Argue with your mama: I’m tired of the way Sierra is being treated on Summer House. Full stop. And if you’re not tired too, you either don’t have eyes, or you’re willfully ignoring the racial and gender dynamics that keep playing out on this show every. single. damn. season.

Sierra has been the only consistently reoccurring Black woman in the Summer House universe — a show that markets itself as aspirational millennial chaos with cocktails — and yet somehow, she is always positioned as the villain, the Jezebel, the “threat,” or the “cold-hearted beauty” who “just doesn’t open up enough.” Meanwhile, white women on this show can full-on combust, throw wine, scream until their throat chakras collapse, and still walk away as “misunderstood.”

Let me be very clear: what Sierra is dealing with is textbook racialized misogyny — and I’m over it.

The “Intimidation” Narrative Is Lazy. And Racist.

First of all, I hate the word “intimidating” when it comes to Black women. It’s a backhanded compliment that cloaks fear and bias in faux admiration. And Sierra? She gets that label every episode.

Let’s unpack it: Sierra is smart (she’s a literal nurse), she’s beautiful (like, actually stunning), she’s chill (until provoked, and even then, she gives y’all grace) — and somehow she still ends up being the one people “don’t know how to approach.” Why? Because she doesn’t perform the palatable, doe-eyed vulnerability y’all expect from Black women in predominantly white spaces.

Let’s call it what it is: y’all are uncomfortable with Sierra not catering to your expectations.

Lindsey’s Entitlement Is Loud, But Not Groundbreaking

Let’s talk about Lindsey. Loud. Obnoxious. Selective memory-having Lindsey.

She’s the type of girl who can literally terrorize the entire house, cry about it over a spritz, and then decide she’s the victim. Lindsey never holds herself accountable — ever — but she’ll be first in line to call out Sierra for breathing incorrectly.

It’s giving unhinged white girl energy. It’s giving “I can yell at everyone but cry when they respond.” It’s giving the exact reason why so many Black women don’t feel safe in these reality TV spaces.

Sierra doesn’t need to be “strong” around Lindsey. She needs to be respected. Period.

Lexi Is Just Lala Kent in a “Clean Girl” Filter

Lexi really tried it this season. First of all — Sierra told you to keep her name out your mouth. And yet… here we are. Again. And again.

Lexi’s got that polite, Canadian “oops I’m messy but I’m soft-spoken” act down to a science. But don’t get it twisted. She’s giving Single White Female energy with a side of Kylie Jenner 2016 aesthetic cosplay.

In fact, I didn’t realize it was possible for so many white women to be each other’s carbon copies. Lexi is literally just Lala if Lala shopped at Glossier and didn’t use AAVE every four seconds. Still just as passive-aggressive. Still deeply insecure. Still weirdly obsessed with Sierra.

Honestly? Lexi is a less abrasive but equally exhausting version of the same copy-paste “jealous white girl” trope that reality TV keeps serving us. Can we retire it already?

Sierra Deserves Better. Period.

Sierra deserves better from the cast. From Bravo. From the viewers. She’s carrying this franchise on her back with elegance, restraint, and hella patience.

And what pisses me off most? She’s the only one on that show who walks in not trying to cosplay “reality TV extra.” She’s real. She’s quiet until she’s not. She’s trying to be a normal, three-dimensional human being on a show that only rewards white women for being either a victim or a villain.

She’s neither. And that’s the problem for them.

TL;DR:

The way Sierra is treated on Summer House is the same way Black women are treated in predominantly white spaces everywhere — doubted, dissected, and discarded for simply existing in their full self.

And I’m over it.

Bravo, do better. And somebody get Sierra her own spinoff, stat.