Vanderpump Ep.10: Allow & Appreciate Anger for Ariana and us All!

Dr. Kay & Dr. Ray discuss episode 10 of Season 11 of Vanderpump Rules. They talk about the first two events for which Ariana had to share a nightmarishly small space with Tom Sandoval: the water tasting and the beach. Ariana’s justified anger is met with distaste from her crew, despite her almost losing a second dog, this time at the hands of Tom, rather than while Rachel was in the hands of Tom. Oh, and he tries to low-key blame Ann.

Dr.s Kay & Ray also do Testosterboned & Relationship Test segments, leading to discussion of Katie & Schwartz’s sexual tension--the first we've seen of it--and The Valley. Last, Dr. Kay does a Mental Health Check-Up about societal & gendered oppression of emotion.

References for Mental Health Check-up:

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596

Hill Collins, P. (1990). Black feminist thought. Routledge.

Gregory, P. (2023). Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History. William Collins.

Kagan, J. (2007). What is emotion? History, measures, and meanings. Yale University Press.

Storage, D., Charlesworth, T., Banaji, M., Cimpian, A. (2020). Adults and children implicitly associate brilliance with men more than women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104020

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