It may seem counterintuitive, but as someone on a growth journey I love pop culture and in particular, Bravo.
The network, especially with it’s Real Housewives Genre, offers insight into the messiness that we all deal with in our personal and public lives. The shows have increasingly changed from a produced, but documentary style format to a genre that is no longer organic. But there are still lessons to learn here.
Take the Salt Lake City franchise. There are so many layers there about religion, image, and expectations put on women. And it would be a mistake to blame the Mormon church for that. The roles women are expected to play there are just a different “flavor” of what we all have to navigate and ultimately give in to or march against.
RHOSLC isn’t just about Utah or religion.
It’s about institutions, the ones that shape women long before we realize we’re performing for them.
Every woman on this show is negotiating a belief system whether it’s faith, family, marriage, image, or money.
Different rules, same conditioning: be good, be loyal, be quiet, be polished.
Marry your step grandfather.
What makes Salt Lake powerful is that it’s not just about what they believe in,
it’s about what they’re trying to believe in now. You can leave a church, a marriage, a companbut the messages about who you’re supposed to be? Those take longer to quit.
That’s the real story here. Women reframing the systems that once defined them.
Not rejecting faith, but reframing power.
Not burning it all down, but building something truer.
Reality shows can be entertaining, messy, and nonsense. But they can also be evolution, just filmed in confessionals and designer clothes.
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