Why There’s No Hope For The Real Housewives of Atlanta

April 16th, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

Looking at that headline some of you may be thinking, look who’s tardy for the party, and I can admit I am late to the fact that there is no hope for 99 percent of the women on the “Real Housewives of Atlanta.”

Having watched season 4 off and on, it’s evident I was blindsided by a few moments of optimism because outside of some of the banter in South Africa I really felt like some of these women had gotten their act together—and then I watched part one of the RHOA reunion last night. I’m not sure if the ladies were working overtime to get those hundred thousand dollar bonuses they reportedly earn from appearing on the show or what, but the overall situation was just a complete mess, and here’s why. All this time, I thought that the women on the show were just evil, catty trolls who liked to start stuff, now I realize the problem isn’t that they’re mean, it’s that they’re delusional. Case in point: Sheree Whitfield.

I could have run to the corner store and been back twice by the time Sheree figured out what lie she was going to tell about chateau Sheree and the um, um, um contractors who were misprapropriating (yeah I don’t think she said that word right) funds which put the project on hold. Honey, we know you don’t have any money, which is half of the reason why I was inclined to think the tears she cried when Andy asked her about child support were real, on the other hand they came way too quickly like she was sitting there building up water in her eyes waiting for him to ask her about it so I dismissed that charade. Also, am I the only one who almost fell out of the bed when Phaedra said “dirt and grass” was all she saw of Chateau Sheree? I really felt bad about Sheree supposedly getting kicked off the show before last night because I believe in my heart she’s about to be completely homeless, but after seeing her stumble through those lies, I can see she really has no clue that you actually have to have the money to pay for homes to be built.  Unfortunately, she still thinks she’ll be having Andy over for tea. At the most they’ll be sitting on dirt and grass making mud pies.

Sheree does get points in my book for the way she handled Nene. From one delusional woman to another, Sheree clearly saw there was no point trying to get through to that very rich b**** and for the most part she decided she would let Nene look crazy on her own—and that’s exactly what she did. Kandi was absolutely right about having an attitude like she’s so above everyone else. Her disposition yesterday was so ridiculously new-money stank that I could hardly stand to watch. And considering the humble beginnings she came from and that Kandi so quickly pointed out, she ought to get a grip on that holier than thou attitude. Being too good to have a dildo up your butt but not classy enough to not call other women out their names and have a conversation like the mature adult she is in age is not a plus. Also, someone please school her on how quickly you can blow through a couple million dollars.

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  • Nope

    I’m ashamed these ladies represent Atlanta in any shape or form . They make us look like idiotic, materialistic,  bafoons !!!

  • Guesttime

    #completelydisagree…NeNe was no worse than the rest of these women.  I actually think she handled the lowblow of Sheree talking about her son really well.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LKQE4UQRBBVNOIRAL4EB2SPCWI Jen

    When you are not used to class, you have no class.  When you used to being loud, brash  & bitchy, that’s pretty much portraying what you want to the public to see.  I don’t have to watch the show to know how these women are.  It’s evident when they are on other shows promoting their BS.  With the exception of Kandi, who just needs to find the right man for her and not someone to fill a void or do some thangs, they all need to disappear.  Unfortunately because of ratings and public desires, this and other shows like this will continue be on the airwaves.  Yay, lucky us (strong sarcasm).

  • Vee

    I have not watched The RHOA since 2010. It has lost it’s luster.

  • Travisdij

    Hmmm. I think am reading comments from haters and hypocrits. We all have changed as we have grown in some good and bad ways. So stop all the madness, lets have some of your neighbors and classmates tell the story folks! First, strippers and dil**s have no connection. As a sexually active man am I suppose to automatically like adult films? Well i dont. Strippers dance for a living and are not anymore freaks than the women writing these holier than thou comments.(who might i add do way more)Adults toys are not for everyone male or female That’s all NeNe was stating and it make some people uncomfortable(me included) Just as abortion and same sex marriage does to some people. to each his own. She has the right to her opinion just as you do. The all seem to just gang up on NeNe cause that is easy. When NeNe gives it back everyone is so angry. Is she suppose to cry and you haters would feel better? I wish a mofo would try to play me and I sit there and allow it. They could have really got on Sheree for pot stirring and lying about her funds but that was treaded on lightly had it been NeNe they would have been all over it,nonstop. Kandi is annoying and so is her voice. The sugar momma she is, just trying to make herself relevent again. Aint nobody checking for her music thats why she is on the show. Pheadrea know she was lying cause she aint no nothing in that courtroom looking like a novice. She couldnt help me in Traffic court. Kim is a piece of ish and her show will fail. Nene can come across as a little full of herself put wish one doesnt but boring Cynthia. Pheadrea seems very money hungry, mortician my butt. to the idiots who say NeNe cant have an opinion b/c she was a stripper grow up

  • slimpickens

    These women were an embarassment to women everywhere.  My heartfelt sympathy1

  • Gimmeabreak78

    I must admit although I think NeNe is the most ratchet case of new money I’ve ever seen, she is the main reason I watch the show.  She is 100% delusional, and although it makes for a very sad life, it makes for excellent mindless t.v. 

  • Adrina Nelson

    It’s funny to me how the network exploits RHOA because it is nothing like the other RH shows (e.g. NY, Orange Co.). 1. No one on the show is an actual housewife or married other than Phaedra and Cynthia.  2. They have gas money compared to their counterparts on the other shows. 3. Their potrayal of black women is ridiculous.  And it also carry on the stereotype that anything black people are a part of is a mess.  smh…..I stop watching the show last season because it was just too much.

    • Yeah….OK

      Lol my roommate forces me to watch them white women housewives shows…. And honestly I can’t make it through a full episode them women are so fake and plastic and all they do is cry over EVERYTHING!!!!!! Omg…. So all of them are a MESS dear… This one is a hot ghetto mess and them others are a hot FAKE mess!!! They all play out the stereotypes of where they are supposedly from….

    • Yeah….OK

      And u know the premise of he Atlanta show is to say these women have NEW MONEY and the other white shows are supposedly super rich old money…. I think that’s what the production is trying to portray. That’s why they have nene and Marlo not used to nothing azzes Talkin about what they wearing every episode…they want to make us think they still ghetto with Louis Vuitton on. It’s really bravo that set it up this way… I’m sure there are a classier set of housewives they could have found in atl instead of ex-cons and ex-strippers with sugar daddies to portray women with money!! U do the math…

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MFIDIQTSIIHI66IAVJUNTBNG3Q a reasonable person

        Well, the RHOBH did have the one “housewife” (not) who kept blurting out, “my shades cost $25, 000!”

    • Marcia Johnson87

      Half of the women on the other shows aren’t wives either…Brandy (Beverly Hills), Vicki (OC), Tamra(OC), Gretchen (OC), Kim (Beverly Hills), Bethenny wasn’t married before she got her show either and the list could go on. And they spend just as ostentatiously and have just as much drama. (ex. Fist fights between young girls in the OC, evictions & forclosures, lots of arguments, spolied brat kids, marital issues, divorce, drinking problems, etc.)  

      All of the Housewives series thrive off of (contrived?) drama and over the top antics. But I think we judge ATL housewives more harshly because they are Black & we want them to be perfect and respectable because we think they are supposed to represent the entire race of Black women. When white women act a fool they just represent themselves. When Black women do it all of sudden they are the poster child for black women everywhere?

  • thomasclemons5

    The show is just garbage period.

  • Love Spell

    I agree with Msredonebrite,
    I really lost it for Shree when she said NeNe son got caught shop lifting that was a really low blow which she took to get NeNe off her a**. Kim has totally forgot who she was before Troy. Im still team NeNe!

  • OhNoYouDidn’t

    Kandi seems like a bright girl when it comes to her music and business, but she makes very bad choices in men. Her dead fiance had six kids and four baby mamas and now she moved some broke guy she barely knows into her mansion. I wonder why she has such a hard time finding a man on her level. I’m not saying it’s all about money, but damn. Maybe Marlo was right when she said the rumor around Atlanta was that Kandi is a sugar mama.

    • Miss Truth Hurts

      “On her level” Kandi Burress may be a talented business woman, but she is a real dirt bag. NO one in ATL will date her that isn’t a worthless leach of a man. No woman with good sense would date ANY of the guys she chooses to mess with. Kandi has a real whorish reputation in the ATL and it goes all the way back to the 90′s. Her child’s father is a married man (dirtbag) Her fiance that died was a deadbeat dad with a lot of kids & a lot of baby mama’s. She is the reason her girl group split up (Escape) because she slept with their manager/producer and it caused problems which lead to the group disbanding. The only reason she ever got to write those “award winning songs” for those groups (Destiny’s Child, TLC, etc) is because she was sleeping with certain “big wigs” in the industry the story is out there on the net just google for it. Kandi has a LONG list of men, married men,men in committed relationships and WOMEN (Tiny being one of’em) that she has slept with. If you wanna be a ho, you have every right to do what you’re pleased with you’re p****sy. Just don’t be surprised when you can’t find a decent man in your town because they are all turned off by your freaky reputation. LOL!

  • Jdunson39

    how can a stripper be so opposed to bedroom candy…..what hasn’t that boy looking stripper nene hasn’t done?

    • Miss Truth Hurts

      Nene having been homeless and just escaping an abusive husband….She OBVIOUSLY stripped to feed her son & keep a roof over his head. Not because she was a nympho. Oh and KANDI is a nypho wh0re who has slept with half the men (married too) and WOMEN in ATL. Nene may be an ex-stripper and Marlo rumored to be an escort but Kandi done had more men/d!ldo’s run up in her then all the women on that show combined.

  • DoinMe

    I love Nene even though she can irk a nerve every now and then. But I’m glad that she got her hustle on and took full advantage of the show. When it first started back in season 1 Sheree  treated Nene like the dirt on the bottom of her shoes and like she was too good. Ohhhh, but fast forward to now and her a** is sleeping on the floor with no job, no money, everything she touches fails, and pretty much living like a pauper. Karma is soooooo ugly. 

  • Sleep Minaj

    What?
    People still watch this ghetto garbage?!

  • Jolie

    I stopped watching when Phaedra and Cynthia came on, at that point Nene just really upped the shenanigans and I was over it.

  • Nefijones1

    Nene is such an embarrasment! 

    People who have money don’t go around yelling that they are rich.  She has no sophistication no matter what – and she needs to remember that she is not Oprah rich (who also doesn’t go around bragging about her bank account). 

    The little money Nene says she has can be gone within the twinkling of an eye. 

    Nene is just a loud mouth low life with absolutely no class.   

    • Vee

      It seems the more I hear about NeNe’s antics I am glad I no longer care to watch The RHOA. Just because someone has money does not mean they have class.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MFIDIQTSIIHI66IAVJUNTBNG3Q a reasonable person

      You are so right. Real rich people DO NOT brag about their riches, they dont want to get robbed. Plus, it’s just tacky.

    • Dorisgulley

      I think that was.just Nene way of shutting Sheree mouth an it didn’t work and she couldn’t take it back. I understand why she said it and it worked we are still talking about it. She needs to make that statement into a t-shirt. I would purchase it.

  • littleLady

    Just when I started to like Nene she shows up with this ridiculously stank attitude. I’m surprised she could stand to be in the room with herself. I compeletely understand where she’s coming from because adult toys aren’t for everyone, however when you resort to making it seem like everyone who does like those things is a disgusting and terrible person, you’ve gone too far. Ma’am, you were a stripper for goodness sake! You have no room to look down on anyone no matter how reformed and ‘rich’ you are!

  • http://twitter.com/DisciplineNlife Disciplines Rewards

    1000% on the money…..I totally co-sign on every word in this article. *claps*

  • @MsRedboneBrite

    No, Sheree didn’t let NeNe “look crazy on her own”, NeNe shut her saddity tail all the way down! While NeNe got on my nerves with that “high & mighty” attitude, she was spitting realness to Sheree, which was why she shut her mouth. 

    • autumn_breeze

      And Sheree deserved it….she had no business talking about Nene’s son…Kids are off limit! If Nene would’ve said something about her kids. trust and believe Sheree would’ve gotten upset too.

      • Eakilah

        She would have wanted to fight Sheree if she said something about her kids. You are right children are off limits.

    • Dorisgulley

      Ditto! Nene is the most real one on the show. Sheree took a low blow about the kids ,she and Kim could not.speak for looking at each other for confirmation they both need to leave the show. Would’nt mine Kandi being replaced with her two faced jealous self. Sitting on stage looking like a p**n star. I here Kim is getting her own reality show. For what?

      • NOLA Darling

        If NeNe meets your definition of “real” then you need to move to a new city & start meeting better people because that woman is garrish, clownish & whore-ish (for money, fame & attention)—things no Black woman should aspire to be to try to emulate.

  • MissDiva05

    I guess I’m alone in this, but the “entertainment” aspect of these shows have totally disappeared for me. The foolishness is just too much for me to bare.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6X2K5HVEERJINDKNFNYXJPDUJQ BoXii

       this season was ridiculous

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