Thoughtless for the Day

This is a sad time for those of with a keen interest in the Classical World; for a tragedy has taken place on par with the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Since there's no way to sugarcoat this, and as many of you have probably already read about it at Archaeologica News, I'm just going to come out and say it: Ripsi has been kicked out of the house on "Bad Girls Club"

For those of you who may have been in the field or working on your PhD's for the last few weeks, Bad Girls Club is the show that picks up where Elimidate left off: pursuing the philosophical question of whether or not it's "classy" to go to Third Base on the first date. The basic premise is that seven women are given a large house in the hills of LA, in exchange for which they are expected to drink themselves stupid and run around in various states of undress. It's pretty much the way Henry David Thoreau envisioned Walden Pond. The housemates include(d) three generic blondes, two sistas (whose main role is to shake their heads in disbelief and mutter "What the fuck is wrong with White people?"), a brunette from South Philly (The subtlety brilliant Aimee, who functions as a sort of Greek Chorus: "She's gonna cheat on her boyfriend....watch." ), and the sorely missed Ripsi.
Here's the teaser for the show:

So what happened? Well, fans of the show would tell you "Ripsi and Zara got drunk, and then Ripsi started punching Kerry and Jodi." [While it's never acceptable to hit a woman, Gandhi would've probably split Kerry lip ten minutes after meeting her.] And that's the way it might appear to the untrained eye, but to any one with even the slightest familiarity with the Classics, it was clear that Ripsi was just doing her duty as a maenad. She was merely exercising her right to practice her religion as she sees fit: and she was unjustly punished for it. Do you think that had she'd spent all day in church praying instead of chugging Smirnoff by the pool she would've been kicked out of the Bad Girls Club? OK, I guess she would've been: bad example. My point is that just as everybody knows that you don't sit next to Dennis, it's common knowledge that you never interrupt a maenad during a Bacchae. Just ask King Pentheus. Duh! Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with White people?

If you have some time to kill, why not search for Euripides' profile on the BGC web site