Comments on: Jessica Simpson’s new reality show will focus on what women do for beauty

By: ChristinaT

ChristinaT — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:04:28 +0000

i think this is a good idea… maybe a different host with a better ability to provide deeper commentary would be nice… however, i find the concept interesting. it’ll put some much needed perspective on how subjective beauty is…

justV, do you remember the list of side effects? browing of the skin and iris, itchy red eyes, etc etc… ahhh, the price we pay for beauty… well someone else pays for it, i choose not to participate :-p

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By: JustV

JustV — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:36:10 +0000

I agree with Aspen. I definitely like the concept and believe that it is way overdo. They could do at least two seasons of the show just dealing with the issues that American women face vis a vis ‘beauty’. Just today I saw a commercial for a prescription drug!!!! to help make women’s eyelashes grow! WTF!! Don’t we put enough chemical in/on our bodies for the sake of beauty without extending this to a prescription for longer lashes. Sheesh!! I just wish that for such a heavy and necessary topic that they would have a serious investigative journalist carrying the show. We don’t need the major injustices dumbed down for ratings sake or for anyone to attempt to make light of what is going on. Women all around the world need to have an understanding of the health implications of what they could be doing to themselves, especially young girls.

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By: boomchakaboom

boomchakaboom — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:59:58 +0000

Poooor J. Simp. Doesn’t she know there is already a Bridget on the air who loves to show us all the “sexiest beaches” in the world? Nobody is going to care about J.Simp’s pathetic attempt to, what is it again? Something something something beauty? What, was Octo-mom too busy or something?

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By: Magsy

Magsy — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:54:46 +0000

Why does she always look like she has a buzz on?

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By: Aspen

Aspen — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:23:24 +0000

I would totally watch it. The most feminist belief I hold is my cherished disdain of how women have, throughout history, plucked, pulled, sliced, bound, and otherwise tortured themselves because men think the female body is “gross” unless we alter it for their amusement.

Our body hair is gross, but theirs is manly. Our body fluids are digusting and offensive in odor, but theirs are just “musky,” and–apparently–supposed to be considered edible. Everything natural about a woman is wrong, but everything natural about a man is sexy…in every largely-populated culture in the world.

I hate it…and I would watch this show in the hopes they championed women with it. There is a need for it, but they probably wouldn’t go the right direction with it.

I think that the day men are generally expected by the populace at large to have their testicles waxed, their penis catheterized with some sort of douching perfume apparatus, and their armpits tweezed before any woman would be assumed to find him attractive enough to sleep with…that will be the day we no longer need a reality show about how grotesque the beauty industry is to women.

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By: lindsey

lindsey — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:05:02 +0000

she’s desperate shes turning to reality tv again..hmmm nick must be laughing how desperate she has turned out to be..karma jessica is a bitch isnt it…that must be nicks sweet revenge watching her fail

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By: SixxKitty

SixxKitty — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:16:26 +0000

God, that header pic makes her look old. Hag even, if thats what love does to you, count me out!
As for the show, please don’t do it! Joe Simpson is no better than a pimp, can’t stand the man, and I too, feel for Jess, it must be horibble having Joe tell you constantly that your a failure, I bet he even says she needs to pull her weight and get with ‘suporting’ her family, creep.

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By: JaundiceMachine

JaundiceMachine — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:56:11 +0000

I think colonialism helped to reinforce the aesthetic ideals of the caste system (which was initially based on race/tribe). The British dealt mainly with the Brahmin and the Kshytriya (because they were the castes in power, you see). There’s this unspoken idea that the lighter your skin, the higher up in the caste system you are, and the better you are treated by your peers.

It’s really sad. In the big cities you see billboards everywhere for skin bleaching. (And two or three families setting up house under said billboard.) The want-ads are littered with potential brides – women of “good class“, with “fair skin/light complexion” and “good education” are high in demand.

Even our buddies who invited us to stay in their home, mentioned that a mutual friend/former model was ugly because “her skin was too dark”. (My stomach turned and my face fell. That bitch was gorgeous!)

Anyway – As much as I’d really like to kick her when she’s down, I’m actually pretty pumped for this. I think its excellent sociological fodder – so long as Jessica isn’t allowed to write/perform the narrative.

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By: Hieronymus Grexx

Hieronymus Grexx — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:42:53 +0000

Put on 40 pounds and over-use the spray tan ?

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By: t

Wed, 27 May 2009 23:44:36 +0000

Her incessant attempts at a career in show business have gone beyond tiresome to repellent. I delight in her failures.

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