Queer eye is a reality TV show in which it is centered around 5 men, called the Fab Five, who go around giving make overs to straight men. Each of the five men are experts in several areas including but not limited to fashion, interior design, diet, etc. In each one of the episodes the fab five set out to improve the lives of a straight men who has lost his confidence by using their expertise and giving them advice.
For my blog I decided to watch episode one of Queer eye on Netflix. And because I don’t watch reality TV, I was kind of surprised to see that there were other kinds apart from those that are centered around catty and competitive straight women looking for love. In fact, Queer eye was the opposite of that in that it’s about 5 gay men working together ,rather than competing, to spread positivity. Overall I’d say I enjoyed it because it’s only recently that sexual minorities have begun to have representation on the screen. Moreover, because this is reality TV, this is what their personalities are really like rather being a written character. In addition, the fab five are fairly diverse as they have two gay men of color and not all of them are stereo typically flamboyant. Another quality which I think makes the show so good is that is exposes straight men to gay men which is a good way to clear up any misconceptions. For example, in episode one they worked together to help a 57 year old Man named Tom. Tom became very comfortable around them and by the end of the show he had said that he had never hung out with gay men before. This was interesting because in the middle of the episode, one of the fab five starts talking about his boyfriend and Tom asks him who’s the woman and who’s the man. It’s funny because I made the same face they did and the guy who got asked tells him that there is no women and they’re both men. He also explained to Tom that it’s sexist to say that and that even today the dynamics in heterosexual couples have changed as well. I like how they handled this question because when Tom apologized they were very understanding and forgave him as well as educated him. The episode ended on a good note because at the beginning Tom had no confidence in himself and was not taking care of himself at all. By the end, the fab five helped him regain that confidence by showing him how to clean up his eating habits, buying him a completely new wardrobe so that he’d stop wearing the same thing everyday and teaching him how to take care of his hair and skin. This shows the overall importance of self-care and how confidence really plays such a big role in one’s life and mentality. The most touching moment was when Tom began to cry and thanked them for everything they had done. In your opinion, do you think a reality tv show with women doing the same thing as the Fab Five would ever become as popular as Queer eye? Why do you think women are portrayed being so competitive all the time as opposed to cooperative?
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