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The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Deliver Us From Mia
It is clear that the women of Potomac are entertaining her turmoil less and less with every passing saga.
In my group chats with other culture writers who happen to be Bravo obsessives, I have long entertained conspiracy theories about how one of the underappreciated themes that ties together all of the Housewives shows and their spinoffs is not just misogyny, patriarchy, and gender performance, but also long-simmering queer narratives. To wit, this is an actual text I sent to Paper magazine’s inimitableJoan Summers in November, after a particularly trying episode of Potomac: “Jacqueline does add layers to my running ‘the engine that keeps housewives afloat is a bunch of queer women suffering from comphet’ canon I have been slowly building.” I’m not here to render a verdict on experiences with voyeurism at 19 or kink-shame Jacqueline’s recreational hobby of hooking up with other women for her on-and-off partner’s pleasure — I would just like for at least one of these stories to be coherent, easy to follow, and consistent, for no other reason than to help us get a clear picture of the actual dynamic between these two “best friends.”
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