Egads - interesting Wife Swap tonight. [View All]

Happened across it by accident because of the show that on before. Wouldn't watch it normally, but the dichotomy of the two families has me piqued, and I can't turn it off.

The swap is between a family that has a daredevil motorcycle show with two teen boys who do the danger stuff, and a mom who loves it and even stands in a giant steel globe while the kids drive motorcycles inside around her. They live in hotel rooms 11 months out of the year, and they're all adrenaline junkies.

The other family is a eco-friendly vegetarian creative family that is quiet, homeschools to teach the kids creativity. The husband does something with music (I missed it), and the mother is a painter who begins her day with journaling. She converted a bedroom to her studio, so the three kids - two girls and one boy, in ages from maybe 11 to 7 - share one bedroom.


At first, after just the teaser, I was thinking the artist family would be pretty cool and the adrenaline junkie a bunch of weirdos.

The father of the junkie family seems to be a bit of a racist redneck rightwing asshole, but the mom is very cool and the sons seem okay.

The "artist" woman, though - the first time she talked, she talked about art and within about 6 words I thought "OMG! I bet all her art is shit!" And then they showed her paintings - and they're all shit. The dad and kids seem quite cool, though the dad is a bit of a clueless nerd. The mom, though, is totally uptight - self-righteous, one of those women that I know too many of who think they're organic womynyst creativist sensitive-to-mother-earth artists, but who just suck and are annoying as all fucking hell to be around because of their lack of artistic insight or understanding, and smug, cloaked self-righteousness and sense of superiority while they are, in fact, laughingly inadequate.



While it would be nice if the daredevil family had a bit more intellectual substance, they seem actually quite okay.

I fear for the kids of the eco-friendly family.