{"id":8909,"date":"2010-05-07T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T23:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2014-02-04T05:13:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T10:13:39","slug":"the-real-housewives-are-all-such-mean-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-real-housewives-are-all-such-mean-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Housewives are all such mean girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a new episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Housewives of New York City<\/a>.\u00a0 I see that, like the other Real Housewives shows, much of the dialogue is contrived as everyone &#8220;sets the record straight&#8221; to explain how horribly they were edited to look on last year&#8217;s show.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexmccord.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex McCord<\/a> had it right when she called <a href=\"http:\/\/jillzarin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Zarin<\/a> <em>a mean girl acting like she was in high school<\/em>.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not just Jill, it&#8217;s most of the women on most of the reality shows.\u00a0 And what&#8217;s the other show?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/basketball_wives\/series.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball Wives<\/a>!\u00a0 The cat fighting, the gossiping. the posturing, the one-upmanship.\u00a0 I can only watch a few minutes of this type of show.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been able to make myself turn on a moment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/a> yet this season.\u00a0 Except for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/bio\/jacqueline-laurita\" target=\"_blank\">Jacquline Laurita<\/a> who minds her own business, the others are pretty scary: back-biting, vicious and vindictive.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t vibrate there at all.\u00a0 It just seems mean spirited and cruel, and I don&#8217;t really see the point in that.\u00a0 What&#8217;s funny to me is that these women don&#8217;t seem to notice that they are just the same as the ones they gossip and complain about.\u00a0 When I come across a mirror, I look into it long enough to see myself. fix what needs fixing and move on.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=742\">Celebrity Clients<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=14754\">I get a Real Housewife as a Client<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=8909\">The Real Housewives are all such mean girls<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=7507\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Housewives of Orange County and Lynne\u2019s Eviction Notice<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3365\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Housewives of NJ bring me a 14x windfall<\/a><br \/>\n<a 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