Stephen Fowler: Wife Swap Fowler backlash (photo)
By Clarencia Cynrae on February 11th, 2009Stephen Fowler, a husband contestant on the TV Reality show “Wife Swap” was accused of ill treating his temporary spouse, Gayla Long. Fowler has received backlash for his behavior on Wife Swap.
Stephen Fowler forgot or purposefully ignored the rules of Wife Swap. The spouse is supposed to get into the spirit of the game by adapting to Wife Swap. Instead, Mr Fowler berated Ms Long. Fowler humiliated Long for who she was.
Fowler was aware of his actions. Eventually, he himself could no longer stomach his own behavior and asked the producers to move Ms Long out for the remainder of the Wife Swap schedule. Ms Long stayed at a hotel nearby. Fowler received a tirade of backlash for his outrageous behavior on camera. Some social networking websites have supposedly banned or removed Stephen Fowler to protest his treatment of Ms Long.
Stephen Fowler has apologized by virtue of a brief note on his wife’s (Renee Stephens) website.
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February 12th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Seems to me the best way to get back at this puke is to do the exact opposite of what he wants us all to do. for presidents day weekend I suggest another “national carbon belch day” google it, they have a calculator and everything. I’m going to do 206 pounds per day over the long weekend. 4 times the average American.
February 12th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I saw this show and wanted to give this bully idiot a piece of my mind. I live in San Francisco andI have never seen anyone behave so badly. Gayla was a really good person with diffrent ideas, he could have learned something from her.
February 13th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
The guy actually turned out to be completely self-destructive. For anyone who makes a living by building relationships, the show should be mandatory viewing as an example of how not to act.
Who will want to to business with this guy? Though he’s insecure and an elitist, he managed to humiliate his family and alienate at least some of his professional colleagues. (He resigned from some boards.)
What could have been at worst a lark, and perhaps even an illuminating learning experience was a showcase for self-destruction and humiliation for himself and his family.
The other family grew from the experience.
February 14th, 2009 at 2:45 am
I am a rarity: a person who has lived and worked among highly- educated, liberal people and who gave it all up to move in among blue-collar people. I will swear before the God in heaven that the latter life is infinitely preferable. If you watch the clips, the saddest part is the Fowler’s little girl, and I have seen dozens of liberal households with children just like this: heavily indoctrinated, carefully fashioned to put performance above all else in life, missing even the slightest amount of normal childhood experience. I hope that nice woman in Missouri knows how lucky she is that she has been spared the life of Mrs. Fowler. What we saw there at the end of the show was a classic enabler/abuser relationship, and I can attest from experience that many of these so-called “cultured” males are vicious wife-abusers behind closed doors.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I spend a great deal of time in SF (two to three months a year) and I am sorry to say that people with this attitude are not that unusual. I have seen it a number of times.
In the East Coast city in which I live, and have for several decades, I have never, ever heard anyone talk this way about or to another person.
There is an unfortunate emphasis put on status and money in that city that makes me very uncomfortable.
He speaks of his IQ. I know a great number of Ivy League-educated, extremely intelligent, very well-born and wealthy people who would no more speak to another human being in the way in which he spoke to this woman than pigs would fly.
Lastly, it is apalling to see how and what he is teaching his children. It borders on criminal. If something about common decency isn’t taught to them, they’re doomed to become like the socially-challenged, ignorant and insensitive beasts from which they were spawned.
February 19th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
August 37, you are hanging around with the wrong crowd when you come to SF if you think this behavior is not uncommon. I have lived here for over 30 years (as a resident, not a visitor) and I can testify it is highly uncommon. You will encounter more friendly faces on strangers in a day in SF than a week in many other big cities. If you look lost people will stop and ask if you need directions. Put yourself in the wrong place in any major city and you will witness bad and boorish behavior. This issue isn’t about where he lives, but the type of person he is. Do you think he moved to SF a decade ago a nice and considerate person and somehow the locale turned him into a monster? Try to set aside your prejudice and see it is the person who is the issue and not the city. You’ll find abusive educated pigs throughout the world. This one just happened to be stupid and arrogant enough to think it would make him look sophisticated on national television.
February 19th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
He is an ABUSER!!
There was a very telling moment for me that says it all about the Fowler marriage; the moment when Mrs. Fowler asked Mr. Long if he was going to hit her after she disagreed with him. Never mind how his children were afraid to say they were having fun, were visibly terrified of their own father.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
he is a city boy faggot