From the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>:<\/p>\nSince the Jan. 30 episode in which the Noe Valley resident was filmed verbally demeaning Gayla Long, the Missouri woman assigned to live with his family for two weeks, an anonymous viewer has started a vitriolic Web site, StephenFowlerSucks.com, and Fowler’s cell phone number and e-mail and home addresses have been published online. The online clip from the show built so much momentum that last week it hit a mainstream peak, appearing on the front page of Yahoo.com with the headline "Husbands Behaving Badly."<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, critics of reality TV have questioned whether Fowler’s outlandish performance was for the cameras or if the cameras had captured a man at his worst. Many viewers are conscious that such shows are actually highly scripted, filmed in contrived scenarios and appear only after heavy editing.<\/p>\n
"I don’t know if (producers) asked him to do that or not," said Faith Whitfield, editor of the Web site Reality Roll Call, which covers the genre. "But if in fact he was as intelligent as he said he is, he would’ve realized it was bad for his career."<\/p>\n
In "Wife Swap," families exchange wives for two weeks, usually placing the wife in an extreme lifestyle contrast. The clean-freak mom moves into the house of a slovenly domestician.<\/p>\n
In this case, Fowler was cast as the elitist, self-satisfied San Francisco liberal, and his visitor, Long, was the slow-minded Midwesterner. During the episode, Gayla mispronounces the word "agenda," a flub for which Fowler is quick to humiliate her.<\/p>\n
He later calls her, "Undereducated, over-opinionated and overweight."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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