Monday, November 19

Kinda like the mall in Paramus

Here's the promo text for tomorrow's episode of The Tyra Banks Show: "Trading Faces -- In her latest social experiment, Tyra goes undercover with some extremely unattractive features... ." And then we see Tyra, dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt, hair in a curly mullet, thick eyebrows, and the ever-popular hillbilly teeth.
I know! We're all supposed to gasp, turn our heads and say things like, "Oh my! Look how ugly Tyra can be!" Then she'll wander around some shops, along some streets and into a restaurant or two, and make a big deal about how differently she's treated when she's dressed up all ugly.
Are you as insulted by this as I? So this is what Tyra thinks of ugly girls. She'd be all, "Girls, be true to yourselves and be happy with your own special kind of beauty," ... as long as you don't wear jeans, have a mullet, or sport some messed up teeth. You girls are ugly and will be gawked at walking down the streets of Manhattan.
I'm reminded of Tyra's fat girl experiment, and begin to wonder. I think Tyra proposes these "experiments" simply to boost her own self esteem, rather than her cover story to catch the world at its own looks-matter-so-much game. I mean, think about it, she gets to go out, be totally ridiculed, ignored, or treated badly because she's "ugly" or "fat," and then gets to come home, remove her ugliness, and sit back with a glass of wine and the snuggly thought, "Thank god, I'm beautiful. Those ugly and fat girls have got it bad."

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