Am I the crazy one? Here I thought the middle finger emoji was the clearest way to tell a person to go fuck themselves. Fuck you, ”- a reference to a text exchange between the two that ended with Gay sending a pair of thumbs up emojis, which, according to an insulted Barlow, is “universal text code” for fuck you.īut wait. And until you figure out what it is that I trigger in you, we can’t have a good solid conversation and move forward. Lisa Barlow (who considers herself “Mormon 2.0”) says to Heather Gay (a self-proclaimed “good Mormon gone bad”), “I have never done anything mean to you. Let’s set the scene: The ladies of Salt Lake City, the 10th American Housewives franchise, are seated at a dinner. And it’s all because of this: 👍, the thumbs-up emoji, that this debate's lived rent free in our minds for weeks. But it’s the latest fracas that has permeated the Housewives ether and ignited a larger, albeit no less tacky, cultural conversation. Cast members (and the show’s editors) have turned the ability to make the most mundane fights into extraordinary, multi-episode-long events, all for loyal viewers to devour week after week. Consider Luann de Lesseps and Dorinda Medley’s fight over the designer Jovani Teresa Giudice’s feud with her sister-in-law, Melissa Gorga, about sprinkle cookies the Sonja Morgan Tipsy Girl versus Bethenny Frankel Skinnygirl battle! Epic. If there’s one thing Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise is known for, it’s the ability to platform lowbrow discourse.

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