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Thursday, March 22, 2007 Death becomes her...WTF? I don't watch America's Top Model, so I'm not familiar with all the shenanigans it takes to please Lady Tyra. Even so, this latest ploy is heating up the blogosphere with its outright creepiness. It seems that one of the recent ATM photo shoots involved contestants posing as murder/accident victims, supposedly going for "sexy" and gory at the same time. Which gets a resounding...WTF? I have already bitched in earlier posts about the "sexy" victims (often rape victims) that are the hallmark of the CSI series, as though violence and sex have to merge in order to reel in an audience. Who knows, maybe that is the case. But tell me what is even remotely sexy about scantily clad young women mimicing corpses with blood oozing from chest wounds, with bodies hanging out of a tub or twisted on a stairwell? The sub-titles are oh, so original: "Electrocuted by a model," "Stabbed by a model," "Pushed off a rooftop by a model," "Decapitated by a model." Again, WTF? Why must young women feed this misogynistic fantasy in order to compete on some stupid show? It just proves to me that America has a sick lust with destroyed and violated beauty, some twisted need to debase what it's obsessed with, which in some way explains the media fascination with murder victims who are young and attractive (and often white). This photo shoot plays more to a sadistic adolescent mastubatory wet dream than it does to actual adulation of female beauty. In a culture that eroticizes rape (even in romance books) and winks an eye at violence perpetuated against women, do we really need this fetishizing of death?
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