Comments on Womanist Musings: Britain's Top Model Goes Tribal

I can't say I'm surprised, based on some of the st...

2008-08-07T15:29:42.077-04:00

I can't say I'm surprised, based on some of the stuff they do on the various top model shows. I am grossed out though.

Interestingly, it would be a much stronger image if it were the model alone, with nothing in the background. Then it would be all about the diagonal lines that her body is making and her facial expression....

Seriously? Black folks dressed in tribal gear? Seriously? blech...

Yuck. Nothing like another heavy dose of coloniali...

2008-08-06T16:26:01.138-04:00

Yuck. Nothing like another heavy dose of colonialism in a photo shoot to make you lose your lunch. ><

every time my citizen-of-the-US-self-esteem plumme...

2008-08-06T12:27:07.872-04:00

every time my citizen-of-the-US-self-esteem plummets, as it has over the last eight years, i see something like this shit and remember that every country has its active douchbaggery and this is proof of it.

Thanks for making me sick this morning.

2008-08-06T11:33:20.932-04:00

Thanks for making me sick this morning.

Usually they show a white model dressed in white, ...

2008-08-06T11:19:22.956-04:00

Usually they show a white model dressed in white, pale clothes with little black children in the background photographed in some hot "exotic" locale. I guess they got bored with that theme.