Does BRAVO's Andy Cohen hate women?

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:04am

After seeing how behaves on his shows I really am starting to wonder if Andy Cohen hates women. He is starting to feel like a gay misogynist to me. I mean he casts these Housewife shows with women who he mocks whenever they are not in front of him, patronizes when they are in front of him, and then exploits and really seems to emotionally victimize at times.

Before anyone says these women ask for it, with any misogynist there are always women with little to no self esteem lining up for them. He is starting to rub me the wrong way-a master manipulator of women.

Am I alone in thinking this?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 1:54am

He's more of a misanthrope than a misogynist.

Updated On: 2/2/11 at 01:54 AM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:09pm

I never really thought about it that way. Maybe because I'm always making fun of those women too.

[danmag]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:22pm

Hmmm. Interesting question.

I guess if I had to hang out with Camille Grammar and Danielle Staub, I might hate women, too.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:48pm

But is Danielle really a woman? I mean with the amount of silicone and other chemicals in her body and the number of procedures she's had who knows what she really started life as. There are times when I'm not even entirely sure she's human.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 3:27pm

As long as he loves boys, then I am happy!

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 4:45pm

I used to like him and even thought he was cute but he just annoys the heck out of me now.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 4:55pm

What is an Andy Cohen?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 5:22pm

He's on Bravo, Diva. He's behind the Real Housewives shows and hosts the reunion shows. Plus he has his own show.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 5:25pm

He looks like a Ken doll.

All plasticy.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 5:34pm

A Ken Doll with chest hair.

[misschung]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 8:36pm

He thinks women are his personal Barbie dolls.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 8:41pm

I'm going to spend some alone time with that picture now.

[bethnor]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 9:08pm

i'm sure he treats those women that way because it's as "real" as the "real" housewives are, which is as "real" as kim's hair, which is to say not real at all. of course things really happen as they do on camera, but i don't see how anyone can have any doubt that everything the viewer sees is staged to some degree, even if it is nothing more than a producer or cameraman egging the women on. how else could each successive season of these shows somehow be more outrageous than the last, and not only that, but more outrageous than the other incarnation of the show to air?

in other words, however andy treats the women, i'm sure they're "in" on it for the same reason they're "in" on the show, no matter how much they whine on interviews: it lights up the blogosphere and jacks the ratings, even for andy's little show. after all, nene is going on celebrity apprentice, betheny frankel has her own show, etc., etc., and have entire cult followings based on how catty they are to one another. life could be worse.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 9:56pm

I don't want to think he hates women, because I think he's hilarious. And I'm a woman.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 12:41am

>He thinks women are his personal Barbie dolls.

Like the guy who produced SatC.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 1:52am

But if they (Darren Starr and Andy Cohen) hate women, then what does that say about the women who flock to this stuff?

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 7:14am

He can be seriously annoying, but I look at him more as a circus ringmaster or an animal wrangler.

He gets these women all together in a pretty confined space and just lets them have at it. He encourages the sensational but the women somehow manage to provide the drama all on their own.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 7:29am

You know who is the biggest misogynist working in the entertainment business.

Lars Von Trier. The extent to which that man hates women is pathological. Did anyone see Antichrist?

If you didn't, don't b/c it's a terrible movie. But his whole point is (I think) that women, going back to original sin, are the devil's agents on earth here to destroy man.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 3:15pm

^ That's pretty much just Danmag, though.

[danmag]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 3:29pm

Oh, Reg....that was my OLD agenda. Now I'm just bent on world domination!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 3:35pm

Andy's been working out!

And what's wrong with hiring people just so you can mock them? That's what I do...it passes the time!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 3:38pm

"Now I'm just bent on world domination!"

So, drinks will be cheaper.

[danmag]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 3:42pm

A bottle of Patron for every citizen.

And Andy, if you're reading this thread, Stockard and I are totally up for RHOBWW. And we don't care if you hate us.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 2/3/11 at 4:28pm

Hey, I thought I was going to be a housewife too!! Damn, do I have to be the cross-dressing singer/hairdresser on this one? I bet you'd rather have Tdiva, huh?