Billy Arroyo: "Can you imagine a wealthy Miami Cubana with implants, lip injections, designer clothes and out of control children? No thanks."

Bravo's Real Housewives of (insert name privileged city) franchise has yet to include Latina moms. But we're not complaining. If you haven't seen the show, then you're missing out on some ridiculously awful - slash - "can't take my eyes of of it" TV programming.

Bravo won't win any Emmy Awards for the Real Housewives franchise but the reality TV show -- which follows "real" housewives in New York, Atlanta, New Jersey and Orange County -- continues to be a successful series for the cable network that created Project Runway and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

And though we've yet to see a Latina housewife on any one of the 4 series spinoffs, this is not a complaint, it's a sigh of relief. Can you imagine a wealthy Miami Cuban mom with implants, lip injections, designer clothes and out of control children? No thank you.

The Real Housewives series has focused on vapid, but wealthy women in high income neighborhoods who spend money freely, constantly fight amongst each other, send their kids to fat camps and boarding schools, raise money for charity -- all while toting a glass of Chardonnay in hand.

It's Park Avenue cat fights for the wives of wealthy men -- in a way it's perfectly harmless. But the only women of color we've seen were featured in The Real Housewives of Atlanta -- the most top-rated of the 4 franchise series -- if that tells you anything about TV culture.

So, though it's great to see successful people of color on screen, it's disparaging to see that these women are just as bland and empty and superficial as their caucasian counterparts. The women of Atlanta weren't interested in grassroots communiy activism, and something tells me their rich Latina counterparts won't be either.

For this reason, please Bravo don't feature any Latinas on your Real Housewives series -- even if you do go to Miami or Los Angeles or Dallas wherever there is a large population of affluent HIspanic people. Personally I'd rather watch the "real" struggles of moms of East LA or Harlem or Chicago's inner city. Imaginate?

We don't need to be reminded that Hispanic moms can be just as ridiculous and easily exploited as the "white moms" we've all come to loathe and love.