Several decades of extremely intense pressure on ordinary people to emulate the increasingly fabricated images they see around them are beginning to produce a backlash. The taste for the ordinary can be seen as a reaction to the glut of glamour media images with which we are all constantly bombarded, and reality genres are, at least in part, bound up in this.
- Ruth Barcan, In the Raw: "Home-Made" Porn and Reality Genres
Good point, there. (Mom, I found the link via MeFi. Honest.)
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