Camera Lies

I'm a recovering Housewives viewer (now two seasons sober), so I'm posting today in all humility. But I gotta say that even when reality shows like the one below are designed to point out hideous behavior, they move the cultural needle regarding what we consider hideous. We get used to watching extreme materialism, over-the-top vanity, monumental self-absorption, and insane gossip under the umbrella of things that are fun to watch because they're so egregious. Problem is that after a while they no longer seem egregious, they just seem bad. And the stuff we considered bad becomes average, and the stuff we considered average—you get the idea. The more we tolerate the intolerable, the more acceptable it becomes. And also, yucky women get famous for being yucky. Perhaps we should sit this new one out, and just say no to giving the awful people a voice. s