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Sunday question: What do you hate most about “Flavor Of Love: Charm School”?

jpozners Icon Posted by Jennifer L Pozner

July 1st, 2007

Tonight marks the season finale of “Flavor Of Love Girls: Charm School,” the sickeningly infantilizing, boldly bigoted and thoroughly sexist VHI series aimed at “reforming” a gaggle of “slutacious” “ghetto” “whores” who were degraded — and who debased themselves — on the cable net’s earlier blacksploitation reality send-up “Flavor of Love.”

I probably won’t have time to write up a critique of the finale, ironically because I have to finish my book chapter summary on race and racism in reality TV tonight. So, instead, I’m opening the floor to you, WIMN friends.

Have you seen “Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School” (or the prior bad-acts “Flavor of Love” and/or “I Love New York“)? If so, what do you find most problematic about the series? Any particular quotes, scenes, production tricks, cockamamie premises or randomly despicable moments that stand out for you? What’s comedian and show host Monique most blatantly hypocritical line of the night? We want to know, in the comments field.

(VH1 is running the hell out of this series, so if you’ve missed it and feel like getting a bit queasy, check your local listings throughout the month. We’re looking for comments about every episode, not just the season finale, so feel free to let loose about “Charm School,” “I Love NY” and the original minstrel show that started it all, “Flavor of Love.”)

Comment away!

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 11:37 am and is filed under African Americans in Entertainment, American Culture, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Hip Hop Culture, Pop Culture, Race, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Girls and LGBT Youth, Outrages & Responsibilities, Reality TV. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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