Last night, due to my lack of cable and caring what was on, I decided to tune into this new reality series on Fox called The Swan. The premis behind the show is to take two "ugly ducklings" and turn them into beautiful "swans" to compete in some beauty pageant at the end of the season. Apparently the most dramatic change will recieve the crown and title as queen swan.
This show makes me angry for a number of reasons. First of all, they are taking perfectly normal looking people and transforming them into some cookie cutter mold of Cindy Crawford. Not everyone was made to be 100% perfect. If every woman was 5`5, weighed 115 lbs, had a set of DD's, and long wavy hair wouldn't it be boring?!?!
The other major problem with this show was the very begining when the team of life changers were pointing out each and every flaw with the particular woman that was changing her appearance. They thought the one lady needed lipo suction, a boob lift, chin implants, collegen injections....wait...what in the hell is a chin implant?!
It's not like anything was physically grotesque about any of these women in question from the get go. They claim that this show builds self esteem. This show does exactly the opposite. It weakens the value of life and all of the beautiful differences in eachother.