Bad Women’s Club
How tacky do you have to be to throw a bottle of wine at someone who spoke badly about you on Twitter? How juvenile do you have to be gossip about “the new girl” in your clique of recently divorced girlfriends? How insecure do you have to be to constantly ridicule a female peer who is trying to make career moves to better her future? VH1’s Love & Hip Hop and Basketball Wives make it clear that regardless of how old you are, how many times you’ve married an athlete or how many kids you have out of wedlock – it is never too late to be a bad girl.
Oxygen network’s show “Bad Girls Club” features a variety of women between the ages of 21 and 35 that are known for their “bad” and rebellious attitudes. Each season is packed with drama, fights and scandalous vacations overseas which is analogous to the content on Love & Hip Hop and Basketball Wives. The difference lies in the fact that the girls on the “Bad Girls Club,” self-diagnose their immature behavior by joining the show whilst the women on the two VH1 shows still suffer from anger management issues which are broadcasted on national television.
So what does one do when the only women of color they see on reality T.V. are women like 34 year-old Evelyn Lozada, ex-fiancé to Celtics player Antoine Walker and 42 year-old Chrissy Lampkin, girlfriend of 8 years to rapper Jim Jones? Not only are both of these women notorious for saying, “I’ll smack the b*tch everytime I see her,” but they both are the most popular according to Twitter trending topics. Does America find pleasure in watching grown women of color debase themselves for the sake of respect and higher ratings?
Reality T.V. has taken a 360 over the past decades and has veered away from the Caucasian Californian lifestyle of “Laguna Beach” and has began to focus more on shows that capture the lifestyles of minority women who have married into wealth. There are barely any shows that feature self-made women of color that did not need the finances of their rapper ex-husbands or athlete “baby-daddies, ” to jumpstart their careers.
Unfortunately there is no such things as a Bad Women’s Club so Evelyn and Chrissy can continue disguise their childish ways through deceiving show titles, but if there ever was, I’m sure they would be casted without any hesitation.
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