beautiful people
On Saturday I spent 8 quality hours watching America's Next Top Model marathon on VH1. I wish I could say I just stumbled upon it, but I'd been looking forward to it for over a week. Maybe what makes it good reality t.v. is the fact that they're all beautiful people, and who doesn't like to look at beautiful people? But then again, what reality t.v. show doesn't have beautiful people, not counting the men that Queer Eye manages to "convert." But come on, all they really do is give him a hair cut and a couple new outfits. You know he'll be wearing those tapered jeans again in about a week. And he'll never actually use all those hair products, let alone maintain the cut. He's just not a metrosexual. I don't care how many exfoliators he uses. It's like telling a gay guy to go without looking in the mirror.
So back to America's Next Top Model. It was an old season, so I won't keep the winner from you. It came down to the blond girl-next-door and the exotic biracial high fashionesque mohawked girl. The latter was the winner, and I was fine with the choice since I liked them both the same. But Ben, who I talked with once it was over, thought their choice was so stereotypical. Since when did blond hair and blue eyes become the alternative model? Let's face it. As long as a person is tall and waifish it doesn't matter what the rest of her looks like. They put so much make-up and wild hair-styles on these runway girls that anyone could look like them (given that they're already tall and skinny, with a body that resembles a 10 yr. old boy). Just give yourself raccoon eyes and teased out hair and you're a high fashion runway model.
Someone once told me a theory about why runway models are so skinny: Most designers are gay men, therefore they fantasize about little boy bodies, hence the waif. On the first season of America's Next Top Model one of the finalists was a med student. She believed that our female standard of beauty is merely the result of higher estrogen levels. She says that if we increase a baby's estrogen they will develop the following traits: small nose, small brow, big lips, etc. She was the most modelesque-looking contestant, but she didn't win because she constantly talked about how arbitrary beauty is. When the other girls were talking about how much they deserved to win, she replied with, "I don't think it's anyone's God-given right to be a model." If she didn't want to admit to the world that she was superficial enough to be a model then why the hell did she go on the show?
A model scout once told my sister that she should be a model (she's tall and naturally thin) and she replied, "I'm not going to the contribute the 13 yr. old's eating disorders."
So back to America's Next Top Model. It was an old season, so I won't keep the winner from you. It came down to the blond girl-next-door and the exotic biracial high fashionesque mohawked girl. The latter was the winner, and I was fine with the choice since I liked them both the same. But Ben, who I talked with once it was over, thought their choice was so stereotypical. Since when did blond hair and blue eyes become the alternative model? Let's face it. As long as a person is tall and waifish it doesn't matter what the rest of her looks like. They put so much make-up and wild hair-styles on these runway girls that anyone could look like them (given that they're already tall and skinny, with a body that resembles a 10 yr. old boy). Just give yourself raccoon eyes and teased out hair and you're a high fashion runway model.
Someone once told me a theory about why runway models are so skinny: Most designers are gay men, therefore they fantasize about little boy bodies, hence the waif. On the first season of America's Next Top Model one of the finalists was a med student. She believed that our female standard of beauty is merely the result of higher estrogen levels. She says that if we increase a baby's estrogen they will develop the following traits: small nose, small brow, big lips, etc. She was the most modelesque-looking contestant, but she didn't win because she constantly talked about how arbitrary beauty is. When the other girls were talking about how much they deserved to win, she replied with, "I don't think it's anyone's God-given right to be a model." If she didn't want to admit to the world that she was superficial enough to be a model then why the hell did she go on the show?
A model scout once told my sister that she should be a model (she's tall and naturally thin) and she replied, "I'm not going to the contribute the 13 yr. old's eating disorders."
posted by kristin | 10:13 PM
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