Making Over Reality (Re: [lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 10:28 AM -0400 7/15/03, Liza Featherstone wrote:
>I agree, the obsession with making things over on TV IS an 
>interesting one. I've watched more of the ones on the BBC channel, 
>and interestingly, the British What Not to Wear (and the home 
>decorating show too) lack this redemption component, or at least its 
>not as pronounced. The women whose wardrobes are so critiqued are 
>often (not always) defiant, resist the hosts suggestions at every 
>turn, and return to their slutty/tacky/frumpy ways after the show. 
>They say the new fashionable/tasteful/age-appropriate look was OK, 
>but it's just not for them. Often, the joke is on the style police, 
>because while they consider the woman to be a style disaster, she's 
>perfectly content with her look.

An unintended but deliciously ironic allegory of the US/UK makeover 
reality show (giving a makeover to a nation rather than an 
individual) in Iraq?  :->
-- 
Yoshie

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