Interested In Being Exploited? You Might Be In Luck!

Hey there plus sized readers, interested in being exploited? Are you FABULOUS? Do you have problems with boundaries? History of public drunkenness and/or shopping addiction? You're in Luck! VH1 is now casting full-figured women for their new reality show. Same casting folks as those who did Jersey Shore, so you know it'll be classy!

Here's the run-down from their website HERE:

You’re big and beautiful and know how to own it! You’re phat, fab and chic and have the big and bold personality to match. You’ve got the style, sex appeal and sass to get noticed without being a sample size.

Time to show the world that big girls have more fun!

VH1 in association with Doron Ofir Casting and Left Right Productions is now casting the hottest, most bodacious, voluptuous single women who are at least 21 years old and appear younger than 35 to represent the BBW’s in a brand new docu-series that will show a long-awaited glimpse into the ultra-fab world of big girls! If you have your cake and eat it too, we want to hear your story.

Whether you’re nightlife’s A-list, a full-sized fashionista, big and business savvy or singlin’ and minglin’ with L.A.’s hottest, we want to meet you!

Step aside skinny bitches, the spotlight isn’t big enough for the both us.

Big girls don’t cry… they freakin’ party!

Email BigGirlsClubCasting@gmail.com with your Name, Age, Phone Number and 2 recent photos.

Dance Your Ass Off Returns!

Oxygen is bringing back its popular weight-loss show, Dance Your Ass Off, for a second season in 2010.

“We loved watching as contestants danced off nearly 500 pounds,” says Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development for Oxygen Media.
The show, which premiered earlier this year, paired a dozen professional dancers with overweight contestants, who competed to dance off the most weight.

Ruben Permel of Las Vegas ultimately won the competition when he shed 73 lbs. “On the show, we learned choreography, a routine. Now I can go social dancing. I can do the fox trot, I can do the salsa, I can do a swing dance with a complete stranger,” he told PEOPLE. “It’s kind of cliché to say, ‘Oh [the show] changed my life,’ but actually it did.”

The show’s second season will be produced by Magical Elves, the production company responsible for Bravo’s Top Chef. “We hope to inspire the entire country to eat healthy and get off the couch and dance!” says Introcaso-Davis.

No word on whether Marissa Jaret Winokur, who hosted the first season of the show, will be back for season 2. –Elaine Aradillas

Sometimes Raining on Somebody's Parade is the Kind Thing to Do

Okay, Tania, the woman featured in the video above is a 37 year old woman who "wants to start taking her modeling career seriously." Everything is officially staged in the "Real Housewives" franchise over at Bravo, let's just accept that as the "reality" behind these "reality" shows. So, if this 37 year old woman is actually trying to start a modeling career, I don't care. BUT, I do care how these faux-reality programs influence regular people's perceptions about what they can do realistically with their lives. For example, I work with at-risk youth and I've rarely met an at-risk youth suggesting a solid plan for him/her-self career wise. Everybody wants to be a professional athlete, singer, dancer, actor or simply aspired to be "rich." When I worked at a community college, I remember meeting a young woman (already a single mother) who could NOT manage to turn in her ENG 101 papers ontime, say she wanted to be a doctor. At the time, I would never have rained on anybody's parade and said, "why don't you consider nursing" because I was a young idealist. First of all, let me tell you, she flunked ENG 101, so she ain't a doctor today, let alone a Community College graduate. I think that we need to get realistic career planning instilled earlier in the curriculum of most middle-schools and high-schools. Not, tracks, where you can't change your mind and go onto something else, but the TEACHING OF MAKING PLANS. So, say you want to be a doctor, they need to learn how to make a plan for becoming a doctor, a nurse, an EMT, a research scientist, and a pharmacist. That's five plans with five solid steps--including learning the moment they need to apply to college, what semester they should take organic chemistry, how much debt they should expect to incur, etc. Because, in a world where a 37 year old woman thinks she can become a famous model because a kiss-ass agent agrees to meet with her on a reality show, you know ten fools at home are thinking they need to try to sneak onto the American Idol auditions and pretend to be under 29 so that their talent will just Susan Boyle us away. By 37, you should damn well be living with a bit of reality and accept your life. If you want to totally change careers, that can happen, but something like modeling, professional athletics, acting--that's just stupid and it serves as a bad role model for the rest of humanity, particularly young kids and desperate housewives who are more vulnerable to thinking stupid reality tv stunts like this are, well, reality.

Earth to Reality Show Producers: Black Face is Offensive, not Risque

In the above clip, one of the "wives" of the Real Housewives of Atlanta franchise proposes to dress up all the other "wives" up in their alter-ego. Nene thinks that Kim should be painted, wigged, & dress to look like a Black woman, Keena, for her "alter-ego." The premise is that this is Nene's idea and that this is the kind of thing that rich, indulgent women do for fun in Atlanta. Most probably, however, it is the "hilarious" idea of the RHOA producer. All of the housewives shows are staged--and I will admit to watching the two episodes a season of NYC, NJ, & Atlanta that Bravo allows Hulu to put online--because its all so ridiculous. But seriously, in the NYC version they put on a charity event, totally staged but plausible. In NJ, they staged simple things like all the "wives" and their husbands/children going to a ballroom dancing class together or simply all these strangers getting together for an Italian meal in Teresa's new home. The stage-y-ness of Atlanta is more transparent in this particular stunt and it could lead into seriously offensive territory. Somehow, because it was a Black woman who suggested it, the producers think that perhaps they can get away with it. Guess what, you can't! Don't do it Kim! Dressing up in blackface is always offensive because it is steeped in oppressive and racist stereotypes. So often I hear white people complain about how they can't say the "n" word or dress in blackface, but Black people can use the "n" word and two black men wrote, directed, & starred in White Chicks. Boo-hoo white people (yes, okay, I'm white but one of the privileges of being white is the ability to call out the racism of white people without being accused of using "the race card"). History, especially in Atlanta, can't be swept under the rug for the purposes of a cheap reality show prank. It shouldn't be. Blackface is offensive and in this era where racist white men come armed to a townhall meeting where the first African American President of the United States of America is there to talk about healthcare reform, race baiting and racially insensitive jokes are particularly disgusting...and possibly inciting of violence.