I am amazed by your ability to make me laugh so hard at something so sad. You keep hitting the nail on the head, driving it deeper. Few who are connected to entertainment in any way, will actually provide such a cogent critique.

Nice work.

Heather,

Have you ever written for the magazine Bitch: A feminist Response to Pop Culture? This would fit in perfectly with their articles. If not, I highly recommend it to anyone. Thanks for the humor, and for echoing what I thought myself watching that second episode of the Pussycat Dolls. It was really astonishing that the princess dreams of America's teenage girls can so easily bleed into the slut dreams. I guess it's all the same thing, really. That sense of "I just can't imagine that my dream can come true - he's the prince for me, but really, he's irrelevant, cause I was meant to be a princess!" on shows like The Bachelor is the same as "I just can't imagine that my dream can come true - I'm the princessiest of all these women - I can be chosen over others, and if this is the criteria they're choosing by, then no matter." It's the 'I'm the one and only' generation. Very sad.

thanks!

Jessica

I think they were called whoring sea monkeys, because those are the little families you can buy and put in water, then they come to life. To think of them as whoring around in their tank is pretty funny. The unfortunate thing is that sea-monkey is a trademark name and HH can't use that, I guess. Thanks for the review tho, pretty funny as usual.

I'm sorry, did I miss a wave? When did it become OK to embrace both feminism and hate for women? Why are these women constantly called sluts? It's like a diatribe scrawled on the gym bathroom wall. The intended use of the words slut, whore, hoochie mama, throughout this article is to denigrate the women/girls Heather rants about. That is soooooo very not feminist, which Heather seems to be trying to assert that she is.

There is a real argument to be made about the subversion of "empowerment" but this one falls apart by the time Heather writes, "They (the whoring sea donkeys)don't dream of being Madonna or even Britney Spears, they dream of squatting on the floor of a shower stall for a photographer from Maxim." Does Old Lady Havrilesky remember the crazy posing and grinding the pop divas engaged in in their prime? (maybe they are too white to qualify as "hoochie mamas"?)

Enjoy the argument, hate the shows, but leave out the sophomoric insults. They are more upsetting than the "bubble asses" on TV.

Please, what is a 'whoring sea donkey'? I am obviously disadvantaged by being English, but I liked to think that I could read SALON as if it were written in my own language. Obviously a whoring sea donkey has something to do with big girls who dance and make porno faces for the pleasure of little girls who haven't get got anything to put in a push-up bra, but Heather Havrilesky bandies the phrase so confidently as if it were not merely her own coinage but in common use. I just don't recognise the etymology, can someone please explain?

PS I don't know what a hoochie mama is either. I must get out more.

Is Heather really going for the "in olden days a glipse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now God knows, anything goes" route? Without irony? She seems to really mean this part of the article.

Then we get the "whoring sea donkey" bit, which she's really ground into the earth.

Please, don't phone it in like this again. I Like to Watch is my favorite column on this site. Hate to read such a third-rate entry.

I can't imagine ever watching a show like The Agency, but after ready ILTW, I had to check it out. How could I resist "a guy who looks like a cross between Giselle and Little Lord Fauntleroy" for a rugged shoot? I don't know if it was because your text kept running through my head or if I would have been in tears with laughter anyway, but watching that fey boy go to Tommy Hilfiger when they asked for rugged was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV (or streaming online, anyway). I love 30 Rock, but nothing on ANY sitcom has made me laugh that much in ages. (Can someone tell that agency president that rugged = rough trade, not "tussled hair." No wonder his staff failed him so completely.)

I disagree about Becky, though. It is utterly loathsome, I agree with that, but I don't find it annoying. I would if I had to interact with it in reality, but to watch it in small doses on TV was pretty damned amusing, I thought. That nasty pinched face spitting anger at its boss cracks me up even now just thinking about it. You know you're in trouble when you boss in a meeting with his boss refers to you as a virus and as a cancer in the same short meeting. Now THAT is what "reality" TV is for, in my book.

Anyway, thanks for directing me to the V-Spot for some very hearty laughs.

There are some of us still out here who do not tune in to these stupid and beyond brainless shows.

Who needs right-wing conservative women-bashers when we have our own daughters bashing us instead? One more question: Who said this was 'empowering behavior?"

I thought the flavour of love was on the saddest, ho shows ever shown on television, then this thing goes onm air.

100% unintentionally hilarious and at times unwatchably crass.

It's great the article had that "generation" quote because I just started LMAO when I heard it!

Just wow, like an audition for retarded bitches at a sleazy strip club. Watching them shake their asses in excitement and worshipping the dolls line-up of talentless ho's was too much.

And I love naked hot sluts just as much as the next guy. Even more prbably.