Last nights Wife Swap.....

[Disney1fan2002]

OK, I really liked Michelle, but I don't think I would ever use the word slave to a black woman in regards to how she treats her son. She could of gotten her point across by using other words, but to tell a black woman she treats her son like a slave? Ohhh bad choice.

I could not believe how upset and resentful the loud, hates kids mother (can't think of her name) was about how much Michelle waited on Eric. Errrriiiiiccccc! LOL. Yet, she was just as much a lazy ---. And she gets upset to walk in the house and see a black man in the picture? SHE is married to a white man!

I was so glad that family made the changes in the end. I think Michelle's family helped them, more than they helped Michelle's family. I was glad it was a happy ending, with both families appreciating each other.

 

[JKMastalski]

This was my least favorite one I had seen. I thought both families had a lot of ignorance!

 

[antmaril]

First, I have to say I didn't see last night's episode, but the black woman (I can't remember her name) was interviewed live on the radio here in Detroit this morning. She said that much of the show is orchestrated and they were directed on what to say and how to act. She said that the hardest thing for her was that the other family had five young children between the ages of 2 and 9 and she wasn't used to that because she only had two (17 and 12, I think). She said that if she was as much a queen as they portrayed her she would live in England - LOL. Anyway, one of the radio personalities told her that when the show started she didn't like her at all, but at the end she had really warmed up to her. The woman seemed quite nice and came off pretty well in this interview. She said that she and the other woman's husband really got along great and have spoken on the phone several times since the show was taped. She also said that her husband and the other woman didn't like each other at all.

Thought this info might be interesting to those who watched last night.

 

[disney4us2002]

OK, I really liked Michelle, but I don't think I would ever use the word slave to a black woman in regards to how she treats her son. She could of gotten her point across by using other words, but to tell a black woman she treats her son like a slave? Ohhh bad choice.

I didn't watch it but saw a lot of the preview ads for that episode and the way the black woman was lying in bed yelling for her son to bring her wine (he looked kinda young too) brought to my mind "slave" as well. Would servant have been a better choice? I think the world is too worried about being politically correct imho. She didn't come off well in the previews.

 

[momof2inPA]

First, I have to say I didn't see last night's episode, but the black woman (I can't remember her name) was interviewed live on the radio here in Detroit this morning..

Thanks. I wondered how much of the show was scripted or orchestrated by the producers.

 

[MamaLema]

I watch this show every week for entertainment only. I truly believe that nothing we see is real. These people are very set in their ways and I don't believe for a minute that they are willing to switch families.

Remember the clean freak? As if she would just go to anyone else's house.

Remember the family who was protecting their kids from the outside world? How would they even know about that show if they are so focused on themselves?

 

[phorsenuf]

OK, I really liked Michelle, but I don't think I would ever use the word slave to a black woman in regards to how she treats her son. She could of gotten her point across by using other words, but to tell a black woman she treats her son like a slave? Ohhh bad choice.
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Well the black woman used the word slave too when referring to how the husband treated the white woman. Why can a black person use that word and not a white one?

 

[Shugardrawers]

Well the black woman used the word slave too when referring to how the husband treated the white woman. Why can a black person use that word and not a white one?

It's all a matter of contex I think. In this particular case I didn't see anything wrong with it. It was an observation. It wasn't a reference to the black race being inferior it was a reference to how she treated her son. She didn't say he should be or that by virtue of his race was. I suppose if you are looking for something to be offended about it could be. I didn't understand why it was so bad for a white person to use the "N" word but not a black person until I considered it this way: I have a friend I lovingly refer to as (rhymes with witch), always in a joking way and she knows it. She often refers to me that way and I'm not at all offended. BUT, if someone else were to call either of us that, I'd be offended. It all depends on who's saying it and how they mean it.

 

[phorsenuf]

When they both said it I didn't think anything of it. I don't believe the white woman was saying it as a racial slur or anything and neither was the black woman.
Like you said its in the context.

 

[VW31]

I think the black woman and her son took the slave comment WAY out of proportion. The other lady said, you are being treated/treating them "like" a slave, she didn't say they were one. That is just a figure of speech that everyone uses. The black lady even said it in reference to the way the husband treated his white wife. But it seemed like that whole family had a chip on their shoulder, like when the white husband got mad when the lady said he wasn't "acting like a man" and being a good role model for the kids. The black man and white wife were much more easy going about everything.

(I wish I knew their names so I wouldn't have to say, white-man/wife; black-man/wife).

 

[MsDisney23]

"eric"

 

[stinkerbelle]

I didn't watch it but saw a lot of the preview ads for that episode and the way the black woman was lying in bed yelling for her son to bring her wine (he looked kinda young too) brought to my mind "slave" as well. Would servant have been a better choice? I think the world is too worried about being politically correct imho. She didn't come off well in the previews.

I totally agree.

(sorry - I just watched this last night, I Tivo'd it.)

Yes, I think "servant" would have been a better choice of words...I don't think Lashell (her name was not Michelle) meant anything discriminatory behind what she was saying...but if she had used the word "servant"...she still would have been dead on balls correct.

COME ON...what person in america serves their spouse dinner in bed EVERY EVENING?!?!?! I could see if you were sick or incapacitated...but that's just wrong IMO!

I don't have children yet...but I don't think I'm ignorant in saying that that's not the way a family should function.

Both families were "extremes" in their family values...and I think each extreme pulled us in both directions saying 'that's not right...'