Schadenfreude wrote:
I feel like that entire episode was designed to make us satisfied with a Tammy and Victor win.
As for Bitchpushinggate, they're all full of crap. Luke is full of crap that he was innocent, Margie is full of crap for completely overreacting, and Jen is full of crap for pretending she was the victim. One personal experience that I have had was playing soccer for a school in the same conference as my state's school for the deaf, and I do remember quite well that those guys were, in fact, MUCH more physically aggressive and more prone to cheap shots and hoping the refs didn't notice than the other teams we played. Luke was clearly in the wrong for throwing elbows, even though Jen clearly is full of it when she claimed she was an innocent victim. Now, as for Margie's claims that Luke was being picked on, do you think that had, say, Jaime thrown an elbow in Jen's face that Jen wouldn't have said the same thing to her, if not something stronger? (I use Jaime as my exemplar because I can't fathom Tammy engaging in fisticuffs and Mark/Michael throwing elbows would only involve Jen getting a nasty bruise in the knee.) The fact is that Luke got caught being a bit aggressive physically, Jen called him on it in a rather rude fashion, and Margie either came to her son's defense or enabled his own rude behavior by letting him play the victim. She came to her son's defense as most mothers would had they heard their son being called a bitch, but I do think that Margie freaked the hell out over a perceived slight for the wrong reasons. Jen and Kisha weren't being rude because Luke is deaf; Kisha and Jen were being rude because they felt Luke was acting like a jackass. I think, though, it's probably more comfortable for Margie and Luke to think that he's being picked on for being deaf than for acknowledging his bad behavior, and Margie did clearly admonish him in the cab for being too physical.
And, I must say, if Jaime hates being in places where people don't speak English, why the hell didn't she just apply for Big Brother instead? Also, anyone care to take the bet that seeing as she is a Pretty Person from Miami, Jaime and Cara are probably plants that are friends with that Freddy/Kendra, Jon/Kelly, Riker Twins clique. Jaime and Kendra being friends just makes so much sense to me, you know?
And why, why, why did Jen have to live up to stereotypes by being the archetypal African-American reality television contestant that can't swim? How has no reality television winner started a charity addressing this?
There, I've stereotyped or disparaged African Americans, the deaf, Kendra from season 6, and little people. Flame away!
As Julie from Alabama said to Kevin the 'blacktivist' on Season One of The Real World when he went on his 'black people can't be racist' bullshit screed and got all up in her face 'Kevin, can't you realize that I don't dislike you because you're black, I dislike you because you are an asshole!'
Says it all right there.
and Kevin was too dumb to realize that Julie the White Devil from Alabama had glorious titties.
