Monday, November 20, 2006

Reality Television Pushing Healthy Girls to "GET HOTTER" or else.

Has anyone seen the new Dallas Texas Cheerleaders reality television show? My roommate was watching a marathon yesterday and I couldnt help but listen in. The show documents the journey of a 40-girl group of potential Dallas Texas cheerleaders and their journey to making the team. It also reveals another example of the ridiculous standards women are put to. If these girls were cut based on a lack of talent alone (which yes some are) and not because of the way their body looks in the uniform or their bottoms looking "too large" then I would consider this an ethical audition. Listening to the show you hear the two middle-aged judges critique the "fattness" of girls photographs, these girls who work out hours a day and are in amazing shape! What they propose is that these girls meet requirments impossible for many body types, regardless of diet or exercise. Im repulsed as I watch these poor gorgeous women cry over their bodies and their inability to achieve their dream of making this team despite their heatlhy and by no means overweight frames.
As girls are cut the coaches utter , "too bad...she was so pretty." Let us please analyze this phrase. Too bad, she was pretty? How about too bad... she was so smart... she had such an amazing drive ... or she had a lot of talent.
Even more sickening is that it is women who are perpetuating the focus on looks as opposed to talent. I guess sometimes women can be the most vicious enemy to the esteem of their own sex.

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