I have found a new love for two shows: “WifeSwap” and “Trading Spouses.” I am aware that the people they pick for these shows are purposely fucked up or just weird in general to create the type of drama and tension needed to keep the show interesting, but seriously… SERIOUSLY!? Some of the women on these shows make my XX chromosomes shudder with sadness. Some are just plan freakin nuts! The men are generally misogynistic assholes and all around pieces of shit. Currently I’m watching a Kentucky woman, whose mission in life is to keep a clean house and wait hand and foot on everyone around her including her huntin’, fishin’, “I’m the man” dirty ass husband (heavy southern accent included), swap lives with a woman who refuses to lift a hand around the house and has 4 kids but hates children and when asked why she had them, she said “Because I liked sex.” Niiiice.
You can find everything from carnies to massive organizers, pirate families to crazy Christian zealots, hippies to magicians, a Real Housewife of Orange County to the people who ate Clyde (you just had to see it).
These shows are probably the best self esteem booster you could ever hope for. These are shows that make me feel more normal than I could ever imagine.
Now enjoy the below clip of one of the biggest meltdowns I have ever witnessed in the history of reality television. This woman makes the Real World gang look like a mood suppressant filled version of the Cleavers.
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This is HILARIOUS! I don’t even know what to comment on first, the fact that the little girl looks terrified or the whole “dark-sided” wailing.
BTW, I heard that she did eventually accept the money.
By Dingo on 01.27.09 1:48 am | Permalink
oh she accepted it alright… probably because the other chick left her money for a gastric bypass.
By MsCatalysta on 01.27.09 8:39 am | Permalink
She was too much for me to take. I used to watch those shows, but it seemed too voyeuristic even for me. I guess there are some fallacies that I like to keep intact about people, otherwise I would just head for a cave somewhere.
By Laura on 01.27.09 2:04 pm | Permalink
I saw one episode of that show once, and whenever I think of it, I feel unbearably depressed on behalf of one henpecked husband and physically angry at his dumb, cruel, unpleasant, mannerless, ugly-on-the-inside wife.
Grrrrrrr.
By Foz Meadows on 01.27.09 8:45 pm | Permalink
That was seriously painful to watch…and yet I couldn’t look away.
By Julie on 02.02.09 3:36 pm | Permalink
GARGOYLES!!!
FozMeadows- yes it’s certainly depressing. however doesn’t it make you feel a little more normal?
Laura- after seeing this a cave doesn’t sound all that bad!
By MsCatalysta on 02.06.09 10:54 pm | Permalink
I think you should inform the blog community about something else recently happening.. I mean they have been devoted readers for quit some time now and I’m sure they will be excited to know of your recent news. = )
By katie on 02.24.09 1:45 pm | Permalink
*quite* spelling error
By katie on 02.24.09 1:45 pm | Permalink
Hi MsCat!!!! Haven’t seen a new update lately and was just wondering how you are doing! Hope to see a new post from you soon!
By Cereal Dieter on 03.04.09 4:49 pm | Permalink
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