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sncreducer:

So while the message Tyra’s putting out there may be good, the messenger herself lacks credibility.

Therefore you should, what, shoot the messenger? I’d prefer to focus on the message.

As easy as it may be to go around dismissing a statement by a female model as shallow, superficial, narcissistic, self-indulgent, or whatever you please, I think that the vices of the nasty little gossip-rag men who are picking apart Tyra Banks and any other female celebrity they can sink their claws into are doing a lot more damage than whatever vices Tyra Banks might herself have. Why have Tyra Banks’s personal virtues or vices become the main topic of discussion, rather than the sort of overtly sexist malice that she’s rightfully trashing?