VH1's Basketball Wives knows how to bring the drama with constant arguments between the women who, oddly enough, claim to be friends. Each week, somebody's gettin' a good cussin' out. These days, drama translates to more than just venomous words... it means physical violence.
Things have escalated so much so that viewers, spurred on by talk show host Wendy Williams, are boycotting the show and are petitioning online prevent Evelyn Lozada from having a spin-off show due to her "bullying". Some fans are offended that women are shown in such a turbulent angry red haze --- throwing a full bottle of wine at someone's head, slapping someone in the face, and jumping on a table to run and dive on the other chick.
While I understand how those who have taken offense feel, I can understand how easy it is to let your anger get the better of you as well. Been there many times. Will still go there if necessary. So, I'm not boycotting or signing that petition because I feel like Tami and Evelyn are me, just in a different city and on TV. This chick ain't mad at them. You have to stand up for yourself. And some of us are just magnets for drama. Not that we want to be but it likes us.
Let's get to what I can't understand. The slap heard around the world. That situation has been stuck in my craw since the episode aired weeks ago. It was brought up again tonight and the asinine attempt to justify it (again) was so ridiculous, I have to speak on it.
The argument went like so:
So, chick gets up and comes around the long a$$ table to do just that. Slap Jen in her freakin' face. Jen just sits there as though she doesn't see this girl coming for her. WTF, Jen? Are you out of your M Fing mind? I don't care how refined and bougie you are, you don't hold still and let a b!+ch smack the damn taste out of your mouth. You should have been on your feet with that six inch heel in your freakin' hand by the time she made it around that table. What!! Girl, if I could've, I would have reached through the TV and slapped your a$$ right after she did just because you sat there and let her do it. Now that's what I can't understand. Why would you not even attempt to protect and defend yourself when you knew she was on her way to get you? See, that's what the viewers should be boycotting, stupidity like that. That kinda crap should have people scratching their heads in amazement. I won't be the first one to resort to violence, but if you attack me, it's on, baby! Cuss and scream all you want to but don't put your damn hands on me.
The other thing that I don't understand is the crazy (I'm being nice) explanation for why Jen was slapped. As of tonight, it has been said at least twice that she "asked" to be slapped. You heifers are crazy. Quit playing stupid 'cause the viewers aren't that dumb that they're buying that crap. Everybody knows that when you're in a heated argument and someone makes a threat and the other person responds with, "I wish you would" or "I wish you might", even prefaced by the word "yeah", it is not an invitation for you to carry out your threat. It is a warning, plain and simple. Translated, it means, 1) "Go ahead and try it and see what happens, fool!"; 2) "Come on over here; you'll get the best a$$ whippin' you ever had 3) "Um hmm! You might act crazy but you know better.
Sadly, in Jen's case, it simply meant, "Okay, I'll be waiting, girl." But ladies, please stop trying to convince us that Jen invited that chick to slap her. Pure nonsense! You seem foolish each time you say it. And the lawsuit, well, it might be a bit much to us chicks who don't mind scrapping; but, clearly, Jen is not that chick. Even if she was at some point in her past, she has distanced herself from such behavior and she prefers to do her battle in the legal arena. To each her own. You choose the action, you have to live with the consequences. The slap got you a few moments of fame but Jen is taggin' that a$$ in court.
Does that mean that chick asked for the lawsuit? I think it does. Oh, and if you're wondering why I'm calling her "chick", I don't remember her name and she just seemed so random, like she didn't belong there with the group. That is all. Now go play nice!
P.S. I found this article on TMZ and the Youtube video above. Her name is Nia.
