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They initially blacked the show out to us in Lancaster County, so as not to offend us. They ended up not finding it horribly offensive, and aired it several days later. Ive mentioned before that I am born and raisedin Lancaster county, with MANY Amish relatives (my mother was old order Amish.. the most primitive). I reluctantly watched the show.. I really expected to see these kids exploited and made fun of. Turns out, the city kids looked worse than the country kids. I watched it with a skeptical eye.. here is my take on it. I thought that Mose seemed most genuine, although he cant consider himself amish anymore because he has already joined the church, and by participating in the show, he is leaving the church and he will surely be shunned. I thought the girls were WAY too comfortable in bikinis. I have gone swimming in local ponds (only because the amish trust my family and me) with local Amish girls and they are ANYTHING but comfortable in bathing suits, let alone bikinis, and in front of boys. Their is a pond in my hometown that they frequented had absolutely NO mixed bathing. No boys allowed. The pond was available to girls on certain days and to boys on other days.. no exceptions. The changing room was filled with their dresses and bonnets, and stank badly of teenage sweat because they dont use deoderant. Their bathing suits were modest homeade suits NOTHING like what you saw on that reality show. In my opinion, those girls were a bit too comfortable in their skin. (And when did they pluck their eyebrows, shave legs, pierce ears.. etc) Obviously, they would not have participated in the show if they were happy with their faith. And it showed. The one girl had an amish doll in her bed.. that is strictly forbidden, as it is considered a "graven image" and would never be allowed. I could go on and on.. the blond girl who seemed a bit "looser" than the rest.. surely she never intended on joining the Amish church as well as her former boyfriend who seems very gay, and lived with her family. They are all too comfortable exposing their bodies. It must be noted that the producers had a VERY hard time finding Amish (or former Amish) kids even willing to participate in the show, and the bishops of the church say that those kids would have likely left the faith anyway, so they dont accurately represent the Amish.
I expected to hate the show, feeling like the kids were being exploited, but I didnt think they were.
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