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What to Expect When You're Watching Pregnant in Heels
Bravo's latest reality series, Pregnant in Heels, follows clothing designer and "Pregnancy Concierge" (which basically means just what you think it means: doing stuff for pregnant people) Rosie Pope as...
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Links ahoy!HuffPo reports on Rachel Maddow's statement that "[g]ay people—generally speaking—have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when...
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The 99%: "Talk like a Cover Girl" and the Classing of Voice on America's Next...
This past Wednesday, Tyra Banks crowned her seventeenth America’s Next Top Model, which means—in my estimation—that we have enough top models for several generations. Yet, I have a sneaking suspicion...
View ArticleMom & Pop Culture: The Reality of Reality TV Parenting
Okay, I’ll admit it. I have a (probably somewhat unhealthy) addiction to reality television. It started in the mid '90s with MTV’s The Real World, and only grew as shows like Survivor, Big Brother and...
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The 99%: Why the Real Housewives of Atlanta Aren’t "Our Kind of People"
Few women of color are allowed to represent themselves on television with much nuance; frequently they are reduced to stock characters like mammies and Jezebels that deny them full, complex humanity....
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Visi(bi)lity: America’s Next Top Bi Icon: Introducing Laura LaFrate
I have never been much of a reality television viewer, and any lingering desire I may have had to watch reality shows disappeared after I read Jennifer Pozner’s Reality Bites Back earlier this year....
View ArticleEnd of Gender: Bringin' Out the Bono
With hidden cameras and a hint of pedantry, ABC's primetime series What Would You Do? has tested society's comfort with everything from same-sex parents to public breastfeeding (see "Staged...
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Project Runway Season 10: Avant-Garded
It was an avant-garde "electric fantasie" on last night's Project Runway, and if you don't know what that means don't worry—the designers had no clue either.This is not our beautiful house.The...
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RuPaul's Drag Race: The Season Premiere's Best Moments Illustrated
RuPaul's Drag Race debuted its fifth season this week. If you've never watched the show, all you need to know is that it's the sparkling vision of glamazon mastermind, RuPaul. In this reality show...
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"Burning Love" is the Reality Dating Show Spoof You've Long Desired
Last week, NBC premiered Ready for Love, the latest bland iteration of reality dating shows. In the show, three interchangeable clean cut dudes pick from groups of interchangeable attractive women and...
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New Reality Show "Modern Dads" is Extremely Boring
Modern Dads is a new reality television show on A&E that follows the lives of four stay-at-home fathers in Austin, Texas. There have only been three episodes so far, but it probably won’t last long...
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