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In fairness, I don't think the poster was saying that Meghan's handling of this was off-limits to criticism because she's a woman. They were specifically referencing comments about Meghan lying about having a miscarriage and being dishonest about the experience in order to gain public attention. This is specifically what I think the poster felt was crossing the line and felt that as a woman, there are some parts of her experience that should be respected and received...like the fact that it happened. Personally, I don't feel comfortable saying that she's lying. I'd like to believe anyone who claims to have gone through such an experience (unless evidence suggests that their story doesn't line up) but I also don't think it's crossing the line to question Meghan's intentions in releasing this information in the way she did and the timing of it as well...but questioning that doesn't take away from I'm sure was a difficult time for her to go through.

Ashley's TH wig...WTF girl. We know Michael pays you well enough to stand by his man grabbing ass self...do better with that wig. Also, Ashley's scenes this episode seem totally contrived in an attempt to shift the discussion away from Michael's sexual assault charges and focus on her 'my daddy left me' story. I saw it as manipulative attention to shift favour, the same way she's used her miscarriage and wanting a baby to rationalize why it's somehow different when others come or her and her marriage. I'm sure there is genuine sadness about her father not being in her life and also as seeing Michael as a paternal figure but I don't feel like we saw an authentic experience this episode with her. It's clear to me that Candiace went to therapy, not for the realization that there are things she needs to fix in order to repair her relationship with her mother, she just thinks it's all her mother's problems to sort out so that things can be well. She told her mother that she can only set goals that within her control, then Candiace proceeded to list goals that involved correcting her mother's behaviour and not her own. And when her mother called her out for having the same behaviour as her, instead of acknowledging it, she called her mother the shade monster. Candiace is a brat who thinks that her problems are a result of everyone else and they need to fix it so that she can be happy. Monique's children always make me smile. Milani is so damn precious! Gizelle's daughters are beautiful but I don't know how much I would feature my children on a reality show if they were at that age. It's just such a precarious age to be exposed in front of the cameras but I trust Gizelle knows her children better than I do. Hope she's made strides with Angel in giving her the attention and affection she needs from her mom.

I know Meghan has said that she's not sure about having kids but becoming pregnant can change someone's view on that and I do feel for her loss. I can also understand the way a woman may feel shame or guilt of not doing enough to protect their child but it's hard to focus all of my energy on empathizing with her loss when she really talks about herself as a martyr and uselessly follows it up with 'don't feel sorry for me'. She made it seem like she was willing to fall on the sword in an effort to stand up for all women how miscarry and are shamed for it. We already live in a fucked up society, there's no need to create pretend issues just so you can stand up and act like you're going to be the saviour. That shame is often part of that woman's emotionally journey in trying to understand why she miscarried, not a journey that she's forced to experience because others are shaming her. Sure, there's some people that would find blame in the woman, but that isn't the prevailing feeling when people hear about a woman having miscarried. A LOT of high profile women and everyday women share these stories EVERY DAY...just because they aren't putting it in the New York Times doesn't mean that they aren't using their platforms in whatever way possible to open that door of sisterhood to all of the women who have had to go through that trauma. There's a lot of things that people say that Meghan has chosen not to address, I don't believe that she was forced to reveal this information. It's okay for her to speak on it but she's just always so extra and it's hard to really keep all of my energy focused on her loss but not to make all of this negative, I hope that she's healing well from her experience. If it's made her more open to the idea of having children and possibly excited about it, then I wish her the best of luck in that journey.

As long as Sonja and Dorinda think they don't have a problem because they've managed to avoid getting arrested the way Lu did, they will continue to drink, continue to deny that they have issues with the way they handle their alcohol and they will continue to think they're better than Lu because of it.

I didn't like that they let Dorinda get away with not taking accountability for her fundraiser faux pas by exaggerating Lu's anger over the fish room. Lu didn't draw attention of restaurant goers the way Dorinda rudely interjected in front of a room full of donors and the fundraiser guest and then had Ramona not back down to only make the situation that much more awkward. Lu has had her fair share of fuck ups but on the RH show, she has been quite aware in removing herself from situations where a public spectacle begins unfolding. I felt bad for Tinsley. The women piled on her and her finances and how she pays for her lifestyle and tried to justify the insinuations about her basically hoeing herself out for a grand lifestyle as them feeling like she doesn't really share her life with them or for the cameras.

ONE month later...1.5 months tops, lol. They met around the beginning of August 2018 and had their baby at the end of June 2019. Calculating backward, she would have been pregnant around mid-late September of 2018. I wonder what brought Luis back to real estate in NYC. He's described some pretty dark times so like you mentioned, hope he's in a better place to be doing the show again.

Correct me if I've misunderstood what Kyra said but did she basically say that her issue with her relationship with Chasel is basically because she only wants to jump his bones some of the time and not all of the time? I also found Chasel to be unbearable this episode. He quickly started telling the guys about how committed he is to Kyra while she's slow to open up but it was just a couple of days ago that HE told her that he wanted to be open to meeting new women that come in and he was actively trying to get Christen to choose him for her date. His relationship talk only became an issue when Krya caught the eye of a new guy coming in. It was such a manipulative move by Chasel and Krya doesn't appear too bright to have caught on. I was surprised to see Yamen cry over Christen having to leave. Sucks that they had to vote only one person per couple but I get that they wanted it that way to amp up the drama of having more singles in the house to get in the mix as new people show up.

Isn't it funny how she's allowed to be critical of Republicans and Conservatives and call them out for misrepresenting what she stands for but when Ana does this, she constantly questions whether Ana is really a Republican and why she stills calls herself a Republican? Just add it to the long list of examples of how Meghan McCain has zero self-awareness and is mostly concerned with herself and how the world and its people affect her ability to continue to exist in her privileged bubble.

I personally didn't take her comments that way. The reason most parents create college-specific savings for their kids is so that their kids can pursue an education and come out with no debt or at least a little less debt than they would have without those savings. Sunny's position was based on the fact that since the kid would be paid via an apprenticeship to learn on the job, then that money can go to his siblings to help further minimize their future college debt since the savings was created for all of them. She agreed that he should get the money if he had to go to a technical school to learn the trade. She also agreed that he should get the money if he wanted to open his own business after his apprenticeship. I don't know if apprentices are responsible for purchasing their own tools (which are expensive), but I'm sure she would also have agreed that he should get the money if that's the case. I think her point of view was that if he was going to be paid to learn (and apprenticeship often create opportunities to transition into a job opportunity), then he doesn't need the money for the purpose in which it was put aside. But based on the exceptions that she noted, if there were circumstances where his education in some way or another would put him in debt, then she would likely agree that he should get the money.

I did a quick search after my post and what I read lines up with what my memory recall. LVP did ask for time off and Andy did tell her on WHHL that in hindsight they should have let her taken the time off (source: ET and People). I haven't read anywhere that she was offered...but it could have been a situation where she initially asked for time off and then when Bravo came back around to entertain her request she changed her mind. I said from the get-go that comparing her filming VPR to RHOBH isn't the same for the same reasons you mentioned. On VPR, Lisa has more control of her image and the discussions she has with the others on the show while on RHOBH, she can't control what others say about her or to her and you're forced to deal with the fallout. Not at all surprised that she would continue to film VPR. She can be as involved or not involved as she wants.

Oh true...that's also a possibility. Seeing how out of touch she's been during this season, I really hope that post is representative of her being in a better place mentally and emotionally because it was far more coherent than anything else we've seen from her lately.

I wouldn't be surprised...but also, my comparison is watching dating shows like Ex on the Beach and Are You The One? where they cast at least one crazy girl who claims a man off the bat and gets super territorial and at least another who thinks every damn person is their match, lol. These people are a nice change of pace from that kind of crazy, lol.

Given her inexperience and expressing her desire to be booed up, I don't think Alana realizes this yet. She's still so young and without meeting and dating people, she doesn't really know what she wants or what she's attracted to. She just thinks she wants a committed relationship and she relies on physical attraction and having attention given to her as some form of validation. She's got plenty of time to figure herself out. While the valley girl speak is grating because SO many of the women do it, I find that this cast is a bit against the grain in terms of personality and I don't mind it. These shows love to mix personalities to incite drama and they tend to always look for those personalities in the women and not men... and so far it's been pretty low key with this group of women generally all getting along and quite understanding of the process - trying not to step on any toes but also having conversations and dishing out apologies to each other because they aren't basing their decisions on pettiness (at least not yet). I'm sure they're all there promoting themselves and trying to increase their social media following but two weeks in and no one has sold their soul to the devil for some camera time. I mean, Caro is a lot but I don't think she's fronting.

Katie sounds more put together in those posts (and on point with her commentary) than she has all season long in her daze. It took someone insulting her home (though I don't know specifically what Ashley said) but Ashley is messy as fuck and I don't doubt that she would say something shady. She wants to dish it and she has been using her fertility situation as a way to cover from all of the shit that would otherwise be thrown her way due to her messy ass and her husband's ass grabbing ways. In past seasons, In the past, I quasi-defended Ashley's messiness because she at least aired some of her marital struggles but damn...in hindsight, seeing how hard she's gone in on these women and to think her issues we've seen was just only scratching the surface of her marital setup is just insane. Girl sit down and shut up.

Take this with a grain of salt because I'm going off my memory of things I've read on here that recapped what was being written and said elsewhere. I recall reading that Lisa had said she asked Bravo for a year off following her brother's death and that in retrospect, she regretted not taking the leave anyway...though I don't recall ever reading why Bravo denied her request. And then when she was on WWHL with Andy, he made a comment that he thought that they should have given her the year off because in hindsight it was clear that she was not mentally ready to deal with the show.

When was that said? Because I could have sworn that in the Bahamas episodes, there was a TH of Kyle vouching for Teddi because Teddi showed her the texts in the Bahamas. One clearly happened before the other. So if Kyle knew before the Vanderpump Dogs scenes, then she played dumb and helped incite the conversation on air. So many changes parts to this story.

I didn't like anyone's head to toe look though Denise stuck out to me because she looked far off the 'theme' this season. I would say that I liked Erika's look the best though in some angles it wasn't totally on point for me. The blue was beautiful on her. I don't agree with LVP saying that the women were harassing her. It's certainly a fair point that she has not been in contact with any of the women so they can't technically harass her. There was a better point to make and she didn't make it. I don't understand Teddi's explanation. To say you were never friends with John Blizzard and yet didn't think twice about confirming directly with Lisa about what he was saying is just all kinds of odds especially when she had described Lisa as a friend. Teddi knew what John was telling her was shady and it was implicating her 'friend' as well as herself. I just don't understand why anyone with any common sense would have relied on information from someone they admittedly didn't have a genuine relationship with. Also, Teddi said that she knew the moment Lisa tried to quash the dog talk that Lisa was setting her up to be the only one to take the fall...and yet Teddi didn't speak on the issue until AFTER Lisa was quashing the talk. Teddi is covering her ass just as much as Lisa is about knowing at least something about the set up. Seeing all of the women so sure of themselves of LVP making an appearance for dramatic flair only to know that it's not going to happen...maybe they don't know as much as they think they do.

I don't think he would qualify for Master Chef...unless they've changed the concept, Master Chef is about home cooks that don't have professional culinary training and/or is not a professional chef. He could potentially sign up for the other options, though I wouldn't recommend Hell's Kitchen just because it's a show that prioritizes the drama over the talent. I don't think Candiace respects anyone enough to listen to something that she isn't ready or wanting to hear and accept right now. Her response to Chris making the comparisonto her mother was to get angry, cry and make up a BS excuse for how the situations are totally different and their behaviours are not even the same. Just last week she was pulling out a tissue and dabbing her eyes because her mother diminishes her feelings yet the moment her husband pointed out that she fights like her mom and she treats him the way her mother treats her, she didn't hesitate to diminish his feelings when he was expresses to her how she makes him feel when she gets angry. When it comes to her own flaw,s Candiace barely tries to act like she's woke. The reality is that she can barely see past her own nose and in her mind she doesn't need to because it's all about her anyway.

I'm an episode behind here. I like that Caro is not catty with the women and understands the game in that sense, but her interactions with the men are so cringy. That baby voice and the flighty mannerisms are irritating and she's been especially rude to Cormac with her hot and cold behaviour. She went around telling people that there was nothing between them, then she picks him and says she wanted to 'try' but this is after she friend-zoned him and then she's upset that he isn't 'trying' as well. She's upset that he's likely waiting for new girls to arrive but she's in the same boat. She's waiting on new guys to arrive to set her sights on...at this point, she's just doing what she needs to stick around for it. Mallory needs to go. She friend zones Weston, and then had an immediate reaction to hearing that he also didn't feel anything for her and then she gets insecure when the other girls come in. She's likely more threatened about her spot on the show than she is about Weston giving them any attention but Mallory seems like that snobby girl that expects the guy to do all of the work and to be fawning over her. She hasn't really tried with anyone and the moment someone actually chose her for something (her date with Dylan..is that his name), the first thing she does is fish for compliments, asking why he chose her to come on the date. I don't really get Yamen and right now, his appeal is based on the fact that some of these women just want to uncover some of the aloofness he's got going on. Doesn't necessarily mean they'll like what they find. I did like his interaction with Katrina. It was the most human-ness I saw from him outside of him just hanging out with the guys. Both the new girls are gorgeous and seem really chill but Christen does have a badass yet sweet vibe to her that I like. Was happy she didn't choose Chasel because for certain he would have been pumping his own tires.

I haven't seen the reunion yet but I would have expected this from Andy given the situation. Outside of LVP and Camille, the women were mostly kumbaya. To make a 3 part reunion where one controversial woman didn't even show up and the other is only a 'friend of' and doesn't start or end on the couch, he had a lot of time to fill. They did their research and it seems they'll be pulling a lot of things out of the woodwork that was unrelated to the show and/or intentionally chosen to be kept off-camera by the women because they have time to fill.

I didn't mind that they were talking about the wedding in their own circle. It' not like you got to a birthday party and every conversation in the room is about the birthday person but when Tamika comes over and says 'how' it going?' and you try to bring her into the wedding talk about yourselves when it's HER birthday party, that was just stupid etiquette.

Sadly, it seems the existence of her kids has vanished from her IG page...likely to do with her ongoing custody battle. I do also think that her custody battle is partly the reason for her odd behaviour this season but I'd guess she was medicated in some way due to the stress that was causing her. If I'm not mistaken, she miscarried in February at 5 months with her ex-boyfriend (she's since broken up with the guy we saw in this episode and is dating someone new) so I think she would have been in her early stages of pregnancy in this recent episode (probably didn't even know yet that she was pregnant). If the stress of not having her kids was enough to miscarry her last pregnancy, I certainly would find it easy to believe that the stress was enough to be given medication of some kind to help keep her calm. Feel bad for her as well...she's suffered a lot recently but for the sake of her custody battle, it's probably for the best that she didn't publicize all of that information on the show.

I personally find it hard to understand how she can lament just how much the Republican party has changed but is also very quick to brag about how Republicans keep their eyes on the prize and bigger picture....this is basically why her party didn't speak out and exactly why she shouldn't have expected them to. They're keeping their eyes on the prize and protecting their political careers, particularly those in states where Trump has a huge following.

We still have to see what more Tamika is flopping on with respect to Reagan but I already feel the situation presents itself as unfair. Reagan didn't think about Tamika when she was playing house with her boyfriend who Tamika had never met and knew little of their relationship. She didn't care to give her best friend a heads up about her engagement nor was her best friend the one she shared her baby news with first or potential baby names with within their group of friends. Tamika has been an afterthought in Reagan's life and that's fair...life happens and you can't always be around your friends the way you used to be but it's unfair to all of a sudden decide that your best friend needs to be there for all of these important dates you've made for your shotgun wedding. I absolutely love the supporting players to this cast. It was sweet of Tamika to surprise her brother and it was sweet to see how surprised and appreciative he was. Rachael just gets better each time I see her. Kelsey should straighten her hair more. It softens her features whereas her usual hairstyle doesn't really do much for her strong features. I get Kelsey's frustrations with Justin but she is partly responsible for her situation as well because she chooses to stay. I know walking away is much easier said than done but it shouldn't be ignored that Kelsey also has agency in her relationship and it's not all on Justin. It's clear that something is holding Justin back and for all of what Kelsey gives him in the relationship, it makes him appreciate her as the person in his life but it also gives his non-committal attitude any incentive to lock it down. It's a tough position for her to be in especially since Justin is well-established at this point in his life so there's really no excuse that will make sense to her as to why he's not married. Really felt for Jeff. He’s clearly dealing with a lot and while I question whether this show is a good thing for his journey to better mental health, I do think he has a genuine self-awareness to himself and a desire to be better and so I can’t help but root for him.

I think the dynamics are different on this show because they are all connected via various longstanding relationships that existed long before the cameras arrived. To me, their interactions and drama seem more real and I've also noticed that they all seem to be quite empathetic toward one another even when they get on each other's nerves and I think it's because they're invested in one another well beyond the show. I don't know if it was Jeff's assumption or if he had received an actual medical diagnosis but it was thought that he may be suffering lingering effects of CTE which is a degenerative brain disease that is caused by repetitive brain trauma (unfortunately quite common in footballer players especially). I don't know how much personality plays a factor but I think seeing his spiral is a combination of his brain history, drinking and dealing with personal challenges. He recently said that he's been going to a therapist and has stopped drinking which has made a huge difference for him. I don't recall if he mentioned when she started therapy and giving up booze though.