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An Afternoon With Tyra Banks: Many Smiles, Multiple Faces
New York, 4:02 PM
Sat Dec 19
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I personally feel indifferent about her. I watched some bad episodes which made me think less of her but she never reached that level of disgust that I felt about some other personalities.
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The extreme anger and what seems to be resentment in many cases is just odd to me. Why do we care this much?
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I agree -- this is their JOB. And I also agree with the jealous angle. I know I hear that in a lot of the women I hear being so down right angry about famous women in the news. For the love of god! (I want to say). She has her life, you have yours, let it go!
I also agree @femaledwightschrute: with the brand thing, but hadn't thought about it that way before! I guess it's kind of a tricky problem, though, as many famous people do truly "brand" themselves (see: Tyra Banks!), and we shouldn't be all that surprised that the public treats them like products.
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These things matter, too. It's the balance that we need to find.
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I'm not sure why, but we seem to really want our Notables -- whether they're politicians, or actors, or sports figures, or celebrities, or whatever -- to be one thing. To be either admirable, or laughable. To be smart all the time, or ridiculous all the time. And we tend to (I think) expect this especially from women (see: the virgin/whore dichotomy, but that's only one dichotomy of many).
People are many, many things, and they are often confused and confusing, even as the rise to the top or stroll about the heights they've already achieved. We're never fully formed. We're never all the things we want to be, or could be. I think that people who jig and jag all over the human map (if that makes any sense) are the most interesting people out there.
I suspect that Anna's right, that Tyra Banks isn't entirely self-aware (though, in an aside: who among us is?), but she does seem to be openly human -- I mean, willing to be public with her own growth and changes and self-contradictions. I find her interesting.
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But I do think (again, from a thin knowledge base) that she has addressed some personal flaws and foibles, and that is more than most -- on TV or off. And really all I'm saying that as an openly multi-faceted Famous Person, she's more interesting to me than many. And that I wish that we as a society wouldn't try so aggressively to pigeon-hole each other and those we've put on some kind of pedestal.
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Well, I agree with her. As far as I know, Tyra doesn't use sweat shops or create monopolies. She doesn't use corporate espionage. She doesn't pollute or dump toxic waste into the environment...oh.
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But she's actually a sag. (as is britney spears)
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(Sorry, got a Sag mom, which has skewed my worldview this topic.)
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i just hate the Tyra shows that are basically about slut shaming teenage girls even though I want to shake the shit out of those 14 year old girls that defend their desire to want to have a baby...
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gosh, remember when tyra was just a pretty model who gave interesting little tidbits? i remember she hinted at her own self-absorption from a very early interview when she was still in high school. she said that there was a 'message board' in her high school and all the things she mentioned were notices about her...for example, "tyra! you got the cover of seventeen!". what about the message "tiffany, call your mom" or "debby, please see the secretary in the office".
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As ridiculous and un-self-aware as she often is, I have a special place in my heart for crazy women who seem to own their craziness and don't apologize for it. Again, it may be lack of self-awareness, but at least she keeps things interesting. Even when she's making me furious or scoff at something utterly insane, I'm always at least partially intrigued, which is more than I can say about a lot of crazy celebs (cough, Lady Gaga, cough).
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