Anyone watching Wipe Swap?

[gigglesnort]

There's a difference between stereotyping the French and flat out bashing them. Do a google search on bash the French - pages and pages and pages of hate. My 9 year old has had people make comments. Hell someone told me the other week that my 16 month old had a weird name, when I told them it was French they said "oh, that makes sense then, the French are weird" ***?!?!?

Yes I'm angry, for the last few years we've had morons like O'Reilly feeding the fire and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of my kids thinking it's bad that their father is from France as if they should be ashamed.

I'm done - hijack over.

I think you are overreacting a touch. I'm sure I can google and find bashing of Italians, or people from the Northeast. Just pointing out, either make fun of all, or make fun of none!!

 

[Crankyshank]

There's a difference between stereotyping the French and flat out bashing them. Do a google search on bash the French - pages and pages and pages of hate. My 9 year old has had people make comments. Hell someone told me the other week that my 16 month old had a weird name, when I told them it was French they said "oh, that makes sense then, the French are weird" ***?!?!?

not for nothing but the French are weird. My family is absolute proof of this!
Seriously though I know what you mean about being bashed because of ancestry. My maiden name is Chretien, so believe me I got it from French haters and people who hated Jean Chretien.
But it also gets very tiresome when the area you are from is continuously knocked as its residents being rude and unfriendly when it's not true. and there's plenty of northeast bashing that goes on here.

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

I think you are overreacting a touch. I'm sure I can google and find bashing of Italians, or people from the Northeast. Just pointing out, either make fun of all, or make fun of none!!

You don't get it. Go back to your cave.

 

[gigglesnort]

You don't get it. Go back to your cave.

It's actually a rock.

 

[stinkerbelle]

You don't get it. Go back to your cave.

why the heck isn't this thread locked yet?

 

[gigglesnort]

Back to Wife Swap, I hate it when the wives try to do something permanent, like making someone cut their hair. It's following the rules for a week, changing your looks can last a lot longer than a week!! I would refuse that also.

 

[SillyMe]

I'm from the Northeast and don't take any offense to those comments.

What I find hypocritical is how it seems okay for everyone to bash the appearance of the so-called "hippies" and the size of the husband (as was said he looks like he's 12 or 15 years old), but everyone jumps at the comment about Italians.

 

[gigglesnort]

Back to Wife Swap, I hate it when the wives try to do something permanent, like making someone cut their hair. It's following the rules for a week, changing your looks can last a lot longer than a week!! I would refuse that also.

Let's not get this closed!

I made no comments about the hippies.

 

[kpm76]

Wow, I cannot believe how downright rude and ignorant some posters are being and the stereotypes/generalizations being made about areas of the country and ethnic backgrounds. I have lived in RI all of my life and it's a wonderful place to live. It is not a "hotspot for the mafia." The family is from a very affluent area of Warwick, RI, just south of Providence. For the poster who said there are areas in RI where you could buy a house like that and it would not cost you a fortune, unfortunately, with the housing market the way it is right now, that simply is not true, unless you consider 600k affordable. Though I am not Italian, I am shocked at the number of ethnic comments. Very disappointing. It's one thing to comment on the way in which the "characters" acted but it's another to draw sweeping conclusions about areas and generalizations about people and their ethnicity. A little tolerance goes a long way.

 

[taximomfor4]

Couldn't resist....

If I were the Huggies wipes dad, I would want to keep the Pampers wipes mom...ever smell that Lavender scent?



I kill me!

 

[CPM]

. I have lived in RI all of my life and it's a wonderful place to live. It is not a "hotspot for the mafia." The family is from a very affluent area of Warwick, RI, just south of Providence. For the poster who said there are areas in RI where you could buy a house like that and it would not cost you a fortune, unfortunately, with the housing market the way it is right now, that simply is not true, unless you consider 600k affordable.

Compared to a lot of other places that is reasonable. I know my family paid a lot less for their home in RI then we did in Ma. I also said some areas of RI and that is true. He probably didn't just buy the house either. It wasn't too long ago Warwick was very reasonable.
Even where I live now, you can't get that nice of a house for $600,000. It wasn't meant as any kind of insult, I just was wondering if they actually said they were a rich family. Seemed middle class to upper to me.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

Chicago Italian looks have calmed down a bit, but if you travel to Melrose Park, (very Italian suburb), look hard enough and you may see some nylon tracksuits.

I have family in Melrose - and you hit the nail on the head.....Melrose is 1950 Brooklyn

 

[gigglesnort]

I have family in Melrose - and you hit the nail on the head.....Melrose is 1950 Brooklyn

It's awesome!! I'm surprised I got out alive.

(loved it there, great times, great family, won't ever let me forget I'm Italian, long after I moved!)

 

[Crankyshank]

Actually I live in North Providence and for years it's a been a mafia hotspot. That stereotype is outdated as they're mostly all in jail, but it's not completely incorrect. Want proof? Hang out at Spardello's on Mineral Spring Ave and you'll see for yourself.

I'm Italian (and French), my Father's side of the family has been in RI for generations, I've lived 5miles from the RI border since birth until moving to RI, and it's absolutely true about Cranston and Johnston. Even my Italian Johnston residing co-worker will joke about it.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

My father-in-law is from Elmwood Park, suburb of Chicago, his dad was in the Mafia and deported, and my husband is an insurance salesman that makes a good living. I am soooo laughing at this thread.

 

[gigglesnort]

My father-in-law is from Elmwood Park, suburb of Chicago, his dad was in the Mafia and deported, and my husband is an insurance salesman that makes a good living. I am soooo laughing at this thread.

oooohhhh, Elmwood Park and Melrose Park were big rivals, and River Grove was Sweden!

(all these town right next to each other)

 

[WIcruizer]

Oops...sorry...I was misled by the name of the thread..

 

[Jeafl]

Well I, for one, never miss a Taste of Melrose Park on labor day weekend.

Great food and even better people watching.

 

[gigglesnort]

Well I, for one, never miss a Taste of Melrose Park on labor day weekend.

Great food and even better people watching.

Ah yes, but the Feast (in July) was where to go to "see and be seen".

We were all out in our finest. Now I'm talking late eighties, so imagine that!!

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I just watched this episode today. I felt so bad for the son in the hippie family! He seems so intelligent, but something was just not right with him. Maybe it was the way he talked? I don't know, but something was off. Though I wanted to take a razor to her, I likes the hippie mom/wife!

That rich husband though. I had enough of the "badda bang badda bing" talk! What an obnoxious fellow! But it was sweet how he teared up over missing his wife....