11.23.2008



Oh Tyra, you so crazy. It just never stops. Her compulsive need to just BE HERSELF makes me slightly jealous, I'll admit. By the age of 24, I carefully learned that some behaviour, albeit fun, needs to either stop or evolve into something more appropriate. Things like, taking off your pants in public or wearing hawaiian shirts. See, Tyra still merrily takes her pants off, and then suggests that young girls do the same. It goes beyond just BEING YOURSELF. There's being yourself, which for me involves short periods of time where I stop myself from saying sorry when strangers bump into me. Or by politely informing telemarketers that no, Jennifer Phillips isn't home right now, but I would be more than happy to pass along the special information on a new long distance service in her area. Tyra's need to 'be herself' has elicited many strange things in the past 10 cycles of America's Next Top Model. After repeated, unabashed critiques (see photo above), these young girls often scream hysterically in Tyra's presence, especially when she gestures emphatically towards her cleavage and refers to them as "her babies." Tyra has turned me into a believer that Stockholm Syndrome is in fact possible on a larger scale. Her behaviour is more akin to vomiting into a jar a few times in a row, and then serving that drink to your friends, and ignoring them when they tell you it's horrible and they want to go home, and then opening up vomit stands in select locations where your friends just might happen to walk by. That's what Tyra does to me every Wednesday night.

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