We Are Family

After watching this clip (via Feministing), I have three questions:

1. Which is a bigger affront to our sense of right and wrong: Tyra Banks’ Bangs or a father who drops his daughter off at the brothel for work and hands her a giant bottle of lotion [Uggs thinks it was lube!]?

2. Is the father’s little pep talk/”we all make sacrifices”/”your mother and I have your best interests at heart” for realsies or is there a Tyra Banks in the background orchestrating the whole heartfelt scene?

3. Is TB ever going to decide whether she wants to be Jerry Springer or Oprah? I can only assume this episode falls within the “and More!” in the exhaustive (and exhausting) tagline - “Fashion, Beauty, Celebrities, Makeovers, Weight Loss, Giveaways, Tickets and More!” I wonder how Hilary Clinton feels about sharing the stage with the likes of a father-daughter pimp’n'ho team and shameless famewhores (aside: I’m sure I’m not the first to notice that these two are famous in large part because people keep buying their staged photos in order to talk about how they’re staging photos to pump up their celebrity).

But seriously. I echo Jezebel’s sentiments that this isn’t about whether sex work is a viable profession for women who freely choose it but rather the unbelievable creep factor in the father-daughter dynamic. I feel all kinds of icky after watching this guy coerce his daughter and wax her inner thighs. [And vag! - Uggs]

Tyra, I hear you are thinking of leaving Top Model in order to focus on your show. And I was so close to learning how to smile with my eyes…