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Even if you're meh on Jasmine, it's very telling to see which parents pounced like hyenas and which ones were just listening normally

Luke/Danny use the kids as a 'get out of jail free card' for their bad behaviour and Kristen/Nia allow that because it means they aren't forced to confront that the men they have procreated with behave badly towards them and others becayse they feel entitled to. The excuse of 'the kids' lets everyone avoid reality.

Also Nia, way to scream at the only black woman on the cast who BTW your husband SA'd. You need a refund from your emergency PR strategist.

u/Aparanta — 6 days ago
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As someone who had a severe ED, the way she immediately draws attention to her décolleté is classic body checking/displaying

I was hospitalized for AN and I remember feeling so "pleased" with my bones showing in my décolleté and I tried to frame them with my hands in a flirty way all the time so this moment in the behind the scenes vid for Petal just really struck a chord. The way she goes "Hello" and places her hands right below her collar bones....it's so deeply concerning. A common misconception is that people with ED's only ever want to hide their body under baggy clothes, and while that is true in some cases I know in mine I was (to my shame) delighted with myself about what "I had done" because it felt like I had cheated the system. This video should be flagged.

u/Aparanta — 7 days ago
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Luke and his pink suit on tonight's reunion asking for more face powder and ignoring Doute's tears 🤡

u/Aparanta — 7 days ago
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She's a fan. Vocal fry and wearing Lorna Murray x Kathy Hilton Capri Hat does not a Housewife make

Also kind of funny how its called the Capri Hat and Jesse is obsessed with Capri

u/Aparanta — 8 days ago
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Look at Danny's reaction to the Andy-initiated *possibility* of a detente between Zack and Janet (and how Nia immediately Mummy's him)

u/Aparanta — 14 days ago
▲ 188 r/TheValleyTVShow

Watch her and Danny host some FOX or TLC dating show called "Celibate or Date" when The Valley puts them on pause

Or they will leave saying it's because the show "no longer aligns with their values"

u/Aparanta — 17 days ago
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*Cackling* at threads kicking Doute right off that high horse she'd been riding

The one with Luke's coffin comment made me almost spit out my drink. But he's also such a pig for saying it. Marriage, kids, is not the answer to that.

u/Aparanta — 19 days ago
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Zack needs a reality check this past episode, he's lucky Janet speaks to him after what he said about her unborn baby

Can everyone just remember that he is confirmed to have said this, doesn't care, and actually feels like Janet owes HIM something? Janet is Janet, debate her qualities all day long, but this is easy. If you wish ill on an unborn baby you are never going to have the moral high ground. Why is this constantly memory holed? He had .5 seconds of "accountability" and I have watched an entire season of Janet trying to be alright with him and him being like "baby steps" and its like THE IRONY my guy.

u/Aparanta — 20 days ago
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I liked Lacey this season, but this is RICH coming from someone sitting on the Internalized Misogyny couch

I mean, that's a wild speech to give while sharing a couch with people she's largely given a pass (besides her quips at Jesse): Insipid Boss Baby (who may wear "Ice Out" stickers but talks to women like trash), Frat Boy Danny (who claimed being held accountable for groping women gave him PTSD), Tammy Faye Booko, and Krazy Kristen, who's committed to defending Danny and Nia because her "give me sex postpartum" baby daddy seems to admire their power dynamic. Oh, and Jesse—who is growing on me—but inventing a story that the mother of your child slept with a client for $1,500 a night, purely out of spite, knowing your daughter will one day see the footage? That's misogyny in 4K, babes.

u/Aparanta — 22 days ago
▲ 256 r/TheValleyTVShow

Thought this was AI at first

Nia worked at Disneyland HK (a genuinely cool location) as a Disney Princess Character Performer after losing Miss California 3 times in a row, then going on to win Miss Nevada and Miss USA. Hate pageants, especially Miss USA (which is owned by He Who Shall Not Be Named because even back then he was a creep), but I actually feel like she would have been a natural Temu Disney princess. Got unnerving cheerfulness for it. She should go back to that. Leave reality TV for the real ones.

u/Aparanta — 24 days ago
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It's about the pay check for Lindsey, not Ciara or morals etc.

I find it really disheartening in this clip from Marie Claire where Lindsey is saying she essentially told Amanda to dump West not from a moral perspective but from a "get your job back" perspective. And she breaks it down saying "we have very different values. I value my job." But do you not value Ciara? Decency? Even Amanda's longterm mental health (because we all know that relationship is going up in flames)? Why is it all about Barbie Girl-Boss Capitalism right now and not what is right? Ciara is a real human being at the centre of this, she is a black cast member who was significantly misled and mistreated by two of her white cast members and the big take away is "Amanda, think of your job."? No. I'm sorry that's disgusting. And also wildly telling because Lindsey has made herself the spokesperson of this scandal of which she want not even a part of so she can go on the view, do interviews like this one, and monetize the pain of a black woman (while talking to a black women and being utterly oblivious). It's gross.

Interview (go to timestamp 26:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk9C1SLZFhQ

u/Aparanta — 27 days ago
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I'm sorry but Zack is so FAKE for this on the after show

It's honestly just feeling like bullying at this point. She does something and Kristen, Zack, Nia, Danny they just move the goal post. They want an apology, Janet does it. Then they don't like how she gave the apology, Janet tries again. Then they declare the apology insincere. I mean at this point just own the fact you live in Tammy Faye Bookos comments section and you are completely controlled by paralyzing fear of Krazy Kristen who is determined to protect that friendship because her insensitive baby daddy clearly admires the power dynamic Danny and Nia have. The end. Thank you for listening to my dissertation.

u/Aparanta — 28 days ago
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Lacey Nicole Housewife Audition

White on black on white on crystal. Feel like she would have LOVED to be on the OC and this interior fits the vibe

u/Aparanta — 1 month ago
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Let's Circle Back to the ET Interview PLEASE ***

I'm mostly a lurker on Reddit, but this interviewer genuinely incensed me from the opening question.

The framing is doing a tremendous amount of work. He describes Jasmine's account as "hearsay," which is simply incorrect—she is one of the people Danny allegedly did this to. That's firsthand testimony, not hearsay. Then he refers to "drunken memories of things," as though intoxication somehow invalidates an account. Jasmine is lucid and consistent in her telling; whether she'd been drinking at the time has no bearing on whether her allegations deserve to be taken seriously.

He then caps it off with, "Does dark-side Danny even exist?" That's not a neutral question. It's a rhetorical device that plants doubt while allowing the interviewer to hide behind "I'm just asking questions." It reminds me of the Tucker Carlson style of framing: "Is sexism even real?" or similar questions where the implication is baked into the premise. It's a cheap bad-faith tactic.

I know this isn't meant to be hard-hitting journalism, but it's still disappointing to see a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, my community, Jasmine and Melissa's community, approach the situation with such obvious bias.

I also think people overlook an important aspect of this case: Danny allegedly targeted a lesbian couple. That matters. There is a long history of some men fetishizing lesbian women and feeling emboldened to harass or SA them because they assume there isn't a male partner present who will physically challenge them. Add to that the fact that Jasmine is a Black woman—a group whose reports of SA have historically been minimized or ignored—and the choice of target becomes even more concerning.

To me, that doesn't suggest someone who stumbled into bad behavior. It suggests someone who instinctively understands which situations offer the least resistance and the fewest consequences. A predator doesn't need to be academically intelligent to recognize vulnerable targets.

As for Janet, I think there's an important distinction people keep collapsing. She wasn't wrong to point out that Danny's own actions led to this situation. Where she misstepped, in my opinion, was not allowing Jasmine and Melissa to determine how they wanted the situation handled. That's a legitimate criticism.

But equating an imperfect ally—who is herself a survivor of SA and appeared to be responding through the lens of her own trauma—with the person accused of committing the SA is intellectually dishonest. Those are not morally equivalent positions.

The interviewer, meanwhile, repeatedly framed the discussion in ways that undermined the credibility of the women involved. I found that deeply disappointing and, frankly, reflective of both internalized misogyny and a lack of understanding of how homophobia and racism shape whose stories are believed.

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u/Aparanta — 1 month ago