Answer: Trick question! There is no reason why you should feel bad for these people.
I’m not sure who I’m more angry with, The Daily Beast for conceiving of/writing/posting this piece, or the Housewives themselves. Luckily, I have more than enough bile to go around, so I don’t have to choose. The article - titled “Real Housewives, Real Problem,” using a definition of either “real” or “problem” I’m wholly unfamiliar with, apparently - describes the trials and tribulations these women are facing in the current harsh economic climate.
A few months ago, [Tamra Barney] let both a nanny and a maid go to save cash.
HOW IS TAMRA SUPPOSED TO LIVE? Is she supposed to touch dirty socks with her own hands? She is not an animal, people! Times are tough, we all know this. But has it gotten so bad that we have to watch a whole season of these spoiled tan-amatronics wander about in their mansions without any hired help? Oh, thank Heavens no:
Of course, things aren’t all doom and gloom in Orange County these days…We’ll still see the ladies receiving pricey jewlery from their husbands, buying their daughters nose jobs, and heading off for luxe vacations to Rome and Turks and Caicos this season. Meanwhile, the New York Housewives each reportedly rake in upward of $30,000 per episode—so one assumes the Orange County women are making a comparable amount.
Once when I was seven or eight, I visited a “game farm” in upstate New York. The only memory I have of this trip is a black bear, which was housed in a rather small pen, and which, for the entire five minutes we watched it, did nothing but rock back and forth in the center of the enclosure. I am that black bear right now. Listen, DB - I know what I do all day (which is think about new and exciting ways to write about Levi Johnston’s manhood). I know my place on the scale of “people doing important things.” But please, for the love of God and my own sanity, do not write about these women as having real problems.
Besides the personality and ethics ones, that is.
