It's time to call "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" what it is - Complete Foolishness!

I'll admit that I'm guilty of liking drama just as much as the next person, so I got caught up in the foolishness that is "The Real Housewives of Atlanta."  When the show first aired I was optimistic that we would get some portrayals of classy and sophisticated African-American women on television (in hindsight I have to wonder what I possibly could be thinking!).  From the start you got the feeling that these women were "posers" and weren't really worth the money they wanted us all to believe they had.  After the first season aired, various internet stories began to come out pretty much confirming that these women were not as fabulous as they led us to believe. 

What was more disturbing is that the show seem to celebrate and encourage the fact that one of the women was carrying on an affair with a married man, and that her lifestyle was funded by this relationship - a fact openly known by her two young impressionable daughters.  Between Kim's on and off again "relationship" issues and her unexplainable co-dependent toxic friendship with NeNe, this woman would make any psychiatrist rich beyond measure.  As it relates to NeNe, there literally are no words to describe this woman who is quick to label various people "ghetto," and anyone who watches just one episode of this show will quickly see that this is the proverbial "pot calling the kettle black".  To say she is embarrasing would be an understatement!

So yesterday we got a new season of the show because this ridiculous show is such a ratings juggernaut that Bravo wants to reward us with more of this foolishness.  So what did we learn from the new season: NeNe has taken ghetto to epic proportions; Kim, now apparently bisexual, is "shocked" that her 13 year old daughter (who apparently wasn't taught not to talk while chewing as she continued to have a full on conversation while eating a meal, which was very hard to watch) is interested in aggressively pursuing a boy at school (that apple didn't have far to fall off that tree); Sheree is now acting and "can see herself winning an Oscar"; new cast mate Phaedra never misses the opportunity to let the audience know how much money and possessions she has; and Dwight, is still Dwight.

The thing I find most funny about these "Housewives" is that they go out of their way to brag about what they have, something people with real money would never do.  Announcing that you have a Birkin bag really isn't that impressive especially since we all know that there are places that now lend out designer bags for the posers of the world (wonder if Sheree has an account at "Bag, Borrow and Steal").  I've boycotted the D.C. franchise of this show because of the White House Crashers, and I think I have to give up Atlanta as well, if for no other reason than to try and restore the brain cells I've lost over the years watching this mess.

So, that's TarazTake for today, what are your thoughts?