What is Love?

Love *sigh* Ah, Love, that feeling you get when that special someone gives you that diamond. I mean money...oh shit, I totally fucked up!

So, love. What is love? Is it money and diamonds and airtime on VH1? Cause if I was a 13 year old girl that's what I would think love is.

Even though Flavor of Love is my (and many other college students') guilty pleasure it makes me think about what they are teaching young girls. The women on this show parade around in skimpy clothing in front of a man who (in most cases) is WAY WAY old for them. On top of that they are fighting with all the other skanky bitches in the house to find "true love." (Although I really enjoyed when 'Punkin' spit that big ol' logy at 'New York.' It was bad ass.) Young girls are getting the wrong idea about true love and I worry that watching this show will make them think that they need to dress trashy and play head games to get boys.

Flavor of Love and all the other reality shows out there like it portray love as a competition; a game. I HATE when love is looked at as a game! It's something that only the lucky enjoy. You can't force love by winning a competition, showing your boobs, or kissing a guy that the 20 other whores in the house kissed. (um, can you say herpes?) Love is something special, something sacred, and when reality TV strips it down and leaves it standing there naked and exposed it's not special anymore. It becomes dirty and worthless. That is not something love should ever be.

To the 13 year-old girls of reality TV land: Don't become one of these women. Love can't be found on poorly made TV, it's just something that kind of falls in your lap. It isn't planned and you can't put your name on a list and have it given to you. There's no need to change the person you are to get it either. Your boobs can stay in your shirt and your ass doesn't have to hang out of the bottom or your skirt either. Believe it or not someone will love you for the person you are right now, and when love does find you it will be the most amazing thing ever...and you don't even have to kiss nasty old Flavor Flav to keep it.