It took me a while to get into the first season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta because of what is exactly tackled in the blog post about it over at Racialicious.
The Real Housewives franchise was around for a few years featuring all white casts before RHOA came along and everyone had a snarky good time watching these delusional women lives their lives in front of the camera. As soon as the majority all black cast came along, animal, ghetto and men in wigs references became endless for a few women who are spotlighted as the embodiment of the African-American race.
And on a sidenote: FUCK Bethenny Frankel. The author plainly lays out why I feel this way. This bitch doesn't have a house nor could make herself a wife with her pre-owned ex-"fiancee" who didn't want anything to do with her cranious-maximus ass. Get bent, you pasty wench.
What's Worse: The Real Housewives of Atlanta or Race-Based Criticism of It?
Excerpt:
My point–As far as I can tell, nearly all of the Real Housewives are bullying, narcissistic, back-stabbing, money-grubbing, cliquey, disloyal, arrogant, self-involved, willfully ignorant, poorly spoken, wasteful and tackily nouveau riche. It makes for good television. But the Orange County, New York and New Jersey wives are not seen as representative of white culture or white womanhood. They are not discussed using racialized terms. And no white folks are spending time being embarrassed by their hijinks. By contrast, the Atlanta dysfunction is positioned as uniquely black, confirmation of a host of stereotypes about poor, ignorant, urban people; loud, angry black women; and shiftless black men with myriad baby mamas.
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Was it “hood” when New Jersey housewife Theresa lost her shit and flipped a table during a loud imbroglio in a swanky restaurant?
Please read the entire post over at Racialicious.
