Party Vibe

Originally posted by Site
TLC’s award-winning TV reality series, FAKING IT, is now looking for a Dancing Raver who wants to fake it at their DREAM JOB!

Stand-up Comic (male)

😀 do they think us ravers are all a bunch of jokers then?

WTF is a “flair bartender?” this may only be the recruitment for the US series…

doesn’t appeal to me though – too much of a potential poisoned chalice appearing on mainstream media as it could be the end of your raving days…not as if this is a secure job in a production company or a long term presenting contract..

reckon you’d never be able to go to an underground rave or free party after that… people would either start on you (look! there’s that twat off the telly!) or even grass you up to the cops or media out of hate/envy.. (or if you’d got any kind of extra media work out of appearing on the reality TV show, you’d may well have been followed there by tabloid media journos who’d invariably grass up the party…)

of course if anyone is really that determined to appear on such a show its their own choice; but is short-term fame worth giving up your freedom for?

yep, that ad as it stands is potentially illegal, contravening the Sex Discrimination Act 1974!

No employer is permitted to discriminate in such a matter when hiring, unless it is something obvious like a womens’ refuge where the gender requirement was needed to ensure peoples safety.

The recruitment process could however be being held in the USA, where I think the anti-discrimination laws are not as stringent as ours (or have even been repealed since Dubya came to power!)

Even if it was a British production if the company was challenged via an ofcom complaint they could argue that one week the contestants are male, the other week they are female (giving an equal number over a series run) – if they can prove this nothing anyone can do..

Lets face it though the mainstream media thrives on gender and race divisions – even their implementation of “politically correct behaviour” increases them!

I once applied to the BBC for work experience, and immediately got referred to the Asian programming department only to be told “I was the wrong kind of Asian!” – they didn’t seem to think I may want to work on “normal” programmes for everybody?

I then read a report where BBC listeners to Asian language programmes (usually the middle aged and elderly of the community who often do not speak much English) were complaining that the presenters there were too young, did not relate to them and didn’t seem to have their heart in producing the programmme as if they wanted to move on to “better stuff” quickly – I wonder why? 😡

It was also only weeks ago producers of another popular reality show TV here got bollocked for causing conflict which led to on-screen domestic violence, and putting text messages from viewers on the screen who were taking sides…… (other viewers were so shocked they even called the cops!)

further update: at least one person who works for this production company posts on SJ, and may well be responsible for the original request (it turned up on the guestbook originally and Dr Bunsen relayed it here)

Incidentally he claimed that “Faking it” was OK; yet “Wife swap” (another reality show made by the same prodco) was exploitative – :confused: