Channel Bore

Last night my wife encouraged me to watch "Fairy Godfather", the Channel Four life swap show where basically fed up women get gay guys to encourage their men to dress better.
I'm not sure what she expected me to get out of it, but sadly, it turned out to be yet another of these crass meritless "life swap" reality shows.
Where is it going to end with these shows, we've already had wifeswap, jobswap, houseswap, what next?
"Kevin is a 44 year old accounts director at a large firm. His daughter, 2 year old Jessica has recently started playschool. Channel Four asked them to swap roles for a week. Can Jessica master both walking and new Lotus accounts software and how will Kevin cope with a busy schedule of sticking crayons up his nose and eating his own poo?"
My main bone of contention with "Fairy Godfather" though is not that it's silly shit, (it's certainly not alone in being cheap desperate reality schedule filling), it's the shows remarkably tired depiction of gay people that I actually found a bit offensive.
No doubt the producers will be sore patting each other on the back about how they have offered a positive depiction of gay people on mainstream TV, completely oblivious to the fact that they've done little more than re-enforce stereotypes that have been with us since the 50's.
In the show, the role of the gay guy seems to be to put pressure on their male subject to do three things, clean the house up a bit, dress better and express more empathy for their partners. So we have scene after scene involving gay men being obsessively clean and neat, picking out clothes and nagging. You see, according to shows like this gay men are not men in their own right they are male women, living breathing cliches straight off Ricki Lake's sofa.
And why are these guys qualified to offer lifestyle advice to other people in the first place? Are they trained, qualified relationship councilor's? Psychologists maybe? No, they're gay, and gay folk just know about that stuff. What offensive crap. The gay guys I know must be a bit annoyed at being bereft of the magical powers Channel Four seems to think you get simply by kissing a man.
It seems to me that people who are having relationship difficulties should maybe talk to each other or seek proper relationship counciling. Channel Four's solution seems to be to send a couple of gay guys round to browbeat the man of the house into wearing a polo neck.