{"id":9557,"date":"2010-07-06T06:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T11:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2010-07-06T06:43:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T11:43:43","slug":"youre-cut-off-9-bratty-women-with-bad-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/youre-cut-off-9-bratty-women-with-bad-attitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re Cut Off: 9 Bratty Women with Bad Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re Cut Off<\/a> is a VH1 reality show that features nine spoiled 20-something women whose benefactors all decided that in these tough times, enough is enough. It’s high time their princesses learn how to become productive members of society–not a endless drain on their finances.\u00a0 So when the ladies move into a house for what they think is a reality show called “The Good Life,” they’re actually about to be subjected to their worst nightmare: getting cut off.\u00a0 Completely cut off.\u00a0 As in stripped of all their cash and conveniences, and forced to learn how to live life the way normal people do.\u00a0 They are required to participate and pass an eight week rehabilitation program in order to be taken back. The program director is Laura Baron<\/a>, a life strategist who helps counsel the women on the road to self-improvement and responsibility.<\/p>\n

From Episode 1<\/a>, the first meeting, most of the women go into the default I’m insecure<\/em> role of establishing dominance by back-talking and feigning superiority.\u00a0 The typical high school mean girls<\/em> syndrome that is so popular now in reality shows, particularly on the Real Housewives<\/a> series.\u00a0 Mostly just posturing for the camera, name calling and complaining.\u00a0 Chrissy<\/a>, Gia<\/a> and Jessica<\/a> are the mean girl front runners, although I hafta give Jessica credit for cooking dinner the first night they realized they had to do it all themselves.<\/p>\n

In Episode 2<\/a>, the girls are given chores in the house and completion of their chores = food money for the house.\u00a0 Chrissy, Gia and Erika refuse to clean.\u00a0 Later on, long story short, the exercise is for the girls to all clean a mansion and Gia confronts the home’s owner – Omarosa.\u00a0 The conversation is stereo stupidity, it’s\u00a0 no more real than the myth that Omarosa owns that house.\u00a0 That night Gia, Chrissy and Erica continue to argue and Erica explains there is a difference between new money and old money. Since Chrissy and Gia are new money, they don\u2019t know how to conduct themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Episode 3<\/a>, the girls are given a lesson in spending on a budget.\u00a0 It’s also determined in this episode that very few of the woman can tell the difference between a high priced champagne\/pate\/diamond\/dress\/handbag and a budget item.\u00a0 Without seeing the label, they haven’t a clue about quality or value. At the end of the lesson, they had to put on a fashion show using items bought at a thrift store.\u00a0 Many of the girls were surprised they actually found items of clothing they wanted to wear.<\/p>\n

In Episode 4<\/a>, the girls are assigned to do factory work in a warehouse. While some embrace the job, others aren’t as thrilled.\u00a0 Chrissy, queen of the Narcissistic Bad Attitude, misses the ride to work and Gia, first runner up for the NBA, quits before the day is over.\u00a0 Gia is particularly furious that Erica<\/a> – in her first year of law school – got assigned as manager for the day, and thus be Gia’s boss.\u00a0 Erica, while loving that she got the manager position, is wisely not gloating about it.\u00a0 She’s being kind and gracious to everyone, and just doing her job\u00a0 She’s realized the camera is going to show everything she does, so she tones down the name calling and gets on good behavior.\u00a0 If she doesn’t impress Daddy, he may stop being her meal ticket.<\/p>\n

Gia is hard to listen to, it’s like watching a 2 year old have a tantrum.\u00a0 It’s just annoying and you want to be away from it.\u00a0 But small lessons begin sinking into Gia.\u00a0 Short lived, but she’s getting some sparks.\u00a0 Like maybe she should change her baby’s diapers just to bond with her.<\/p>\n

In last night’s Episode 5,<\/a> they get all dolled up to do a photo shoot, then they go to a Buddhist temple where they do a meditation exercise and hear the monks speak about living without material things.\u00a0 Some of the girls get it.\u00a0 Most don’t.\u00a0 Afterwards, they go for another photo shoot, this time without make up and jewelry and in a plain tshirt and jeans.<\/p>\n

Not surpringly, this sends Chrissy into another mouthy tirade, since she spends hours a day doing hair and makeup, drag queen style. \u00a0 She doesn’t want to remove her makeup, she doesn’t want a photo shoot of her without it.\u00a0 Yet when we finally get to see her without it, she’s surprisingly beautiful.\u00a0 Until she opens her mouth again.\u00a0 Like Gia, it’s hard to listen to Chrissy, it’s not entertaining, it’s like watching a 2 year old have a tantrum.\u00a0 It’s just annoying and you want to be away from it.<\/p>\n

Laura has a talk with Chrissy, who is smart-mouthing her the whole time.\u00a0 Even the other girls told Chrissy to please speak respectfully to Laura when she meets with her.\u00a0 But Chrissy is having none of that.\u00a0 She’s told to pack and be gone within an hour, that she’s been uncooperative the whole time, she doesn’t do the program exercises and her attitude disrupted everyone else’s personal journey.\u00a0 Of course Chrissy walks away crying that it’s not fair, yada yada.\u00a0 And all she had to do was be nice.\u00a0 How hard is that?<\/p>\n

I grew up with an attitude.\u00a0 You couldn’t tell me anything, I knew it all.\u00a0 I was nice enough, but I could be a sarcastic smart aleck, too.\u00a0 I was in my 30’s before I realized how much that hindered me instead of helping me.\u00a0 How much it distanced me from those who had something to teach me.\u00a0 If I thought I knew it all, I wasn’t asking questions.\u00a0 And if I wasn’t asking questions, I couldn’t hear any answers and I couldn’t learn anything new.<\/p>\n

My attitude now is, “How can I help?\u00a0 How can I be of service?”\u00a0 If someone is rude to me, I figure they’ve had a bad day.\u00a0 I don’t mind when drivers cut me off, I say a prayer for them to have happier lives.\u00a0 I don’t take things personally.\u00a0 No one is out to get me.\u00a0 I look for the good stuff in whatever is going on around me.<\/p>\n

Life is much simpler now, and – without all that drama – much more fun.\u00a0 But of course that would not make for a good reality show, which is why You’re Cut Off<\/a> and all the other shows are so popular.\u00a0 People like to watch the drama and the catfights.\u00a0\u00a0 They can relate.\u00a0 Maybe they grew up treating each other in the family that way.\u00a0 Maybe – good or bad – it feels familiar to them.\u00a0 They vibrate there.<\/p>\n

My mother would have kicked my ass and I would have deserved it.
\nGimme nice any day.\u00a0 The return on investment is so worth it.<\/p>\n

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