A-town Down

'You can find me in the A!!.I'm on It'

ATL is the latest city that Bravo hit up for the 3rd installment of its wildly popular Real Housewives series. The show follows five filthy rich females and chronicles their entertaining and luxurious lives while they navigate around the 'Black Mecca' known as Atlanta.

This time around the cast is predominately black, which is rare to see on general market television-[all black casts are usually saved for the niche markets i.e BET & TVOne]-this is a large factor in why the show caught my attention.
Most of the women are or were married to professional athletes and real estate moguls. In addition to enjoying the riches that their husbands have accumulated, some of them also get their own $$. -[which I can respect]

But what I find interesting is the amount of heavy criticism this show has been receiving on quite a few blogs. The Housewives have been called gold diggers, stuck up, a bad representation of women-[black women] etc..I don't recall the other two seasons catching this much flack for the way they lived their lives. The O.C & New York wives were considered fabulous, and their habits were the norm, but the Atlanta housewives are gold diggers..

why the double standard?

People are also saying that they are recklessly spending thousands on materials items when the country is in a recession..hmmm
So if we weren't in a recession would it then be ok to be wasteful with money?? No.
and the recession wont actually effect the rich..at the end of the day they'll still be wealthy and considerably comfortable. The poor wont be effected either because they never had anything to begin with, so in essence they have nothing to lose. It is the middle class that will feel the brunt of the recession...

I digress..

At the end of the day it is just entertainment, I never understood how people can get so wrapped up and angry at how others choose to live their lives-esp these folks on reality shows. It will never be that deep. These women have money, they are still getting money, they're doing them.
The End.

Watch the Show--Tuesdays @ 9Pm--on Bravo