Oct 23 |
Readers Gallery: Reality Bites Back scarier than skeletons and Fox News?How much do I love your enthusiasm? Your pictures keep rolling in, showing that Reality Bites Back readers are a diverse group — women and men, kids and adults, and people from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and geographic regions. I particularly enjoy the way some of you seem to be having fun with this Readers Gallery community. For example: It takes a lot to scandalize someone whose work regularly has them negotiating with local politicians in Washington D.C. Nevertheless, here’s historic preservation expert Kristen Harbeson at the Capitol, shocked–SHOCKED!–by what she’s reading in Reality Bites Back: As it turns out, Kristen can’t figure out what aggravates her more: sexism and manipulation in reality television… or anything at all on Fox News: Just outside Los Angeles, professor Melanie Klein’s son, Atticus, wonders which is scarier: reality TV “Frankenbites” (see page 27 in the book, or read my explanation in this Macleans interview) — or little curly-haired skeletons? If our Twitter conversations have told me anything, I predict that Danielle’s raised eyebrows hint at both the bemusement |