In episode two, Carrie contemplates; “If models could cause otherwise rational individuals to crumble in their presence, exactly how powerful was beauty?” I just have to say that I love watching this episode, because in the nineties models were on the covers of magazines. Now good looking actresses and actors dominate the covers, reality stars are walking the runways of fashion week, and the models are stuck judging reality shows that all women obsess over.
In the 90’s it seems like men obsessed over models. The women they deemed worthy enough to have calendars of were not the Scarlett Johanssons, Paris Hiltons or Kim Khardasian’s of this generation. I feel sorry for the younger generation that will never know what it was like to have a Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Elle MacPherson, Tyra Banks, or Claudia Schiffer on the covers of their magazines.
Personally, when I am in a room with a beautiful person, I can’t stop starring at them. There is something about beauty. It can be absolutely breathtaking, beauty can leave you speechless. Whether it is a beautiful man or woman, the way they look is a very powerful thing. Beautiful people usually know how powerful they are, so they try to use it to their advantage. Being beautiful is like having an American Express black card, you know the ones with no spending limit, you can get just about anything. To answer Ms. Bradshaw’s question, beauty is almost as powerful as having money in our very shallow society.
A male’s perspective on what is powerful in our society; “Beauty is ranked as #3 following a person’s social status (#2) and being rich as the topper (#1).
I pose my own question from this information, that I myself am shocked that I wrote; why is beauty so powerful?
Models and Mortals originally aired
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0698649/
1 comment:
Seriously! What happened to all the models? did they fall down the same hole?
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