I admit to becoming addicted to Real Housewives of Atlanta for the second half of one season. I'm sure I've done more damage to my brain, but I can't remember where.

Fair enough. :)

I can't say my knowledge of racists is particularly intimate, but black people on television with white people is not a thing racists seem to spend much time protesting anymore.

Was he a racist with a thing for black chicks? (I know he was a racist.)

You know they aren't going to do that, right? There's, sadly, a history of white male racists being sexually aroused by black women and not recognizing the contradiction. The most committed racist in the world is unlikely to object to this show. An actual integrated couple in their neighborhood, on the other hand,…

I was once a fan, Fangoria. Thanks for the gross-outs.

You shouldn't say it or be upvoted for it. It really is the same thing as a some racist redneck contemplating punching a drag queen in the face. That people don't like what someone is or represents is never good reason to slug them.

I don't think Chippendales does have an 18 and over restriction. But since the women at Hooters are never actually undressed, aren't even wearing bikinis, I don't see any big deal about family going there, though I don't know why the hell they would. I think it's Joe's Crap Shack (a family chain) that has in many of…

This is too depressing for words. It's like learning how long The Love Boat was on the air. Or Hard Copy.

And cheese is cheese. And money for sex is money for sex. These are cheesy shows about money for sex. Love does not enter in here.

Please, please don't tell me The Bachelorette has been on for 33 seasons.

You don't really await that, do you?

It's just like the Chappelle sketch about the first black man ever allowed to use a public toilet. Profiles in Courage.

Oddly, in that same Houston, a local theater (Stages) was threatened with the revoking of its liquor license if they followed the script of a play (Salonika) and allowed the audience to catch even a glimpse of a naked man's genitals. The actor had to awkwardly stretch out on his towel stomach down and take off his…

You're secretly blessed.

I think it's a state thing, though it may be a county thing. Apparently Houston is VERY popular for people who like seeing naked ladies in person because they can go completely bare. Some jurisdictions insist on bottoms, some even require pasties over nipples. Go figure.

Probably the best you could say about Hooters is that your less likely to get salmonella than from the buffet at a local strip club. But no one wins in that analogy. And I'll never go to either.
Though I'll check out the, ahem, "dancers" at a gay bar for a few minutes if there's nothing else going on. (I don't eat…

The AV Club writes about the stock market now. No way to verify what they think qualifies as a story.

Egg on my face. I didn't read your username.

Yeah, most male strip clubs won't let a man in without a female escort. My "big point" was that both sexes objectify each others bodies in the marketplace for profit, so the criticism of Hooters is kinda silly.