May 19 2009
Reality TV in Black & White
As we should all know by now, I love reality TV. But I am SELECTIVE about what I will watch. That’s like saying I LOVE trash, but I will only eat from certain garbage cans, I know! ANYWHO…
I was watching the GYM known as Charm School. A little history on this reality tv classic: It was originally hosted by Mo’Nique who, after watching the chicks on Flavor of Love show their azzes literally & figuratively decided to reach one, tech one. Since then, attention whores from Rock of Love and Flavor of Love have been showed the way to Ladydom by Sharon Osborne & now the wayward hoes of Real Chance of Love and Rock of Love Bus are being escorted down a less wayward path by Ricki Lake. So last night I was watching what AMAZINGLY is only the second episode of season 3 and there was a CLEAR “cultural” divide.
The “blonde-tourage” from Rock of Love were ganging up on one particular chick from Rock of Love a former porn star turned Holy Saint… *eyeroll*. And when I say ganging up, I MEAN IT! They were initiating & instigating things with her. At one point, they came into her room and locked her in the bathroom. Then they thought it was a good idea to feed her while she was in there so they shoved hot dogs under the door. Where at do they do that?
The Real Chance of Love girls are loud and mean. But they have yet to resort to physical violence. There is one little mousy one named Bubbles who likes to talk NONSENSE. She will get ganged up on verbally, but no one has ever put their hands on her or locked her in the bathroom.
So what is my point? My point is that CULTURALLY, passive aggressive cruelty seems to be much more acceptable to non-Blacks than in your face loud smack talk. This is RIDICULOUS! In urban American culture, you have to be loud, you have to be aggressive, you have to be in-your-face; or you will be run over, overlooked and/or looked down upon. It is a survival skill. Just the opposite, it seems, is the suburban or predominately white culture that thinks that outright cruelty, mean-spirited jokes & overall catty foolishness is the way to remain dominant.
Let’s weigh these 2 cultural phenomenons:
locking someone in the bathroom as “just a dumb joke” vs. getting up in someone’s face & yelling really loudly
Only ONE of these things can get you arrested… yet the other can get you expelled from Charm School. What happened last night was ALMOST a racial divide, but moreso cultural because there were non-black women that sided with the black women (KO).
In the first episode the Rock of Love girls got stumbling drunk. And one mother of 3 pulled out another woman’s hair while the RCL girls looked on in horror. In this last episode, the RCL girls ganged up on Bubbles in a yelling match but never once put their hands on her or locking her in a room. Yet the Rock of Love girls got drunk, got rowdy & locked someone in the bathroom and somehow, that was okay. One of the Rock of Love girls even SAID: “I didn’t want to be on Real Chance of Love for a reason…” I’m wondering what reason that was. Maybe because she knows had she locked an RCL girl int he bathroom there would have been no worse fury in HELL than when they let her out. Maybe because she knows that she would have had it coming from all the “scary, ghetto girls” had she tried any sort of sabotage or shenanigans.
What ever the case, I cannot wait to see how this season ends because those Rock of Love girls have much to learn about what is & is not acceptable!
