In my household I am unapologetic about my guilty obsession for trashy reality television shows- particularly those highlighting the trysts of Black and Brown women. I watch them so much in fact that my round-the-clock seizing of the Madison remote control brings my reluctant husband along for the ride. And so his payback for having to endure many seasons of Basketball Wives and the The Real Housewives of Atlanta has culminated in him demanding that I watch the full upcoming season of TLC's Honey Boo Boo.
Honey Boo Boo, a pageant contestant from TLC's spin off, Toddlers & Tiaras, is in every way a stereotype from her satirical neck-rolling to her Southern backwoods vocabulary. In a promo commercial introducing her family we find that they too are the zaftig, countryfied yokels you ever did see this side of the Mason Dixon. And so as my husband put it to me, "If you can watch us do that, then we can watch them do that." And by us he meant the NeNe Leakes- types glorifying a life of hair weaves, Birkin bags, "hood rich" homes, and and cat-fights. By them he meant the Larry the Cable Guy- type stars who eat fatty fried foods, hunt, and swig Budweiser.
The challenge begins August 8th at 10pm. !"You better red neck-ognize!"
