Carole Radziwill has decided that this season of Real Housewives Of New York she will âbe offended by everything!â How that is any different from other seasons I donât know, but this weekâs offender of her sensibilities is Jules Wainstein!Â
Carole and Jules had a âbonding momentâ over being the two skinniest girls in the room at Dorinda Medleyâs bra party, but Carole isnât buying Julesâ claims that she comes by her thinness naturally! Carole is confused about Jules defense being that she gets her period every day.Â
âHuh?â wonders Carole. âItâs kind of like hearing a friend you suspect drinks too much say, âWhat? I donât drink too much, I never even black out.â Ummm, okay.âÂ
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What Carole is saying is that in her approximation Jules is too skinny, and isnât being honest about how she got that way. Unlike Carole who âhas been underweightâ her âentire life.âÂ
âWe are two skinny girls in a town lousy with skinny girls,â explains Carole. âBig deal.âÂ
âSo is skinny really never bad? Iâll have to disagreeâŚitâs fine until it interferes with normal bodily functions. Red flag.â
âThis is the first time Iâve heard the period defense, and I know lots of skinny girlsâmyself included,â critiques Carole. âIâm used to people commenting on my body, even women I have just met. Yes, Iâm a carb junkie. No, I donât workout. God gave me a nice frame, but he gave me a bunch of other issues. It all evens out. So it wasnât a surprise that Jules directed our conversation to our bodies. I mean, we werenât at a medical convention, weâre standing in front of a mirror trying on bras for godsakes, what else is there to do? HahahaaaâŚI call her toothpick, she calls me elderly. Weâre so funny.âÂ
Although Carole has decided that Jules is a skinny girl who acts like a big boob, âthe biggest boobâ is Ramona.Â
âShe shouldnât have repeated gossip sheâd heard about John. Weâve have all been hurt by women on the cast repeating gossip they hear or simply nonsense that they make up,â gripes Carole. âThere is very little accountability on a âshe said/she saidâ show. So you can say anything you want. (Please refer to last weekâs blog.)â Last weekâs blog being another scathing diatribe against Luann de Lesseps, the woman who owes Carole an eternity of apologies.Â
Speaking of eternity, Carole is offended that Jules snarked on her age. Deservedly so.
âBut if Ramona is the Double-D of boobs, Jules comes in second at Double C,â asserts Carole. âThing is, Jules is cute and nice and easy to laugh. She had me at hello, but she lost me somewhere between menopause and mom.â
âI wasnât even going to mention this because really, who cares? But from here on in Iâve decided I want to be offendedâŚby everything,â says Carole, going down the litany of her castmates offenses and winding up with Jules again, who suffers from âage-shaming Tourettes.âÂ
âWhat is surprising is that other than her hair flipping she doesnât seem to be that much younger. Weâre not talking different generations here,â reminds Carole (Jules is 34 â so about 4 years older than Caroleâs boyfriend Adam). âSheâs generally cool on other subjects, so why all the slights about womenâs age? Is she insecure about her own age? Or aging?â
âI was going to let it go, honestly, I was. But I see a pattern, because later on in the season she insults my age to my unlined-face. At the time, I thought that was an isolated instance, a momentary lack of self-awareness, a brain-fart,â Carole recalls. âWeâve all had them. Me included. But now I think she has a weird age thing.â
I think CAROLE has a weird age thing, along with a weird weight thing, and it takes two to tango. BUT Jules going for the lowest denominator on the insult chart â age â makes her a jerk.Â
As for Julesâ comment that the ladies are the same age as her own mother, Carole disagrees with Julesâ math â which is apparently on par with Julesâ English Literature.Â
âI suppose I could have been a teen mom. My mom had me when she was eighteen. I would have been 17 when I gave birth to Jules,â averages Carole. âThing is, Jules couldnât be my daughter. I would never have raised a daughter who made dumb sexist jokes about women. The same misogynistic crap we hear every day from men. The same misogynistic crap we hear from John in this very episode, first to Bethennyâs face, and then behind Ramonaâs back.â
âAnd menopause, last I checked, is a medical condition that affects two billion women in the world. Is it okay to make light of a medical condition but not a mental health condition? In my opinion, neither is good.â So is Carole gonna comment on her friend Bethenny Frankel calling Jules âspecial needsâ.
Carole concludes her Bravo blog by comparing Jules to the high school âcool girlsâ and praises her for âbringing back the smoking sectionâ because âsmoking is the new black.âÂ
Well tonight RHONY returns and brings its coolness factor with it. Oh wait, no it actually brings Bethenny back, trying to pretend sheâs cool by dropping out-dated expressions like âon fleekâ and over-using the word âc-ckâ because she thinks it makes her relevant. It also brings back John, who awkwardly confronts Bethenny at her birthday party under the pretense of an apology but it seems to go horribly awry.Â
And finally, Carole confronts her biggest fear: the big olâ Countess and demands yet another apology for Luann under the guise that Carole is never guilty of any impasse. Then Bethenny invites Julesâ Hamptons home over brunch!Â
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