Its all in the name (REAL HOUSE WIVES)

The first post on POP culture POParazzi, i feel honored! I will be blogging about reality TV, specifically Desperate housewives, and all of the REAL housewive TV shows on Bravo, and the way these shows degrade women. The portrayal of women through these tv shows is not only degrading, but false. It often gives us a false reality that we start to believe and then try to achieve.
The Real Housewives of DC finale was the episode i watched this week and will be blogging about. This episode was filled with trashy, caddy, lying and cheating women that continuely put eachother down. Well, this was not only this week but happens every week in this thrilling show. This week was an interview with the four main women of the Real housewives of DC and Andy Cohen, who does the interviewing. He asks them personal questions about the show in intent to stir up some heat. Questions like, Was it true when you said Kat was a lying a bitch? then will play reruns of the episode in which this insult was made causing Kat to get frusterated and a fight erupts. We began to get so involved because everyone LOVES to watch drama on TV! and thats exactly what these shows bring. We watch these caddy women duke it on TV and we begin to be so involved that we can't help but tune in! Inside we start to compare ourselves to these women in thought that this is what a real women looks and acts like, and we subconciously strive for this unrealistic image.

This week Michaele was sort of chewed up and spit out by the other house wives, particularly Kat. There was more fighting, pointing fingers, and name calling then i have seen on the shows in awhile. All the women called Michaele out on her lying habbits. Specifically about being a redskins cheerleader. This was indeed a lie that michaele dug herself into deeper and deeper. Everyone knew the truth but she refused to admit it. The other women sort of ganged up on her so im sure she felt pretty alone. This incident makes these women look so confrontational and judgemental that it hurts just watching it. I felt bad even just being tuned in. I think that this was a perfect example of the misconception of women and being caddy. They made such a bad image just by being so confrontational which in result hurt someones feelings and then they felt no guilt. That is not a real women, atleast not to me! women are compassionate and most stay out of drama and steer free from intentionally hurting someones feelings. These are the atributes that are unrealistic for women and give females a bad name.

We watch the fighting, the argueing, the name calling, along with the perfectly dressesd, well mannered, usually rich with the perfect husband, women, and start to imagine that that is how life is, when in fact, it is not. This is what the media wants! for us to get involved in these shows so that we become so tuned that we cant stop watching. When we start to compare our lives to these TV shows thats when we know that were hooked! the media has got a hold of us. Yes, we are all victims of this, and all fall for it. I watch these shows every week, but now with a concious idea of media literacy and awareness of the unrealistic factor of it.
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By: CHELCIE