Early Oprah was horrible, exploitative and vulgar. Completely ruthless for ratings, but that was such a long time ago most people have forgotten it/never seen it. I remember an episode of her talkshow where she had a mother and her two teenage daughters on. The father in the family had molested both girls, went to…
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When you’re too extreme for South Dakotan conservatives, you done fucked up. Big league.
The guy on the far right has perfected the ‘70s ‘stache.
I know (from personal experience) that psychiatry doesn’t have the greatest background with women. But I’ve seen more than one SWERF/TERF on Twitter talk about how all psychiatry is made up, how trauma is a natural reaction that shouldn’t be treated, and it makes me think a lot of these women would really benefit from…
Was it this guy?
Pretty sure I post this every time SD comes up, but fuck do I wish that, just once, my state would make national news for something not absolutely terrifying.
That’s another thing. Growing up, I thought that show was legit, helpful, and inspiring. As an adult, I see that she only brought girls up to traumatize them, exploit them, and have them grovel at her feet. They all told such terrible stories about her.
This sounds so fucking dumb, and I really truly hope it’s open when I am in CA later this year so that me and my friends (we used to get drunk and watch Top Model every week) can get absolutely hammered and go check it out together. I’ll live tweet that shit for you guys.
Thank gods for this. I’m amazed by how much success the social conservatives have had in forcing anti-scientific “regulations” on various parts of the medical industry (while talking out the other side of their ass about “personal choice” and “responsibility”).
I mean, Colorado and Nevada are both in the Mountain West and they are reasonable-trending-blue.
My mom used to constantly bitch about Katerina Witt’s figure skating costumes, swearing that “a boob is going to pop out on purpose any minute.”
For water polo they have to wear the head gear though. I’d think diving would be the most scantily clad sport.
The first and only time I watched ANTM (and this is god knows how far back, i think i was in high school), the first challenge was to have the contestants pose in like...garbage, like a dumpster scene. They honest to god told one girl to lick a pool of weird liquid on the ground, and she did it. That was her “best…
Mom of an elite gymnast competing in tumbling and trampoline. THIS SET MY SOUL ON FIRE. Not only have you outed yourself as sexist, but you have outed yourself as a pervert, sir.
She’s also cruel. The business model of America’s Next Top Model was to take a bunch of desperate and unworldly girls who were realistically never going to make it as high fashion models, and then oversell them on an impossible dream in order to manipulate them into accepting being tortured and humiliated on TV. The…
Toni Van Pelt… deemed the bill an “extreme threat to women and girls” and claimed sex work was “the most extreme version of the violent oppression of women.”
Hard oof.
She called it “Harry Potter meets the modeling industry” and also “Disney meets fashion, beauty, and self-esteem.”
It’s a tough mental shift for a movement that has leaders that fought against porn 30 years ago. Hopefully NOW will listen to local chapters and respect that sex workers have agency.