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Date: 2006-03-08 06:49 am (UTC)
elf: Rainbow sparkly fairy (Default)
From: [personal profile] elf
I remember them spamming P/W. "We want an example of alternative lifestyles, of exotic religious practices... but only married women with at least two school-age kids and no jobs..."

Yeah, that's a good set of parameters for alternative lifestyles.

And people are surprised that out of the hundreds of pagans who fit those basic criteria, they picked one (1) who is over-the-top witchy-poo (with dried lizards in jars and all!), and (2) whose personal life is something of a mess. Oooh, I'm so shocked.

I thought about applying. I'm married; I have two kids. I can do "pagan" or "hippiefreak" or "sci-fi fan" lifestyles. But I have a job; I can't afford to take a couple of weeks off. And my husband doesn't generally like strangers--probably wouldn't like whoever they stuck as my replacement, and I *know* he's not gonna put up with a camera crew in the house.

(And the camera crew likely doesn't want to be here, anyway. We live in a lower-income neighborhood than they could deal with... Notice how they only show families living in the 'burbs, or a bit more rural? No east Oakland slums on this show; wouldn't want anyone to have to look at *poverty* when they're being entertained by the freaks.)
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