Oh my lord, please tell me you don't watch this show. Unlike me, who is sitting here suffering through the pseudo-drama and soft coreness of it all. Wow. This show bites. Oh, yes, it has all the elements of reality television: faux connections between total strangers (ie, Tyra's "heart to hearts" with "the girls"), plenty of T&A for the adolescent (and not-so-adolescent) males, faux drama as one girl tearily calls her boyfriend to say how hard it is because she has to give "like, 100% every photo shoot," (the poor thing!) and the standard hard-knock stories about rough childhoods to make you root for one or another of the "girls" based on her parents having divorced when she was little, as if no one else in the world has managed to hold it together after a divorce and do something as grueling and selfless and life affirming as, um, modeling. Yeah. Okay.
You know that this show got greenlighted because it featured ample boobage, (can I say this on a blog?--) a preponderance of cameltoe, and borderline anorexia, which is apparently attractive in the US these days. I'm actually kind of struck how none of the "girls" is actually what you'd consider pretty. They look like models, in the sense that they are not pretty, but rather have the right number of millimeters between their eyes, the right number of ribs showing, and (with the exception of one actually cute African-American woman, Toccara) the right number of BMI points below the lowest healthy limit. Also, let us not forget Janice Dickinson--the horribly plastic-surgeried has-been model whose only real remaining feature is her mile-long mean streak. Oh--and speaking of mean critiques, I forgot to mention the requisite number of b*tchy gay men trashing the "girls'" performance and appearance. One man actually said to one of the African-American women while she was modeling, "Keep it loose. Don't get ghetto in the face, missy!" I'm sorry--how is that NOT offensive? How is Tyra Banks part of this? How am *I* part of this?!! Kill me now. And if Miz Banks says, "...in the running towards being America's Next Top Model" one more time, I swear I will scream. It's like her contract stipulates that she must mention the show's name every 45 seconds that she is on-screen.
Short Story Long: Oh my lord. I don't know why I'm watching this. I think I'm just too tired to get up and find the remote...
3 comments:
I agree. This show blows. Among the reality TV shows, which I confess to actually enjoying, this one is nothing but eating disorders and annoying women. I'm posting anonymously because I don't want to admit that I have watched this show. I've cleared my TIVO from here on out, however. I'd rather watch Masterpiece Theater.
Once you watch it once, you MUST watch it every week, so as to not miss that awkward moment when they finally ditch the fat girl. How long will they keep her hanging? When will they finally admit to the impossibility of a fat next top model?
Thank you for saying that! It's like they want so badly to pretend they are committed to "diversity" but you are right: there will never be a "fat" ANT Model. BTW, the "fat" one is, like, 140 pounds, which for her height is not that heavy. The only acceptable way to have boobs that size is to not have the hips to match, which sadly does not occur in nature but does occur in modeling. See Tyra Banks for living proof.
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