Thursday, February 10, 2005

Mean Wife Swap show

So I watch all these shows at night while I sit and cross stitch my charity quilt squares. I hardly watch any sitcoms now. These are real people and you can somewhat relate to them. They pulled a fast one on the families switching a conservative, Bible smacking, interracial married woman with a lesbian! The conservative woman was from Texas and married to a white man. They had 3 teens and lived in a mansion! Guess who did all the cleaning and yard care-the kids! The other woman lived with her girlfriend and her 8-yr old daughter in a ranch style house. The Texan lady was so bitchy and everything she said or did 'was the right way'. The other lady (from Arizona) switched the rules and let the kids have parties and friends over. She put a computer in the one boy's room and he was overjoyed. At the end of the show where the couples reunite, Mrs. Texas laid it out about how wrong the two women were and that 'they were shacking up'. Said she was 'scared' to have a woman like her around her daughter! She caused the woman who swapped with her to tearfully defend herself and her partner (which she didn't have to do). Not once did they mention about her being Black, and the way Mrs. Texas was talking, I would have used that just to get back at her. Guess she was more dignified than that. This almost brought me to tears it was so moving. My conservative Brian just sat there speechless.
I hope this show sets an example, esp for the bigots out there. There can be same sex families who can raise children just as well as a traditional husband/wife union and there can be interracial couples too. Right Mrs. Texas!?

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