So far, Tyra has donned a male "body suit" in order to infiltrate a rap band (which became complicated when a female groupie tried to make out with Tyra, thinking she was a new male member of the band); she's donned a "fatsuit" to explore the world as a discriminated obese person (who would have thought Today Tonight was so ahead of itself?), which was no doubt supposedly ironic, but on one of the figures who perpetuated the beauty myth and helped create the social malaise of female body anxiety, was just hypocrisy; and the day after the Mark Foley scandal broke in the US, she aired a special about child stars, and proceeded in asking them about their sex lives and telling one 14 year old that she was attracted to him.

 

But my favourite is the following footage, where Banks continues her path down hypocrisy - a path I'd imagine is laid with the guilt of a washed-up, coked-out ex-supermodel, who faced the realisation that her career was over by rejecting the entire industry and culture, and trying to fool us that she was somehow driven by "helping" young women break the beauty myth. She has recently campaigned against what she calls "Cosmetic fantasies", where she endeavours to strip the public mindset of the propagandist illusions of cosmetics companies. It all sounds rather cool, from one angle. But Banks, in "exposing" the beauty "reality", has done so under a series of cross-promotion deals with companies such as Vaseline. Below is a segment of one of Tyra's zealously "revelational" beauty tips, where she delivers unto the world the secret of womankind, and I simply had to share it with you, because after the topics we've discussed lately, we needed a good laugh (but as you'll see, it still fits nicely with a running motif of truly bizarre media manifestations). May you enjoy it as much as I did. God bless America.