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  1. Bethenny's look was the only one I liked. In fact, I really liked it. But all of the others really missed the mark. Dorinda looked like she was dressed to be a stand-in for an Oscar statue. Sonja promoting her collection...is she the only person who actually wears her clothes? Because the only time I seem to remember it exists is at the reunion. Also, I didn't find it flattering on her at all. Sometimes I think these women forget that when selecting their outfits, they need to be most mindful of how it looks with them sitting on a couch because that's what the viewers see for 3 episodes. I thought Lu did her best to cop to her behaviours but also remind everyone of her struggles. Given how often she's mentioned her sobriety and challenges on the show, I felt that apologies at this point don't need to be prefaced or followed up with 'I was going through a lot' because it rings hollow. Just say 'sorry' and leave it alone. I don't know if any of this is actually going to make Lu more tolerable about her sobriety and especially about her cabaret but I guess we'll see. Dorinda was shooting daggers at Lu from jump but I'm glad they hugged it out. I honestly prefer them as friends but let's see how the other 2 episodes ride out between those 2.
  2. Gizelle has and will always be messy. Ashley giving Gizelle a pass because she's always been that way and that's just the friendship she accepts while holding Robyn to a different standard...the same Robyn who was put on the spot to address what she heard...and most importantly, the same Robyn who Ashley went around talking shit about when it came to her finances and her relationship with Juan. Karma is a bitch and she's got Ashley's number and I don't feel at all bad for her for it. I'm just curious when it's gonna be Gizelle's turn. Candiace was acting a whole fool with Monique. Monique was only trying to show her how she was coming off to the group and that no matter how she feels, at some point if you become dog with a bone, people are going to stop listening to what you're saying about the other person and focus all on you and why you're so obsessed. I knew Candiace was very similar to her mother before this episode but when her demeanor did a total 180 during her conversation with Chris, I swear my initial reaction was 'fuck, has she always looked like the spitting image of her mother?'. Now I can't get it out of my head and throughout the entire episode, when she was acting a fool, it was her mother's face I kept seeing. It's unfortunate that she fails to see what's so obvious to others and it's stunting her personal growth as a person. Instead of becoming better than the thing that she feels holds her down, she has become just like it and anchors down others who challenge her. I'm done with Ashley. In the past I gave her the benefit of the doubt that maybe there was some semblance of realness in her feelings for Michael but with acknowledging her issues with Michael yet still wanting a baby, I'm convinced that her relationship is of convenience and ensuring she secures the bag...which she now has with the birth of her son. Ashley's denial of accusations against Michael seem purely out of self-preservation and I don't fuck with that. I think she's sold every ounce of her own integrity and truthfulness. And her calling out Karen...that's rich given the shit she said about Karen's money issues just last season and she quickly went there in their confrontation. I'm glad that Karen threw that soap comment back at her. Edit: I forgot to throw a shout to Katie's toast about grabbing asses. I don't know what has caused such a difference in her but it's got her acting like she's from a different universe, lol.
  3. I apologize for misquoting you but based on your clarification, I would still stand by the point that the note was basic in its sentiment and as I said, there's nothing wrong with that...it also doesn't make it any less sweet of a gesture. It's fine if you think it was a not basic note, I just want to be clear that just because I said the note was not unique doesn't mean that it can't be thoughtful or sweet. I happen to think both those things can and are true. To the bolded, I didn't accuse you of not appreciating those things - I don't even remember who had said it so I can't even be certain it was you as I read the sentiment a few times when scrolling through. My point being, from the comments stressing the thoughtfulness of the handwritten notes, it took focus away from other gestures LEAVING THE IMPRESSION that one was more well received than the other. I'm sure it was all appreciated but it came across as one gesture being more appreciated or thoughtful than the others. The irony being that it comes across as exactly what LVP did. She never said she never appreciated the note, but she made clear that she found another method more meaningful given where she and Erika were in their relationship. Erika and LVP are were work friends and Erika did what a work friend would do...it seems convenient to ignore the part where LVP pointed out that she thought her and Erika had become more than that and had started a real friendship. The crux of the issue as it was raised in that conversation wasn't that Erika's gesture wasn't appreciated or inappropriate, it was that both women saw each other's relationship to one another in different ways. LVP thought she and Erika had grown closer and so her expectation was more than what a co-worker would offer. Erika saw their relationship as being 'able to have a good time but I still don't trust you and you're still just a co-worker' and she responded as a co-worker would. Not every situation has to have a good guy and bad guy. I see it from both their perspectives and I think both their feelings and expectations were valid but I put more onus on LVP for how she handled the situation.
  4. If LVP has enough fans to carry a show where it's just her (I'm not sure in what capacity this would really be done) then I guess that would be great for her to get their dose of her. Reality TV is often premised with the expectation of drama and snark...that's just what it's grown into and I can't imagine a show where she wouldn't be required to either be a part of the drama or around the drama. I personally wouldn't watch it unless I liked the premise of it. I don't like anyone enough in the reality tv world to watch a show just for them.
  5. I can't remember all of them but I really liked Joyce. She stood up for herself, she was honest without being mean, she wasn't instigating drama for the sake of it and I thought she was quite patient but also fiesty when she needed to be. For all the reasons that I really liked her, it's probably all the reasons why she didn't last more than one season, lol. Maybe if she was willing to play the game and stick around longer, that shine would have worn off so perhaps having only one season under her belt is the only reason I'm able to remember her fondly.
  6. To be fair to the poster's point, you said Erika's note was unique - they were pointing out that it wasn't unique...because it wasn't. But I would also argue that that's okay. I think it was a sweet gesture - any gesture that includes someone taking a moment to acknowlege your feelings and be thinking of you is a sweet gesture to me. That said, I think people are projecting too much on this situation and mischaracterizing it. While I do think that LVP shouldn't have brought it up, especially in front of the women, she contextualized her comment by pointing out that she had thought that she and Erika had reached a friendship with one another and so the note seemed impersonal. If your friend suffered loss and you aren't comfortable with picking up the phone and calling that friend, then you probably aren't all that close of friends and that was part of the point LVP was making. Part of friendships is extending ourselves to those we care about in their time of need. You put their comfort above your own. Maybe LVP's hurt was because she felt Erika didn't do enough...or maybe it was a realization that maybe she doesn't have the relationship she thought she had with Erika. Our bias about LVP will likely determine which way we look at it, in the end, we're all making assumptions because I know for certain that some of the way people are characterizing are not any words that actually came out of LVP's mouth. In the end though, LVP wasn't wrong about misreading her relationship with Erika. She was quick to call her the dark cloud that made its exit as soon as she left this season. And I just want to point out the irony of some people going out of their way to make the point that handwritten gestures are the sweetest. I came across one comment that said handwritten notes were the most personal and that it was nice to go back and be able to read the notes and be reminded of the people in your life that were there for you. Does it then make it fair for me to assume that that person was not at all thankful for the phone calls they received, the flowers that came to their door or their visitors who came with food in hand...all because none of those things left behind tangible evidence of it ever happening? That would be ridiculous to assume just as it is to assume that a person saying 'I thought we were good enough friends that you would have called me' is equivalent to 'your note was meaningless and hollow and a waste of my time'. If you have a shoebox of condolence notes and it warms your heart to have that then be thankful that you have people in your life that know YOU well enough to provide the kind of support that in the long run, has been a huge benefit to your grieving process. Not everyone is the same and has the same needs. I come from an immigrant family. If I sent a handwritten note, gauranteed all of the old folk in my family wouldn't be able to keep my name out of their mouth. For family and good friends, you show up to their door everyday for at least a week and between all of those who show up, food, drinks and cutlery...it all comes into that house so that that grieving family doesn't lift a finger. People have different experiences that shape expectations and what they consider appropriate behaviour/responses to what happens around them. When we differ, sometimes it's really just because we're different. Good relationshps will surive that learning curve. Clearly LVP and Erika weren't one of those good relationsihps.
  7. I didn't really understand Naiomi's hang-up about going on the trip other than she was genuinely worried about Metul being low key angry with her if she went knowing Craig would be there. In truth, it wouldn't matter if people said Craig was not over her, it's not like Craig has ever crossed a line with her or disrespected her relationship with Metul. He wasn't going to go to Colorado and sneak into her bed at night in an effort to win her back. It seemed drawn out because of her own insecurity but hopefully now that conversation is out of the way they can feel comfortable interacting more without feeling super awkward about it. I got a good chuckle upon Ashley's entrance, you see and hear Craig in the background pretending to mingle with other people so that he doesn't have to acknowledge her presence, lol. Ashley was pretty brazen to show up to that event knowing the others would be there, but she was also pretty brazen to say to a mother that she was just an egg donor. I don't doubt that Patricia talked shit about Kathryn to Ashley, but I also don't doubt that Patricia probably said a lot of things she got from Thomas and/or her son. While I think Patricia extending a welcome to Ashley was purely to piss off Kathryn, I feel like Ashley is deflecting all of the blame onto Patricia in an effort not to trash Thomas. And also, the moment Patricia distanced herself from Thomas, it seems all of the social benefits of being with Thomas vanished which is what their relationship hard. She thought she was going from being a dime a dozen in California to a socialite in Charleston. If Patricia was all to blame for the negative opinions she has about Kathryn, then she would try to make amends with Kathryn for giving in to lies fed to her, not continually trash Kathryn online. Naiomi isn't wrong, people should be scared of Ashley because she's fucking unstable. The way she made her voice quiver when she said that she never meant to hurt anyone and that she needed to have more empathy for people and as soon as it was brought up that her realization doesn't seem that genuine because she was literally talking shit just a week ago, the devil in her started to snap and she tells the woman to keep her mouth shut. She denied calling Naiomi a bitch and when there was a witness there that confirms she did say it, she says 'well I said because...'. I wouldn't want anything to do with that lunatic either.
  8. And she tries not to give it life when on the show by trying to convince people that she's only disliked for her political opinions, Even without knowing any of the behind the scenes stuff, her on-air attitude is more than enough to receive judgment and criticism.
  9. I have to hand it Sunny, she has iced out Meghan with the utmost professionalism. Her body language says 'I don't fuck with you anymore' but the way she engages with the panel as a whole isn't out of step. She continues to finish her thoughts but she doesn't engage with Meghan and she certainly hasn't bantered with her since that leak was published. I can't figure out why Meghan and her team would think Sunny of all people would be responsible for leaking behind the scenes information. The one person whose career is supposed to be intertwined with ethics is going to be the person to put herself in the middle of potential controversy and risk her professional reputation? Sunny has nothing to gain from leaking information and she is the only one on that panel that really gives Meghan the time of day outside of the show so she just lost her work friend and drinking buddy. I always felt that Sunny was the one that linked Meghan to the rest of the group because she seemed to go more out of her way to get to know Meghan more personally. If the show is investigating the leaks, I assume they wouldn't go to the trouble without handing out some consequences...so how will they handle Meghan knowing that it was her camp that released information to the public that accused a colleague of something with no evidence? Also, I just have to point out the hilarity that Meghan is upset with her behind the scenes bad behaviour being leaked to the press. A hard life lesson is passing her by here - stop putting your energy into finding out who is leaking truths about you and just put that energy into being a better person.
  10. @pally Thanks that makes sense. I didn't know he had offices outside of NYC so I figured there might be a possibility that he's trying to wean himself off work a bit. Instead, he's taking on more work, lol.
  11. I could have sworn Dorit's dress was similar (that look was really trendy just this past winter). Dorit didn't have the plunging neckline but it as the velvet material and I'm pretty sure it had the same gathered fabric in the front just like Kyle's. I thought Dorit looked good at the party but I think it's because she let her dress be the statement piece. Her make-up was natural, jewelry was minimal, hair was pulled back and not over the top. Maybe confidence has something to do with it and maybe it's wrong of me to say, but especially recently, I find Kyle's glamour looks to be quite underwhelming and seemingly trying too hard. It just feels like she uses fashion to be trendy and Kardashian-lite than she does to be a reflection of who she is and what makes her comfortable. Dorit is a definite label chaser but I think she genuinely loves that but all of the other women don't seem as caught up. LVP and Erika being the extreme opposite ends of the spectrum with LVP's fashion being stuck somewhere in the past and Erika's fashion trying to be futuristic and unexpected.
  12. LMAO. I don't feel bad for them at all. Why the fuck are you living that lifestyle when you have debts to pay. I don't care how old the debts are...why are they outstanding and expected others should just accept the monetary loss when the person that owes them money is living in a mansion in Beverly Hills, driving top of the line cares and wearing ridiculously expensive clothing? What I am curious about is if their assets are frozen, is it like legit frozen and they have ZERO access to funds? In which case, they would need to rely on funds stashed elsewhere in order to manage their daily expenses.
  13. As soon as I posted it, I realized that you probably didn't intend the comment to be passive aggressive but maybe felt like your opinion was being invalidated so I edited the part out...clearly not in time, lol. Anyways, all good. No harm, no foul...I just wanted to make sure you knew that there was zero ill intent behind my respond 🙂
  14. Has Fredrik talked about expanding his business into the LA market? If the move was purely personal, maybe the change in scenery and distance away from NYC was a guaranteed way to put some distance between himself and work for the sake of being around his growing family more. His Connecticut home is/was beautiful but it's still pretty close to the action that should something happen, he could jump in a car and be in the city in a couple of hours. Being in LA means he will need to put more trust in his people to navigate situations without him and I'm sure the weather will be a nice change of pace. If he's looking for more work, well then I take everything else back, lol.
  15. My response has nothing to do with my feelings about Markle (but for the record, I certainly don't dislike her...and I think the publicity she's gotten since getting to London has been unfair). Truly, I wasn't calling you out for having a differing view, only sharing that even in the media's efforts to rationalize her picture request, it still doesn't ring very reasonable to me and I stated my reasons why. If you feel differently that's fine but I tried to be very clear that I wasn't challenging YOUR point of view, I was challenging the media sentiment about 'her space'.
  16. How does someone enter 'her space'? What is that defined as? She's sitting in a public stadium where the seats to your left and right are connected together and the seats in front and behind you are an arm's length away. Even if she ensures that nobody but her entourage is seated next to her, I don't think that qualifies it to be 'her space'. It's a public space, just like its the public funds that service her royal lifestyle. Unless someone shoved their camera in her face (which I totally understand would be an invasion of her space), her request comes across as entitled and insulting. It's no one's problem if she's overwhelmed with what she signed up for. Her entire purpose as part of that family is to be a public figurehead and for all of the benefits she enjoys, it was her, and her that chose to sacrifice her privacy. Not saying she shouldn't go out and enjoy herself, but she should certainly be in the mental space to be prepared to share the public space...with the public. I understand you're also just passing along information mentioned, particularly with reference to 'her space', I just question what that even means when the media uses that language to rationalize her request. The expectation of what your space really depends on where you are. My space in a public bathroom stall covers more area than my space at an arena when I'm around other members of the public watching a sporting event.
  17. I don't really think Chicago and the baby look like twins as others do but I do think they look the most alike between the 4 of them. Maybe I would see it more if his face was resting...I don't know what Chicago looks like smiling so it's hard for me to compare those side by sides, lol. Not gonna lie, if I just isolated the features, I think young Kim and Kanye have similar features and while I think Chicago favours Kim more, I think all of the kids have share features from both their parents.
  18. Completely agree. But I do think you have to be some higher level of attention seeking and/or desperate to be willing to play the game all the while doing it as yourself and not some character. They can all laugh and say 'oh honey, reality isn't all that real' but it doesn't make me think all that much of them to be willing to sell their name and reputation out for a reality TV paycheque. There are some people that I think are just as messy in their every day as they are on the show and for them, at least they're being authentic and profiting off of all of the character flaws that they were told would hold them back in life (guess the past didn't see reality TV coming...where character flaws are what can butter your bread...and pay for your mansion).
  19. Being homophobic suggests that any of those women think that being gay is something inherently wrong and/or inferior. So what specifically makes you think there's a chance that their hang up on Michael might be homophobic? If anything, I think these women are invested in how scandalous it is and not about 'the gay' or about the potential infidelity. I think they're just there for the drama - they're noticing the smoke and are trying to figure out if there's fire. Michael is an easy target because he's been caught in many precarious situations and most of them related to men. I imagine Ray would label himself a straight man so a rumour about him cheating on his wife with another woman is scandalous but certainly not nearly of the same shock value as an admittedly straight, married man who is found in precarious positions that include uninvitingly squeezing another man's ass while dancing next to him on the dancefloor, caught sharing his peen online with not-his-wife and now being heard saying he wanted to suck a guy's d***. And since then was slapped with a sexual misconduct charge from a male on the Real Housewives set who alleges that Michael groped him. At this point, I'm past him and Ashley denying his interest in men or denying the things he's said and done but my issue with him at this point is that it seems that he seems inclined to invading other people's spaces and getting handsy and that's not a gay or straight thing, that's a Michael thing that I hope they bring attention to (but I understand at this point in the show, they're going off of the sucking comment).
  20. I found all of them women were ill-informed on the topic but Meghan's comment about the men's team sucking I found insulting because it's clear that her opinion is purely driven from a US context. It's not a US tournament, it's an international tournament so pay and popularity are not measured solely on how the men and women's US teams compare. For the reputation that Americans get internationally for being egotistical with the belief that nothing exists or matters beyond America...it's the Meghans of the world that lend to that negative assumption. What all of them failed to acknowledge is that the prize money for these tournaments is based on estimated revenue. The reality is that while the women's tournament generates millions of dollars in revenue, the men's tournament generates BILLIONS! I'm sure if people actually calculated total revenue with prize monies paid out, it would guess it likely and quite often, the women get paid a higher percentage of their tournament's revenue as opposed to the men. It seems unfair to the US women's team because they have become the face of the tournament but these decisions aren't determined in an American bubble. If/when other women's teams win the tournament and prize money, it will largely be thanks to the competitiveness and popularity of the women's US team that have been the faces of this tournament for quite some time. If/when the men's US team ever wins, they will benefit from the competitiveness and popularity of other countries' teams and their investment in the tournament. The only way to close the gap in actual monies paid out is for organizers to either take less (and even then there's no way the monies will be the same as the men's prize money) or they either combine the estimated revenues (or the tournament itself) and offer equal prize money for the winning teams. If the latter happens, the women will be earning a lot of their money from the popularity of the international men's team competing so will the men be okay with taking significantly less? This issue was not at all presented well on the show.
  21. I don't think it was valid at all. It was a cop out. The sentiment was there even without the exact words being used. If you present me with an accusation to which I deny and then you follow up with saying that you also believe the accusation to be true, then obviously you don't believe me when I say that I didn't do it, therefore you think I'm lying. Lisa swore on her children and Kyle didn't back down. Kyle is entitled to her opinion and she isn't obligated to bend to the will of someone else if she truly believes that person is guilty of what they are accused of doing but to own that opinion in the face of their denials is undeniably delivering the message that you think they are lying. Kyle did basically call her a liar, but I don't think Kyle went to her home with the intent of doing so. Kyle tried to distance herself from the accusations by delivering the message in the context of 'this is what they're saying'. I don't think she expected to be put on the spot and asked what she specifically thought of the situation. She gave an honest answer but she couldn't come back from that. Not after her 'friend' swore on her children that the accusation was false and Kyle still didn't back down. Kyle tried to save the conversation by going back to the 'group' speak but it was too late by then. Lisa was hung up on Kyle explicitly saying that she believed that Lisa leaked the story.
  22. Camille was doing the most off the jump. At times it seemed rehearsed and I was just confused with how inconsistent she was between coming out guns blazing to then apologizing, then to arguing again and then hugging someone and telling them, she's going home because it's been a rough night. Well, with her game plan, how could she have possibly expected a different outcome? I did thoroughly enjoy her shut Teddi down quickly and how offended Teddi was. Zero self-awareness is what put her in that position. Camille told her that she doesn't like how Teddi constantly interjects and acts like she knows it all. So Teddi sees Camille and Kyle talking and in two seconds runs over to start giving her two cents on the matter and was surprised when she gets shut down off the jump, lol. The 6 months later sit down seemed intentionally contrived for the women to talk about LVP. I find it interesting that Erika has talked about how more comfortable and vulnerable she is around these women because LVP is no longer there but what did we learn about her? Same shit with her. Unless the evidence of her comfort level around the women is being able to take jabs and make jokes about the women who aren't part of their clique and not at that table (ex. beating up Camille, LVP's wet nails). Erika is just a blob of a thing that is just so damn useless. LVP's scenes were lame. Denise seems like an absolute stoner but I think that's why I still like her. She's just too strung out to get completely wrapped up in the drama, lol.
  23. How messed up does someone's thinking need to be that they would think it all through and decide that cheating on someone (in capacity) with someone in their close circle would be the best way to end the relationship. How about 'Khloe, I ain't feeling you no more, peace out'? So long as the Kardashian clan refused to allow the split to be portrayed as amicable and mutual, they would use all of their resources to portray him as the asshole that left yet another baby momma. But to give them full ammunition to call him a cheater as well...that just doesn't make sense to me. Maybe we can try to rationalize the ways in which any of this could have made sense in his mind, but maybe the reality just comes down to him being an idiot. I don't understand how people who cheat rationalize their behaviour in the moment but from all accounts I've read and heard about it, it seems to boil down to two types. Cheaters who cheat simply because they are narcisstic and crave attention - they cheat because it's easy and feeds their ego. But then there's another type who are unfilled in their relationships (and maybe they don't even wholly realize it) but it makes them more likely to be tempted by something they hope will fill whatever void is missing but also too cowardly to give up the safety net of their relationship. The latter type seems like someone who has some chance for redemption but I'm not sure just yet which one Tristian is but I'm leaning toward the first type. I don't hold steadfast that once a cheater, always a cheater but he's stacking up a pretty big resume of assholery that would be hard for many self-respecting women to ignore.
  24. From my understanding, the Little Mermaid movie will be live action/CGI so unlike the Lion King where it's purely effects and voice-overs, this actresses' voice AND image will be used in the movie much like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin used live actors to portray characters. It seems Whoopi is under the impression that it's just a voice over job for the actress which led her to make a point that wasn't relevant or speak to the heart of the issue. Thankfully the others understood and could at least rightfully acknowledge the ridiculousness of thinking that a race could own a character in animation. If a city/country can successfully pilot and implement programs like the ones Yang was talking about, good for them. I don't think America is ready for ideas like that when they're still struggling to convince large segments of the population that healthcare and education should not be a privilege for the rich. At the very least, I hope he's made available real-time data and studies that demonstrate previous successful attempts at this program and reasonable measures that can be undertaken to expand those programs in a way that is inclusive to the entire US population which is pretty damn big. It's great to say that you're going to take money from the 1% to pay for everything, but what does that really look like? I'm under the impression that the increased taxes for the rich strategy is going to be put toward this stipend for life program and services like marriage counseling as opposed to healthcare and/or education?
  25. That's interesting the way it's differentiated. This is all news to me - learn something new every day!
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