Reply #40: I have not made any jokes about Boyle herself

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Only the people elevating this whole reality show ruckus to something sublime and beautiful.

If we are going to over-analyze the Boyle thing (i.e. see it as something other than a clever marketing stunt by that British show), then my analysis is this:
Only someone who bought into that whole worldview in the first place could be so bowled over by it.
And therein lies something that I think is fundamentally wrong with our society. Apparently it is ok to like this person now that some random people watching some dumb reality show said it is ok.

I have worked with so many women scientists, engineers and MDs who are certainly not anywhere near the societal ideal of beauty and yet nobody would ever have dream of having anything but respect for these women. I think you have to first buy into the beauty myth to find any of this as revealing and amazing as some seem to think of it.

Way I look at it, what if she hadn't had an awesome voice? Would it be ok to make fun of her then?
The message I am getting here is that "Oh look she had an amazing voice after all."

BS...Amazing voice or not, no one should allow people like Simon Cowell or the kind of brain-dead, beauty-obsessed idiots that watch reality shows, define them. There are lots of people like Susan Boyle out there who don't have amazing voices and they are fine too, whether some DUMB reality show (God I despise reality shows) validated them or not.

You watch too much tv, you are eventually going to buy into that dumbass worldview and then turn on it when the teevee tells you to. It is so fucking stupid...
They set up a standard and then they destroy it. Whatever they do, they'll make money and people will blindly go along. I wish more people would think for themselves.