Trading Spouses, Turning Tables
Trading Spouses, Turning Tables by Roxanne McDonald
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The hyper-psycho-Christian calms down, but her new hubby more than makes up for the missing dramatics |
Marguerite was a holy roller from hell, really, her first time around on “Trading Spouses.” She was relentless about her faith—to the point of zealotry and alienating everyone she came in contact with. Her friends and neighbors, who visited the traded mommy, were equally unrelenting and cruel about their religion being superior, etc.
But when Marguerite made such an impact (was so horrendous she made the ratings soar, I imagine), FOX invited her back to switch partners once again. This time,
however, Marguerite was calm, almost docile, almost a lobotomy patient to her former self. She had watched the original airing and was embarrassed by her behavior and attitude. She decided to take the money (she originally declined, most vociferously, because it was relegated/parceled out by the other mom, who was a pagan and who therefore had tainted the money)—and get a stomach stapling or something.
Thinner, calmer, and reticent about round two, Marguerite meets Abasi—and gets knocked down to second place in the all-time most obnoxious reality TV personality category.
Abasi is moderately handsome, is probably the most intelligent and most articulate reality TV presence to date…and is hideously cruel and contradictory. He is on a black advocacy trip that allows for no interruption, disruption, or intrusion of whites. He is redundant. He is tendentious. He is relentless, making Marguerite’s former tirades look like sessions by a kindergarten teacher.
Abasi gets all passive aggressive, a little paranoid-delusional, and borderline abusive…until the sagacious Connie, one of Abasi’s friends yanks him by the collar (figuratively) and advises him to tone it down, be kinder, and keep his position but pay no mind to how others concede, resist, or retreat. Connie is brilliant in her presentation, which diffuses Abasi’s rage and shines a light into his tunnel vision.
Though it is a few days too late.
Abasi sort of apologizes, but that passive aggressive sadistic streak is still clearly at the backdrop of his sorry.
And Marguerite returns home to learn that Abasi’s wife has left her a major portion of the money…while Marguerite has done a little passive-aggressive allotting of her own: she
has left ALL of the money to the couple’s baby girl, Shachaamah—who gets the money on her 18th birthday.
I couldn’t help but imagine an even better payback: have every cent go to black renaissance efforts and charities. I suppose we all have a little passive-aggression in us, eh?
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