I'd agree that she's got a beauty that feels unattainable to the average/below-average in looks, but I'd also say that she seems healthy, she talks about food, and seems to want to empower women rather than make them feel like martyrs.
I don't think that I've seen too many men on Tyra's show, but they also aren't the audience she's trying to target on a daytime talk show (regardless of how many tune in to wack-off to her).
How do you figure that it's unfair for women to feel victimized? Women can feel victimized about whatever they want, just as men can feel victimized about going "wild" over some bombshell at a strip club.
Also, would women feel the need to strain themselves to look "perfect" if Tyra's people didn't get some positive feedback from society and from the male gender? The difference between a celebrity and a nobody (even if it's a gorgeous nobody) is a fanbase.
"...if you make yourself fat, should you feel victimized by the companies which sold you the products that made you fat?"
You only said before that is was the "system" that allows women to feel victimized. If one has control over one's appearance and simply refuse to take responsibility for it, then there is no way they can be the victim. But like I said before, a negative self-image of (a healthy person) can be traced back to the pressures of society, and all that nonsense. Never being quite pretty enough, or quite rich enough to afford the latest fashion, or quite tall enough; material concerns that didn't just spring up out of the ground.
And I'll grant that women idolize the celebrities. So do men--for the same reason that you brought up. It's glamour and elegance that most people don't get in everyday life.
This topic has the whole chicken-or-egg/vicious circle attitude. The more emphasis people put on that look being "ideal," the more people aspire to look like that, which in turn is just more emphasis, etc.
You only said before that is was the "system" that allows women to feel victimized. If one has control over one's appearance and simply refuse to take responsibility for it, then there is no way they can be the victim.
there's the rub, the tv show, part of the system, is telling people to feel victimized when they should instead exert control over their sex lives or so on
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I'd agree that she's got a beauty that feels unattainable to the average/below-average in looks, but I'd also say that she seems healthy, she talks about food, and seems to want to empower women rather than make them feel like martyrs.
I don't think that I've seen too many men on Tyra's show, but they also aren't the audience she's trying to target on a daytime talk show (regardless of how many tune in to wack-off to her).
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And yes, I realized that she's basically catering to a certain demographic and has to center her show around what would entertain them.
But still!
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Also, would women feel the need to strain themselves to look "perfect" if Tyra's people didn't get some positive feedback from society and from the male gender? The difference between a celebrity and a nobody (even if it's a gorgeous nobody) is a fanbase.
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You only said before that is was the "system" that allows women to feel victimized. If one has control over one's appearance and simply refuse to take responsibility for it, then there is no way they can be the victim. But like I said before, a negative self-image of (a healthy person) can be traced back to the pressures of society, and all that nonsense. Never being quite pretty enough, or quite rich enough to afford the latest fashion, or quite tall enough; material concerns that didn't just spring up out of the ground.
And I'll grant that women idolize the celebrities. So do men--for the same reason that you brought up. It's glamour and elegance that most people don't get in everyday life.
This topic has the whole chicken-or-egg/vicious circle attitude. The more emphasis people put on that look being "ideal," the more people aspire to look like that, which in turn is just more emphasis, etc.
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there's the rub, the tv show, part of the system, is telling people to feel victimized when they should instead exert control over their sex lives or so on
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