Should you be offended by Bravo television’s show “Princesses: Long Island?”
Congressman Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills) thinks so and he is asking people to boycott the show that focuses on Nassau County’s North Shore.
In a letter to the editor, Israel wrote that the show’s stars, who come from affluent families of Jewish descent, “are disgraceful, misleading, and fuel anti-Semitic stereotypes” and “portray both Jews and Long Islanders in the most unflattering light possible.”
He’s not wrong.
The Honey-Boo-Boo pop culture of the 21st century television is riddled with trash like “Jersey Shore,” “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” and “Princesses.” All of this is mindless brain rot.
They are inexpensive to produce – there are no real actors and no scriptwriters.
Israel writes, “I will not silently tolerate a show that paints Jewish women on Long Island with all-too-familiar and painful stereotypes – money-hungry, superficial, Jewish-American Princesses.”
If such “princesses” did not exist here, the “stereotype” would not be painful. But anyone who thinks that anything on the Bravo channel honestly reflects the people of any community is an idiot.
Bravo is “reality TV” at its very worst.
The “Princesses” show is annoying but, really Mr. Israel, there are national issues of far greater importance, such as immigration reform, that you should be worrying about.
