RHONY - Oh Those Damn Blondes!

You know things are bad when Kelly is calling anyone "weird." She said it to Alex several times during tonight's episode. Kelly's a sweetheart, wacky, but a sweetheart. Oh, but those damn blondes! Baby, they can work a nerve!

Poor Alex... she needs to take Kelly's advice and just observe the altercations between the other women and not try to participate. Alex can't confront someone and come out on the winning end to save her life. She ends up standing there with her mouth wide open as the other person shuts her down and throws her out or walks away. Hey, Alex, you do realize you defended the woman who threw you out of her party just a few episodes back, right? Head check, please. I'm still in shock that she's modeling. On to the next damn blonde...

What's the chick's name who's so childish and rude? Oh, yeah, Sonja. You believe in a pecking order? Cindy should've pecked your a$$! You're all adult women. How about simply treating each other with respect? By the way, are you and Ramona more than friends? It appears that you are sharing more than friendship and Pinot. Now for the last damn blonde...

Oh, Ramona, Ramona. You can b!t&h it out but you can't take it. As soon as Jill lit into you, you melted into a puddle. Get a better body guard than Alex. Unless she can shoot out pepper spray while she's standing around with her mouth wide open, she's pretty useless as a means of protection.

Cindy, jump in there, girl. You were too quiet. Did you see how the Countess pulled shade on those blondes? You can do it just as well. There's no being reasonable with them. You have to come in swinging elbows, baby! Take your 15 minutes of shine instead of letting them get all the camera time.

Jill, love, love, love you, girl. You're standing up for yourself. Now that's the what AND the ish! However, I don't think you should borrow anyone's swim wear, dear. I really thought that you would have cut ties with Ramona after the way she spoke to you about your step-daughter during your auction but you must truly like her. Too bad. Even though she says she's going to be more considerate towards you, she won't. Selfish people are never considerate of others.

LuAnn, You handle yourself better than any of the other housewives. You take charge and you don't apologize for it. And, if anyone has the nerve to ask you to fall back or say sorry, you have none of that nonsense. The Countess is damn near gangsta! That's how we like it-- brass balls, no chaser. She can tell your a$$ where to go with class and style. Not one cuss word. She's good. Hey, Countess, can you teach a sista how to do that? Put those lessons on etiquette you give to the rude blondes on DVD. Bestseller, baby.

Seriously, though, the show didn't disappoint. I was entertained. Brunettes rock! Blondes, kick rocks.

Tim Wise on White Privilege

I heard about this via a Facebook post by a writer named Jeremy Williams a.k.a. Push Nevahda.

From the DVD:

The Pathology of Privilege
Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality

For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well. This is an invaluable classroom resource: an ideal introduction to the social construction of racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege.

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