I just…don’t really know what to say about Ugly Betty, except that the very title of the show is appalling.
ABC’s hook for the show is “In the superficial world of high fashion, image is everything. Styles come and go and the only constants are wafer-thin beauties who wear it. Where could a girl who is less than pretty and a little bit pudgy possibly fit in?”
Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks this show’s creation was just a really bad idea. Maybe it’ll be a good satirical look at the shallow nature of the fashion industry. Somehow, I doubt it.
And I’m left wondering why they assume Betty would want to fit into the superficial world in which she’s thrown.
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If you actually follow the dialogue in the first airing, Betty says that she’s not interested in the fashion mag itself, but wants to work for the Meade publishing conglomerate— she’s knows its a foot in the door, en route to a more journalistic career. You don’t have to want to be part of a particular milieu, to feel lousy if they despise you. Betty doesn’t aspire to being a fashonista, she just wants to be appreciated for the work and talent she has—perhaps naively, she feels her looks shouldn’t matter, bless her little heart. I like the show. It shows a kind of genuine sweetness you don’t see much anymore,among all the police procedural dramas and American Idol/Next Top Model Darwinian freak-shows—you’d think America was completely peopled by sociopaths, if you followed most prime-time TV.
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people, people, please it is a show, it is fantasy, forget about stereotypes, making a big thing about putting races competing against each other…it is a comedy can you see is funny…. ugly betty is not a role model or a model for that matter, that makes it funny..watch it and enjoy, betty la fea, or ugly betty is going to be the show to watch this fall.
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That logic reminds me of Just SHoot Me again – that Mya, this attractive-but-not-a-stunner feminist, went to work for her dad’s fashion magzine because she was broke. Yeah, the initial explaination worked, but why then did she stay year after year when she was obvious so against what it stood for? Couldn’t she just have found another job? Or sis she secretly want to be part of that superficial world, despite her protests?
I can see them taking a similar concept – starting anywhere to get a foothold in journalism – and completely screweing up the logic for the sake of a plain jane feminist gag.
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