me because I watch the Maury Povich show while I'm riding my spin bike.  If you've never watch the show, it is a reality show where, for the most part, has real people trying to find out who is the father of their child.  Sometimes, it's a woman who cheated on her husband or boyfriend and the child might not be his.  Sometimes, it's multiple women who are blaming one guy for fathering their children. Sometimes is a woman who brings on multiple guys to find out who's the baby daddy.

It's kind of fun waiting for Maury to read the DNA chart and saying: "John YOU ARE the father."  When that happens the woman jumps up and gets into the guy's face and yells: "I told you so."  The guy is usually depressed that he has a child and yells back: shut up bitch."  I guess these two are not going to be great parents.

When Maury says: "John YOU ARE NOT the father," the guy jumps for joy and yells at the woman: "I told you so and now get away from me you ho."  The woman cries and has to be consulted by Murry who is telling her he is willing to help her find the real father (on another show of course).

Today, in the wake of an insensitive, crude, uninformed and just not nice radio commentator, I took a step back and could not find the fun in the predicament these people find themselves in.  What a radio commentator should be talking about is the impact on the mother and father of the child.  Instead of the blame game, he should be telling them the importance of focusing on the child.  It's not important who's the baby's daddy.  What's important is are these people able to take care of a child.  Are these people willing to give up a lot of spontaneity (see my previous blog) to care for and love a child.

But no, this commentator is focused on why a woman should not have access to birth control if they can't afford it.  His ignorance blew me away when he called a woman who supported birth control a slut and a prostitute.  He said that a woman who wants to have sex all the time should not have access to free birth control.

Besides being against women's rights (he's had four wives), he has no clue that women use birth control for health reasons other than avoiding pregnancy.  Also, he has no clue that the pill is not like Viagra or a condom.  A woman does not feel like having sex today and takes a pill.  A woman takes a pill on a daily basis to prevent pregnancy and/or to minimize the affect of the pain when having their period. 

It's one thing for him to denounce birth control - it's another for him to say that women should not have a choice.  On top of that, he says that should a woman take that choice, she must be a slut or a prostitute.

Ok, so what does this have to do with the Maury show.  I strongly believe that if the men and women on his show were taught at home, school, friends, etc.  on the availability of birth control and the life changing effects on the parents who have a child, he would no longer have a show.

I feel bad that I can no longer enjoy Maury's show like I used to.  Now I have to find a show with positive energy.  Unfortunately, the state of TV today, that's not going to be easy.  I guess I'll be watching the NFL channel or UGH baseball while I'm spinning away.