Can't stand these shows. It's lowest common denominator television that validates and encourages their juvenile behavior and generally horrible values - extreme greed, extreme competitiveness, extreme vanity, extreme materialism etc. Yeah, I said it.
@Diziet_Sma: I don't know that it validates and encourages the behavior so much as it calls these people out. At least, that's the way I see it because I could NEVER act like these women. And honestly, after seeing all of the shit that happened in Atlanta, I have really been watching myself with what I say about other people. It may be a weird source of inspiration, but the Real Housewives has kind of changed how I view my relationships with other women. For the better. Yes, it shows these women being complete asses to each other but maybe it's important for people to see that. Sometimes examples of what NOT to be are just as important as images of what we SHOULD be. #therealhousewives
@first man: The fact that the show even exists is a validation, and the producers undoubtedly encourage their worst excesses: such is the nature of 'reality' TV. I hear what you're saying about the way you watch it - and hey, each to her own; it's only a matter of personal taste - but not all its viewers are as intelligent and thoughtful as you, or most Jez commentors, for that matter. I'm sure there are many who watch it and actually aspire to be like those women. *Shudder*
@Diziet_Sma: It totally makes fun of their competitiveness, greed, materialism, etc. Those women look like fools and are held up to public ridicule and contempt for their behavior. I don't think it glorifies them at all--except perhaps in their own minds, which is part of why the joke's on them. #therealhousewives
@BeckySharper: I guess that kind of humor is so obviously and clumsily set-up that I don't even find it funny; just tedious. Still, it would be a boring old world if we were all the same.
i'm probably hooked on the shows because after all their whining, posing, unrealistic grandstanding and drunken outbursts i keep hoping for the scene where i see their behavior come back to bite them in the ass and they majorly fail. will that scene ever come? probably not and if it does dribble onto the screen it certainly won't live up to the comeuppance i feel they deserve. #therealhousewives
Archetype? Unless desiring your 15 minutes of fame has become an archetypal quality, I don't think that word means what he thinks it means. #therealhousewives
I find no reason to watch this show, or The Hills, or whatever else. However, I also find no reason to judge others for doing so. It's not like I am sitting on my vintage leather chair smoking a pipe and drinking scotch while I read Shakespeare every night. #therealhousewives
I am sorry, but I cannot hold my tongue any longer: Chynna Phillips is batshit and the American people NEED Neicey Nash in primetime, 5 days a week on network television.
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1. Never trust anyone who, mid-conversation, breaks out into an a-capella performance.
2. If your driver starts dry-shaving, tuck and roll out of that car.
@sebluver: yeah, when I think back to my college road trips, I'm kind of amazed I didn't die or get arrested. Or end up horribly disfigured.
The thing I don't get about dry-shaver is... don't you have a house? Why are you dry shaving, in a car no less? Do you sink-bathe yourself out of a cup of water in your car?
I watched the Objectum Sexuals documentary thing on youtube a while ago and found it super interesting, if still difficult to understand. I'll admit I'm sort of Tyra's team about "this is crazy," but I'll also freely admit that I could be a closed-minded jerkwad.
Anyway, the woman who was on Tyra has had some kind of superglam makeover, and I'm curious if this was addressed on the Tyra show and if they did it for her. If they glammed her up, I will be mildly irked that they felt the need. If she just decided to be glam on her own, I will let Tyra go on that one.
@Ultraprison!: She's from Wilson Phillips, with their wonderful hits 'Hold On' and 'Release Me' that play in supermarkets and convenience stores all the time.
@everythingsfree: I probably should be embarrassed that like 90% of my favorite music gets played in grocery stores, but I just feel like that's a perk!
I had to stop the GMA Chynna Phillips clip when she started the a capella rendition of her "beautiful" song from the album that Jesus is really rooting for (alongside her sister's incest book).
Yes, dumbass, Jesus made your father an incesty lech and put your sister through her hellish life so that YOUR ALBUM would have a boost on its release date. That was His big plan.
No, lady in pink, you are not a good driver. The people around you who have to swerve out of their lane after you almost hit them with your Escalade because you were on Facebook updating your status to "Off to tanning salon, then to Forever 21 to get new panties!!1! Luv u Mark! are the good drivers. You are just lucky other people know how to drive around assholes like you. Just wait till you cut in the lane of another idiot twittering and driving, and they don't get out of the way in time.
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1. Never trust anyone who, mid-conversation, breaks out into an a-capella performance.
2. If your driver starts dry-shaving, tuck and roll out of that car.
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Also, I should add I was in the car, and it was at that moment I got kind of worried I would die.
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The thing I don't get about dry-shaver is... don't you have a house? Why are you dry shaving, in a car no less? Do you sink-bathe yourself out of a cup of water in your car?
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Anyway, the woman who was on Tyra has had some kind of superglam makeover, and I'm curious if this was addressed on the Tyra show and if they did it for her. If they glammed her up, I will be mildly irked that they felt the need. If she just decided to be glam on her own, I will let Tyra go on that one.
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Though that background music is obnoxious.
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Yes, dumbass, Jesus made your father an incesty lech and put your sister through her hellish life so that YOUR ALBUM would have a boost on its release date. That was His big plan.
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