I, on the other hand, have never liked Aniston. Don‘t even know why. I only barely watched Friends.

I am not going to drop it... but Tyra looks like her outfit came straight from Kohl’s head to toe.

Exactly. It diminishes women in that role—like when they do that job, it’s not as hard as a regular ceo. ETA: And god forbid a woman lead a company that sells women-centric products! DEFINITELY don’t take her seriously then! -blech-

Every time I see Versace mentioned...

Man who was out-acted by a Teddy Bear.

Old enough to be in a position of authority and coerce a teenager into a sex act. What is this question?

He was her fucking youth pastor. Don’t try to excuse him. JFC.

How old is too old to drive a teen in your congregation to a secluded road without her permission and demand she touch you sexually?

I kinda wonder if this is more about the network change. Schadenfreude reality TV was more Fox’s thing with shows like Joe Millionaire (and that absolute cringe second season), The Swan and whatever their Wife Swap ripoff was. The humiliation auditions were a fit for a Fox reality show but ABC’s reality shows lighten…

I remember one episode that I think started the backlash.....they actually mocked a guy for how he looked, I think they were calling him a spider monkey or something, really mean. I think he might have had some kind of social issues as well....and you could tell he was really embarrassed. It went from simply calling…

Agreed. I didn’t much care for these shows to begin with, but the hype around tearing down well-intentioned people for the audience’s delight was never fun. It actually reminded me of junior high, which was really damned depressing.

“It doesn’t feel comfortable to put borderline unstable people up on stage and laugh at them,” she says. “I think that people once thought that the judges saw everyone, and now you know there’s a line of producers who screen before them. We want the humor, but we don’t want the exploitation.”

Do any of the contestants even become big singers anymore??

Humiliation TV is trash.

Why not just scrap the whole thing? The only thing its famous for is the brutal auditions.

Do you really want a deep award show speech? I can remember two awards-show speeches off the top of my head, one is Sally Field’s “you really like me” and the other is the famous Clooney “smug” speech. I’ll take impassioned but superficial and hopefully brief every time.

I would like a President that has experience in government, please and thank you. That being said, it seems to me that a Democrat cannot win the presidency unless they are deeply charismatic: Clinton, Obama, JFK. As someone once said to me, Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. This is why Democrats…

Agreed. I love Oprah, but we need someone with political experience.

I need people to stop drafting celebrities to be President, especially Oprah.