‘Sorority Sisters’ VH1 Reality Show: Watch Episode 1 Now To See Why There’s Boycott Controversy [Video]

So, um, yeah. I watched the first full episode of Sorority Sisters, a new reality TV show that just premiered on VH1 on December 15, and I can see why advertisers are already pulling out of the show, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The publication states that Sorority Sisters has lost advertisers like Honda and Carmex after black Twitter went crazy in response to the fighting and high melodrama shown on Sorority Sisters on Monday.

I made a mental note to record Sorority Sisters Episode 1, “Sisters for Life,” on VH1 and check it out for myself after hearing Roland Martin going off about the show on Black America Web, a post about the “ignorant reality TV” that is Sorority Sisters, as Martin calls it, while listening to Martin give his viewpoint on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

Yes, I’ll give it to Martin – there is a lot of wack foolishness on Sorority Sisters, with the “sorors” – that’s Greek-speak for sorority sisters – going in on one another over stupid stuff, just to try and drum up drama and ratings. I’ll admit, I’ll probably leave the season of Sorority Sisters set up on my DVR just to see how that “guilty pleasure” progresses, in large part because I don’t like folks telling me what not to watch.

But also, Sorority Sisters did feature more than fussing and fighting sorority sisters. One of the sorority sisters opened up and cried about not always knowing how she would feed her child. Another sorority sister is really moving forward in her career, away from Atlanta super-photographer Derek Blanks – while a third sorority sister deals with the pressures of wanting to further her dancing career and balancing that against her fiancé’s desires for her to spend more time with him.

Therefore, all is not lost with these sorority sisters of Sorority Sisters – a show that had me thinking back to my days at Florida A&M University, when I sat in a darkened room in front of a bunch of Delta Sigma Theta women, prepared to be asked crazy questions like, “What’s the Alpha’s favorite position?” (A question they asked a friend of mine), but instead I was asked milquetoast questions because their den mother was present. I didn’t make the cut, and I think now about how I should’ve pledged AKA, because that’s what I really wanted anyway. (Skeeeee-weeeeee! Pinky raised.)

Anyway, the Sorority Sisters show about African-American Greek life well after college might not be the best representation of the good relationships that sorority sisters might really have in “real life,” but enough of these boycotts already. It was the same pressure put upon VH1’s The Sisterhood show about preachers’ wives and other shows.

Instead of pouring so much energy into boycotts – which can smack of censorship – I choose to flow my creative juices into creating content better than Sorority Sisters, amazing and intelligent stuff that could rival the likes of Showtime’s The Affair, which recently won a few Golden Globe nominations, as reported by the Inquisitr.

That way, by providing the thirsty African-American viewing public with fare more elevated than the same-old weave-pulling and quips-that-can-fit-on-a-t-shirt Sorority Sisters type of tomfoolery, the ratings for Sorority Sisters can naturally fall as viewers decide they’ve seen that storyline one too many times.

[Image credit: Sorority Sisters on VH1]