Norwegian Girls Visit Sweatshops, Cry, Go Home (VIDEO)

Norway also has reality shows featuring attractive young adults. Except they don’t drive Bentleys and face emotional challenges coming out to Lance Bass. They shove them into sad, disheartening, morose situations so everybody can feel horribly Scandinavian. Deadly Fashion sent three young Norwegian fashion bloggers to spend a month living side by side with workers in a Cambodian clothing factory that makes trendy ensembles for Gap and other major Western retailers. You might be surprised to learn that life as a garment worker in Cambodia sucks fairly severely. Like, shut up poor people of America who have cars and cable TV and Oscar Meyer deli meats and smokes kind of sucks.

The workers get paid nickels and dimes to sew for endless hours a day and they have nowhere to shit properly and cant’ afford real food to eat, which helps alleviate shitting problem somewhat. Then they shuffle off to their lean-to’s ten per room to rest their weary bones. You don’t work, you don’t eat. Somebody’s grandmother died because she had no food and starved. There’s a side story in their somewhere about really shitty grandkids. The Norwegians cry a lot as they realize how horrible life is and promise never to wear clothes again. Then they go home and slowly but assuredly drink themselves to death. If TV is going to suck, it should suck like this.