I'm not sure if I've become more aware of it or if the SYTYCD people are becoming more blatant, but the cultural appropriation/stereotyping is getting to me. I may have to give up the show - the "geisha" and "ninja" number, the "African Jazz", the Bollywood (although that grates less, I think because it's playing off a commercial interpretation of a cultural dance), but they're going past annoying into offensive. And this is from a middle-class white person ....
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Toddson - Aug 18, 2015 7:25:30 am PDT #22622 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Aug 20, 2015 5:00:56 pm PDT #22623 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
PR: I like this challenge, I think, but still no Mood! What's going on?
Jesse - Aug 23, 2015 10:32:21 am PDT #22624 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Have y'all watched Ink Master? They do the judging with the contestants in the room! It's bananas.
Amy - Aug 23, 2015 11:38:19 am PDT #22625 of 23273
Because books.
PR: Is that a record, three episodes in and no Mood? Also, who went home? I fell asleep during judging and can't be assed to finish watching.
brenda m - Aug 23, 2015 12:22:22 pm PDT #22626 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
They did call that bin of fabric mini-Mood, so it's not like they've severed the relationship.
-t - Aug 23, 2015 12:59:30 pm PDT #22627 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
True. But I want to see the store!
Pistachio went home, Amy.
Amy - Aug 23, 2015 2:14:43 pm PDT #22628 of 23273
Because books.
Who is Pistachio?! I don't even know their names yet, clearly.
-t - Aug 23, 2015 2:25:26 pm PDT #22629 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I am not doing well with names either (she mentioned that was her nickname and I can remember that better than her real name). The woman on the Carribean team.
Amy - Aug 23, 2015 2:41:21 pm PDT #22630 of 23273
Because books.
Oh, the one whose name sounds like "meow"? She was ... not good.
-t - Aug 23, 2015 2:49:57 pm PDT #22631 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I liked her portfolio well enough in The Road to the Runway or whatever that was called, but she has not thrived in the competition.
She was right when she said they didn't need to do a bathing suit, though.