Friday, November 17, 2006
Beauty
The Wife watches The Official Crappiest Reality Show Ever, which of course is titled "America's Next Top Model".
Since she watches it, that means that I too watch it. It's either that, or shun The Wife like she was the Black Plague.
Last week, the show's "judges", for lack of a better word, voted off the only good looking chick on the whole show. And when I say only, I mean ONLY. Those contestants are either plain, or just plain ugly. Yet, top models are supposed to be the embodiment of beauty and a standard that women should strive for. So it begs the question: Why do we allow a small bunch of bitter women and gay men to decide what female beauty is? Their judgment is so out of whack that ugly women with the non-curvy bodies typically found on 13-year-old boys are what wins out on a show like this.
Say what you want about the internet (big fake tits aside), there are plenty of women making a living as online models only who are more representative of what men find as beautiful females. They range from slim to fat, tall to short, dark to light. But one thing they have in common is that they barely resemble the ugly, curveless, walking skeletons that the fashion industry has been parading around for the last few decades.
Since she watches it, that means that I too watch it. It's either that, or shun The Wife like she was the Black Plague.
Last week, the show's "judges", for lack of a better word, voted off the only good looking chick on the whole show. And when I say only, I mean ONLY. Those contestants are either plain, or just plain ugly. Yet, top models are supposed to be the embodiment of beauty and a standard that women should strive for. So it begs the question: Why do we allow a small bunch of bitter women and gay men to decide what female beauty is? Their judgment is so out of whack that ugly women with the non-curvy bodies typically found on 13-year-old boys are what wins out on a show like this.
Say what you want about the internet (big fake tits aside), there are plenty of women making a living as online models only who are more representative of what men find as beautiful females. They range from slim to fat, tall to short, dark to light. But one thing they have in common is that they barely resemble the ugly, curveless, walking skeletons that the fashion industry has been parading around for the last few decades.
