"WAGS stands for wives and girlfriends of sports stars," is a incessant line you will hear on E!'s series WAGS.
The original series is based in Los Angeles and revolves around the lives of women who date or are married to professional athletes. Although this show does seem to glorify being with an athlete by depicting it as the acme of success and fortune, there are certain women on WAGS who advocate independence.
Essentially WAGS is like any other show on the E! channel, trashy television that promotes vanity, greed and fame. Yet, being a normal female living in a world of materialism, I cannot deny that I am an avid watcher of WAGS.
Aside from these pitfalls, I can argue that many of the women on the show have amazing fashion and often offer beauty tips which I always enjoy listening to.
So when E! announced that it would be releasing a spinoff called WAGS Miami, I figured I would watch the first episode. It was quickly became apparent that if WAGS embodied the previously mentioned vices then WAGS Miami was the epitome of these vices. The women introduced spoke of unwritten etiquette which involved numerous ways to keep "their men" happy. Ultimately, their lives seem to center on the sole purpose of tending to their significant others.
The tipping point came when one of the women on the show explained that when she and her husband first began dating they were walking past a group of females who had large breasts. The woman turned to find her partner staring at them. After he was done, he turned back to his at-the-time-girlfriend and told her that she needed to get her boobs done. The wag ended her story by telling her friends that she scheduled her consultation the next day.
I was astonished to see the distance to which these girls will go to please these athletes. Although I enjoyed watching WAGS, as it did portray strong women who supported themselves financially, the WAGS spinoff clearly exemplifies the lives of females who invest their time into creating a perfect facade of themselves that will please professional athletes.
