Andrew ,'Damage'
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I liked watching the different approaches to rowing that little rubber dinghy--Big Easy's (what's his real name?) and the other guy's backstroke, Dad's using a kayak-style stroke, and the one guy's rather ineffectual rowing.
Mom was watching the end of the ep with me last night, and couldn't believe that Dad was the father of Pinky, partially because he looked a lot younger to her in his swim trunks, and partially because he was so much smaller than his son.
They kept to the side of line that I'm comfortable with -- no personal taunts, no belittling her because she's a girl. (Whether they'd have done it if Canaan was the one who couldn't bring himself to go down the slide is another question, but completely hypothetically I do believe they would have.)
(Me, in retrospect I'd be: DAMN! I got TRASH-TALKED by a freakin' HARLEM GLOBETROTTER! How cool is that?)
She was clearly very vulnerable, but the Globetrotters comments didn't bother me. My thing is, if Mika were a man, another Globetrotter for example, this is how they would have behaved. This is a high stakes competitive situation. Oh well.
Mika wasn't going to do, I think the other team picked up on this and decided to make a comment about it.
I think if she'd been a man, their comments would have been less patronizing. The "Oh honey, I'll walk you down" shit really rubbed me the wrong way.
I think it was patronizing because the two weren't competing.
I know a lot of men in sports competitive situations. This is the kind of shit they say to each other. My SO's Madden online gaming league is a trip.
Another Top Chef spinoff:
Today, Bravo announced the series pickup of its newest culinary competition series entitled “Top Chef: Just Desserts,” a spin-off of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning “Top Chef.” The series will consist of pastry chefs competing against one another in a series of challenges. Open calls for chefs interested in competing in the high-stakes culinary competition series will be held in cities across the country starting on October 26.
Do you think we can get Top Chef: CSI (using only materials found at a crime scene, each week contestants....) or Top Chef: Law & Order: Courtroom Cafeteria
Top Chef: SVU - Scallops are Bad.
Top Chef: SVU - Scallops are Bad.
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
I honestly would vote for them making a rule next season that no one can use scallops EVER.