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What Happens When People Stop Beating Their Wives And Start Being Real…Politicians?
Kevin Powell, that guy from the first season of the Real World, is running for Congress, and the best comedian in the history of all comedy is performing a fundraiser for him tonight. I wonder if he'll riff on the John McCain "I stopped beating my wife" joke, since that literally is Kevin Powell's pitch to voters; back in the late eighties he assaulted women and today he is an activist promoting a "new kind of masculinity." You're probably skeptical, but don't be boring that way; his essay on ending violence against women is kind of compellingly prescriptive. Click the pic for a clip from Beyond Beats And Rhymes, one of the movies he recommends men watch "with other men, and watch them with an eye toward critical thinking, healing, and growth, even if they make you angry or very comfortable." [Huffington Post]
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The 20th Season Of The Real World Offers A House Of Horrors
Last night was the premiere of the 20th season of The Real World, and as you may have seen, some of the roommates are pretty awful. Another hateable guy was Will, who seems to have a crush on every girl in the house, particularly the one who dresses like a stripper. But when he found out that she actually is a stripper, he became giant dick by stereotyping her and deciding that she's the kind of girl that he would "make fun of." Clip above. More » -
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Real World Cast Member Gives New Meaning To The Phrase 'Fame Whore'
Above is an audition tape of one of the roommates who's been cast on MTV's newest installment of The Real World. (This time, they'll be getting drunk and making out in Hollywood.) Her name is Kimberly and she's kind of an amazing human being in that she has absolutely no idea just how completely reprehensible she is. (Seriously, she has to be seen to be believed.) She brags about her "headlights" (her nipples), repeatedly mentions how much she hates fat and/or ugly people, talks about the time she got so wasted she didn't remember how she lost all of her teeth, and expresses her desire to be famous. Congratulations, Kimberly! Your stupid dream has come true!
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How Did We Go From Riot Grrrls To Girls Gone Wild?
In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, depression diarist turned Yale law student Elizabeth Wurtzel lamented the failure of feminism in the aughts. In her typically rambling-though-insightful style, Wurtzel careened from the Spitzer scandal to Girls Gone Wild to Entourage, concluding that women are still "left choosing between, yet again, the madonna or the whore." In today's paper however, gender studies professor Hugo Schwyzer rebuts Wurtzel, reminding her that, "suggesting that feminism has failed because it hasn't eradicated misogyny is like complaining that the Civil War was for naught because racism still endures." Although Schwyzer makes a good point (and calls out Wurtzel's ever-present self-absorption), the Prozac Nation author's op-ed did get me thinking - just how did we get from the riot grrls of the early 90s to the Girls Gone Wild?Or rather, when did female sexual emancipation become not about pleasing ourselves, but about pleasing men? More » -
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Vintage Real World: Seattle's Stephen & Irene In "The Slap Heard 'Round The World"
Can you believe it's been 10 years since the Real World: Seattle!? That season marked the first time that a roommate actually laid a hand on another roommate in an aggressive manner. Actually, it was more passive aggressive, since Stephen slapped Irene (rather weakly) while she was in a moving car and then ran away. Irene had been having some sort of mental breakdown brought on by Lyme Disease, which led her to begin fighting with her roommates and ultimately ended with her leaving the house for good. On her way out, she brought Stephen in front of the cameras, and outed him. According to cast members after the fact, his sexuality was something he was struggling with off-camera, which explains his reaction. The clip above, which shows Stephen reviewing the fight footage, was filmed in 2000, and at the time, he maintained that he was not gay. However, just a year later, Stephen was arrested twice for prostitution, and once for stealing a 1988 Toyota Camry.
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The Real World: Dunbar Doesn't Get Why Women Don't Like Being Called "Stupid Bitches"
If you ever see Dunbar from The Real World: Sydney on the street, be sure to give him a swift kick to the nuts. The past couple of episodes of the show have been so misogyny-laden that they're more disturbing than the roommate' previous displays of disrespect, stupidity, and, well, even more stupidity. Dunbar has taken to calling all the girls in the house dumb, "stupid bitches", attacking their intelligence every time they disagree with him in any way, or don't want act submissive in his presence. (Granted, they don't seem like scholars by any means, but neither is that fucking meat head.) He also intimated that the girls in the house are only useful in one respect: sex. In the clip above, he tells one of the girls that she deserves to be degraded. More » -
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The Real World's KellyAnne Might Be The Worst Roommate Ever
It's safe to assume that we all agree that the cast of The Real World: Sydney sucks particularly hard, but KellyAnne takes the cake with being the worst waste of space. We've already learned that she has about one brain cell and is unable to carry on a conversation that makes any kind of sense, and after last week's display of straight-up mean girl-ness, spitting on the glass to the phone room where Parisa was sitting, we realized what a shitty person she is. But it gets worse! On last night's episode, she continued to ostracize Parisa, but when she saw that it wasn't the most popular decision and that everyone else was sorta relieved that Trisha was gone, she decided to grace Parisa with conversation again.
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Vintage Real World: L.A.'s David, Tami & Beth Get Into It
"It wasn't not funny!" is still a phrase that crawls through my mind, 14 years after Tami first shrieked it after her infamous fight with David when he ripped off her blanket on The Real World L.A. (Another one is a lyric from Tami's girl group, "I'm a slave, I'm a slave, I'm a slave to your lovin'/ I can't resist the fever of your kissin' and your huggin'.") And although David was wrong, Beth S. is the one who totally brought shit to the next level by riling up Tami, telling her that she should press charged, screaming that David "raped" her. Then Beth asked him if he grew up "in a tree," which to me implies that he is a monkey, which is completely fucking racist. The result was that David was the first ever Real World roommate to be booted from the house. More » -
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Vintage Real World: Miami's Dan & Melissa Throwdown
The fight on last night's episode of The Real World, although infuriating, wasn't really as great as some Real World rows from past seasons. Let's take a look at the clash between nosy, Latina roommate Melissa, and self-professed drama queen Dan, of 1996's Miami cast. Melissa was known to go through the other mansion-dwellers' things. She opened an unmarked envelope that turned out to contain valuable work material that belonged to Dan. Having reached his breaking point, he was ready to rip into her when she got home. He wasn't ready, however, to hear her call him a "faggot" and a "flamer." His reaction to it is pretty priceless. More »
