The following article can be found at Salon.com:
Are “The Real Housewives” really flesh-eating zombies?
Why do Bravo’s trussed-up middle-aged stars have so much in common with “The Walking Dead’s” rotting corpses?
Funny, how true the comparison of zombies to Real Housewives is.
The “Real” word in the title is like a joke. For one thing, they are only real to that inner circles (1% of the 1%) that live anywhere close to that wealthy a lifestyle. Housewives is a term that means a woman who does not go out to work, but works at managing her household.
When you have 2 nannies, cooks, a housekeeper, not much is left to manage. Being a [Real Housewives] housewife is more like being a CEO of a small corporation. A CEO that is hardly ever around.
Then there is the “real” issue as to looks. Do these women look anything like the housewives I see or people in Beverly Hills see for that matter? They don’t hit the usual spots–grocery stores, Michael’s, Kid’s Kuts.
But, some of them look so plastic, you wonder what they looked like in their young natural days before all the plastic surgery had a chance to gel. Most of them are or were beautiful, but have put too much confidence in the plastic surgeon, often to their detriment.
The key to the Housewives’ show’s ratings is that it gives the average joe a chance to see that the coveted rich circle of women are even more miserable than they can be at times. Their husbands bigger jerks, their friends bigger backbiters, and the housewives perfom it alll in decadant surroundings and private jets.
-Karla Chase
