I watch HGTV a lot. I love the shows focused on buying or renting a house: House Hunters(Internaional), Property Virgins, My First Place, For Rent...etc.
The things that bother me are:
1. When every man feels the need to say that they can use the bonus room for their "man cave". Why can't they just call it a media room? Or the game room? Man cave makes them sound like such idiots. It's such a dorky thing to say. And I bet saying it makes them feel more manly, but it doesn't. It really doesn't. The funny thing is, that most of the men that use the phrase, "man cave" are nerds. Very awkward, embarrassing, uncorrdinated, scrawny guys, who look as though they play video games all day, rather than watching football. Not all of the man cave men are nerds, some of them are big beefy guys, who don't know any better. But usually the men who call it a man cave are doing it to feel manlier.
2. This bothers me even more. When couples go house hunting, and the woman ALWAYS feels the need to say something along the lines of, "I love this walk-in closet. It's as big as a full bathroom. But honey, where would you put your clothes?" Followed by a stupid ditzy giggle. Or, "I see my closet, by where is yours?" We get it. For years women have been trying to commically imply that they have a ton of clothing, purses and shoes on these house hunting shows and it's getting old. Why can't women say, "This is a nice size, if everything doesn't fit in here, we could always buy another dresser." Don't they understand yet, that all their doing is inflaming the stereotype that all women know how to do is shop? I have had HGTV on for 2 hours now, and every woman mentioned having to hog the walk-in closet because of a glutenous amount of clothing and accessories. Every man mentioned needing a man cave.
Oh and by the way, the goofy dork that is in need of a man cave in the episode I'm watching right now, was drinking red wine, pinky out. Somebody better get that lion back in his cage!
3. The people with 1 kid, who claim to be outgrowing their 4 bedroom 2.5 bathroom home. I'm now watching a new episode; no longer the episode with the man cave dork. The couple in this episode have a 2 year old son, a 4 bedroom 2.5 bathroom 2600 sq. ft. house that they are out growing. They have 2 spare rooms, how are they outgrowing anything?! Why do 2.5 people need enough room for an 8 people? Greedy much? It's insanity. No matter how much money I had, I would never buy a house bigger than I really needed.
And the mom in this couple kept refering to their 2 year old as "the baby". "The baby" was talking though. And she kept saying, "I think the baby likes it." Never "he" never a name, just the baby.... Weird.
The couple I'm watchhing now
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