Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Why I'll never live in Santa Monica
Aside from the fact that you have to be a bazillionaire to afford anything there, here’s another reason I wouldn’t want to be a resident in that lame-ass excuse for a city…
I heard on the radio this morning that Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus line pulled bus ads for America’s Next Top Model. Apparently people called to complain that it was “too sexy” or racy or something. For god’s sake, it’s a group of young women, not all that scantily clad, posing by a freakin’ waterfall. (You can see the photo and an article about it here.)
These ignorant assholes callers claim that the show is “disrespectful to women”. Have they even watched it? I agree that the modeling industry is, as a whole, ridiculous in its demands for skin and bones. However Tyra disagrees with this image and has been influential in getting normal-looking people into the industry. She even tries to help with the models’ self-image and confidence. How is that disrespectful?
Now if they were banning Janice Dickenson’s show I would be all for it. That freak tells walking twist ties they need to lose weight. Lady, just hire some voodoo witch doctors to re-animate some skeletal corpses and use them as models. That is degrading to women.
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