The Real Housewives of ...

 By Bill Muehlenberg - Posted at Culture Watch:

Published September 19, 2023

The prophets have a few choice words for these females:

OK, I used to have a housewife. Yes, she did work outside of the home for many years, but she was also and primarily a very wonderful and loving housewife and mother. She would still be a terrific housewife today, were it not for the fact that she recently passed away. She was a superstar in every way.

And yet she never made it onto any reality television programs. Nor would she wanted to have done so. I refer of course to those ubiquitous and utterly deplorable shows that start with the words, “The Real Housewives of…”. It seems that just about every major city in the West now has their own version of the show, and Australia has not been exempt from this.

For those in the know, one well-known scene from one of these shows featuring an irate woman in a big fight has been turned into a massively successful meme, including with her arguing with Smudge the cat. It is a classic. You can see this instantly recognisable meme of Taylor Armstrong of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills everywhere, including here with this background story: https://www.businessinsider.com/woman-yelling-at-cat-meme-taylor-amstrong-real-housewives-smudge-2019-12

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