The Mind Lounge

Not happy with your looks ? Ask Tyra !

I've been checkin out the idiot box just now . I found myself an interesting show , it was a Tyra Banks show ..no , its not Next Top Model featuring my future-wife Naima 'grins' . Its another show , more Oprah-like . I believe its a show where insecure, teenage american girls discuss their insecurities with non other than Tyra Banks .

The reason I was glued to this was that theres this one pretty chick in it . This chick , with her eyes all swollen from crying , tells the audience and Tyra that she thinks she is ugly and fat . I got a shock man.. I was like , "you cannot be serious" . This girl was pretty . And seems like on every show , these 'guests' would have to draw a self-portrait of them on a piece of blackboard and show it to the audience . And on the blackboard , they would point areas which they think looks ugly about them ...."nose too big"... "ears not balanced"... ridiculous stuffs .

And the objective of the show is to help these teens overcome their insecurities by having therapist on the show to give them help . Noble , of course . But I guess shows like these could only work over there you know . I don't think Malaysian girls would really have the guts to come on the show like that . Takes a lot of courage . You gotta understand , its a different environment altogether over there in the States . Their teens are not like Malaysian teens (though some tries so hard to be American) . Over there , you get dissed for looking ugly .

Consider us Malaysians blessed that we don't have a cruel society to that extent . We can be quite cruel , but not that cruel .

Sensitive issue indeed when it comes to looks . But I guess the show would make a good job telling teenagers nowadays not to obsessed with looks too much to the extent of endangering your health . We all have flaws that we just wish we could get rid of . But from observation , looks can be compromised whereas personality and heart undergo more tedious 'tests' .


Heres hoping for a not-so self concious society in the future ....