America’s next top model

TV programs like American next top model not only make women believe they are rich and famous while they are not, so that they would defend the interests of rich and famous women instead of their own, but they also make women believe they are dumb sex objects, always thinking about buying clothes and make up and becoming hysterical all the time for no reason. Which don’t serve their interest at all.

All throughout history men have told women: you are weak, you are dumb, you are hysterical, you are either a saint or a whore. And for this reason you have to work for us without asking money. You stay at home and work but no money for you unless we feel like giving you some. Or later, if you work, you do not very well paid jobs and obviously no politics…Women and politics? No way, this means that they could defend their interests…no…we, men are going to tell them what their interests are, which strangely correspond to the men’s ones, but men will make them think they are theirs…what kind of shared interests are those according to which men get all the power? And this has worked for centuries: women started really thinking that they were dumb, weak, irrational, emotive, superficial, and so on. Which are not very positive qualities to have if you wanted to count something. As Simone De Bouvoir once said ‘one is not born a woman, but one becomes one’, as to say ‘one is not born a dumb sex object like in next American top-model, but one becomes one as one watches too much TV. And this is the new trend…if all women dress like this or act stupid like this then there is no chance anyone is going to take them seriously…or vote for them in an election which is not America’s next top model. If they think only about their bodies then it is not good for the brain...

But nowadays women have the opportunity to have good jobs and take responsibilities and be politicians…but still they have to show very masculine characteristics to be successful, like being rational…so rational that in order to make money or get power you don’t care about anything…because emotions, feeling that some things are not quite fair,…no…they mean weakness…
So nothing has changed in the end. Only that some women are conforming themselves to the features men assign to them, others pretend to be men, and nothing changes. If all women decided to be as rational (i.e. no scruples at all) as men are supposed to be then the world would end sooner.

There should not be any dualism at all and feeling something …pity maybe…the voice of your conscience maybe…should not be considered a sign of weakness or something irrational but a sign of great honor, just like Homer teaches us at the end of the Iliad, when Achilles shows pity for the first time… an emotion… and only then he becomes a real hero.