{"id":87614145,"date":"2007-02-20T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T07:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614145"},"modified":"2007-02-20T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T07:02:58","slug":"i-dont-need-to-watch-tyra-any-more-cheeseblog-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614145","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t need to watch Tyra any more&#8230;  Cheeseblog is better."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go over to Cheeseblog and read the rant about Tyra, America&#8217;s Next Top Model, weight-myth, beauty-myth, and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And if you&rsquo;re not going to do that, then just stop. Stop telling me what beauty is and isn&rsquo;t. Stop telling me it exists as something that can be defined, held up for examination, emulated. Stop thinking I am so stupid as to buy this kind of lip gloss because your definition of beautiful girl is wearing that lip gloss and if I buy it I can be beautiful LIKE HER or, even better, beautiful LIKE ME, unique, because I am wearing the lip gloss that makes unique girls uniquely beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Stop telling us it&rsquo;s okay to not be perfect when the definition of perfect is based on sales and marketing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So go over there and <a href=\"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=778\" target=\"_blank\">read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go over to Cheeseblog and read the rant about Tyra, America&#8217;s Next Top Model, weight-myth, beauty-myth, and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. And if you&rsquo;re not going to do that, then just stop. Stop telling me what beauty is and isn&rsquo;t. Stop telling me it exists as something that can be defined, held up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}