Tyra Banks. Disturbing, disgusting- you name it.

Remy · #1 03-14-2008, 01:03 PM

how gracious. tyra banks has been wearing dead animals for years, now she organizes a photoshoot in a slaughterhouse with models wearing meat bikinis. now, im a vegetarian, but i can see why many people eat meat- they just get the product which is so unresembling of the creature that it was made from, so they just dont fully realize what's on their plate. but here comes mrs. banks, bringing "glamour" to lines of animal corpses... Hideous. the way she consciously, intendedly embraces death is disturbing to me...not only as an animal lover, but as ahuman being in general. i wouldnt be surprised if a photoshoot in a morgue came next.

Sarah · #2 03-14-2008, 01:24 PM

Nasty.

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#1LiddyBuckFan · #3 03-14-2008, 01:27 PM

PETA is going to have a field day!!

I'm veggie too and I'm honestly not preachy about it but...this is just beyond sick.

Remy · #4 03-14-2008, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by #1LiddyBuckFan

PETA is going to have a field day!!

i think they should just leave it alone. this session itself speaks enough. i couldnt think of a better way to show how repulsive using dead animals for fashion is. besides, the only thing you can do to mock an attention whore is refuse to pay attention.

SuzeQuze · #5 03-14-2008, 01:46 PM

Never liked her and this is just one more reason.

jannieC · #6 03-14-2008, 03:19 PM

I don't understand the purpose of this photo shoot. What the hell? Sometimes I feel like everyone is crazy.

petep9000 · #7 03-14-2008, 03:23 PM

She's a publicity hound. And to think, I felt bad for her when Perez Hilton reported she pooped herself at a NYC 'Fashion Week' event.

Sarah · #8 03-14-2008, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

And to think, I felt bad for her when Perez Hilton reported she pooped herself at a NYC 'Fashion Week' event.

I didn't hear about that.

Betsy · #9 03-14-2008, 03:26 PM

Ah, hell Tyra, why not just have a photo shoot in a morgue or some undertaker's parlor...just crawl right into the coffin...and make yourself at home.

She's one classy broad!

(And the third photo looked like Paris Hilton...was it? Maybe it was Paris's idea?)

strandinthewind · #10 03-14-2008, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

I don't understand the purpose of this photo shoot. What the hell? Sometimes I feel like everyone is crazy.

To me - the shoot is that whole artsy avante guarde thing - the women in traditionally mens' jobs and showing some jiggle. I get it and think the concept is trite. I do not think it has anything to do with fur or killing animals other than it is in a meatpacking plant. The concept could just as easily been executed in say, and auto plant. Note - these jobs are not just held my men anymore (thank goodness) - but the heavy labor aspect of them makes them considered manly.

JazmenFlowers · #11 03-14-2008, 03:49 PM

I find it greatly disturbing and disgusting. I think it's perverse.

would we hang up human corpses?

however, I find the hypocrisy interesting, even in myself, that we are outraged because we are seeing what we do to animals that we all essentially end up eating. unless you don't eat, wear or use animal products/byproducts you really have no reason to be upset. do we? isn't it just upsetting because we are slapped in the face with what we (in general) do to animals that end up on our plates? is it the out of sight, out of mind theory and this forces us to see it?

I ask simply to see how others theorize it.

ETA: I guess it could be how the animals are treated as "props" that makes it perverse. that alters my original thoughts.

HejiraNYC · #12 03-14-2008, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

I find it greatly disturbing and disgusting. I think it's perverse.

would we hang up human corpses?

however, I find the hypocrisy interesting, even in myself, that we are outraged because we are seeing what we do to animals that we all essentially end up eating. unless you don't eat, wear or use animal products/byproducts you really have no reason to be upset. do we? isn't it just upsetting because we are slapped in the face with what we (in general) do to animals that end up on our plates? is it the out of sight, out of mind theory and this forces us to see it?

I ask simply to see how others theorize it.

I think that sums it up perfectly. We are outraged, not only by the act itself, but by the very fact that we cannot reconcile our anger with our own private exploitation of animals in our daily lives (well, except me, since I don't eat or wear animals

). In a word: dissonance.