LETTER OF COMPLAINT
October 30, 2003Dear Robert C Wright, President of NBC:
I am writing to express my concern about the negative portrayal of White Men on your new TV reality show Average Joe in which physically unattractive men compete for the hand of a beautiful woman. Fourteen of the sixteen men appear to be of White heritage, with only Tareq and Dennis S looking to be of a non-white race.
While no prime time reality show to date has featured White Men exclusively, it seems particularly negligent on your network's part to feature White Men prominently in this show, propagating the destructive stereotype of White Men as being somehow sexually undesirable and most likely to be nerdy, geeky and awkward.
Your network must feel this is what remains most palatable to the American public, and this must be the explanation for why you chose to portray mostly WHITE MEN as unattractive in Average Joe.
I am mildly offended by the venue in which you have selected to show White Males on TV. By broadcasting Average Joe you turn a blind eye to the ugly, geeky, nerdy side of multi-culturalism in America today.
Sincerely yours,
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Average Joe Producers Stuart Kranow and Andrew Glassman to AverageJoe@nbc.com