Or are you saying that Becca and I have more of a taste for the exploitative than you two?
Why, I'd no more suggest that than you'd suggest that N and I were being oversensitive! But we did feel it was exploitative all the same, and turned it off for that reason. I suppose if you have to have a "Guess the Mental Illness" show this one was probably as good as it gets. It was certainly many steps short of the Visit to Bedlam that it might have been, and I've nothing against the idea of a programme that shows (which I guess was the point?) that being mentally ill doesn't stop you being a person like anyone else. But is setting up tests designed to "flush them out" the best way of doing this? (I didn't at all mind the cow-cleaning as a task, by the way - it looked quite fun - but I'd definitely have winced at seeing people forced to do stand-up comedy.)
I'd be very surprised indeed if the producer, director and wardrobe people hadn't given considerable thought to the matter of clothes! Even for my humble and utterly clothes-irrelevant appearance on Codex I got given quite a lot of 'dos' and 'don'ts'. The sartorial divide between the medics and the rest seemed very striking to me, anyway.
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Date: 2008-11-12 07:06 pm (UTC)Why, I'd no more suggest that than you'd suggest that N and I were being oversensitive! But we did feel it was exploitative all the same, and turned it off for that reason. I suppose if you have to have a "Guess the Mental Illness" show this one was probably as good as it gets. It was certainly many steps short of the Visit to Bedlam that it might have been, and I've nothing against the idea of a programme that shows (which I guess was the point?) that being mentally ill doesn't stop you being a person like anyone else. But is setting up tests designed to "flush them out" the best way of doing this? (I didn't at all mind the cow-cleaning as a task, by the way - it looked quite fun - but I'd definitely have winced at seeing people forced to do stand-up comedy.)
I'd be very surprised indeed if the producer, director and wardrobe people hadn't given considerable thought to the matter of clothes! Even for my humble and utterly clothes-irrelevant appearance on Codex I got given quite a lot of 'dos' and 'don'ts'. The sartorial divide between the medics and the rest seemed very striking to me, anyway.