But she breaks just like a little girl

Today I'll return to my cynical attacks on stupid shit that I see every day. Today, snowed in with nothing to do, I came across the Tyra Banks show, where she was doing a wonderful piece on a troubled woman who was living a fake life. For years, since high school, she had been hiding a birth mark above her lip with makeup. Her husband didn't even know she had a birth mark. Now, she is sobbing as her oblivious husband walks onto the stage, probably thinking his wife is having an affair or is pregnant by another man. Quickly and carefully wiping her never-ending stream of tears before they wash away her makeup and reveal her hideous brown dot.

Tyra asks the husband how they met, with his reply, "We hooked up in high school and been together ever since. I wouldn't have it any other way." Which garnered a loving "aw" from the hormonal crowd. Tyra went on to explain to this confused and nervous man that his wife, the mother of his child is hiding something from him, and has been even in high school. He looked as though he was about to ask for a brown bag to calm himself. They went on to show him baby pictures of his wife (he never saw any baby pictures of her, because they reveal her grotesque birth-mark), and he studied them for a few minutes without noticing anything. She announced, after great nervous anticipation on the husband's part, that she had a birth-mark, and the husband looked confused and aggravated. Of course I would be too, realizing that my wife is a shallow and pathetic shell of a human being, covering a mark on her face for her entire life in fear that not everyone would accept her if she didn't have perfect skin.

Marilyn Monroe had a fucking birth mark. This girl had a tiny dot above her lip, and she was very attractive. A woman from the crowd yelled out "I have a birthmark too!" And Tyra, feeling the deep emotions running through the crowd, yelled "Get that woman a mic!" To which everyone cheered and clapped as if Matthew McConaughey magically appeared on stage without a shirt on. The girl with a birthmark, a tiny dot above her lip, was crying more hysterically than the pathetic woman on stage with the dumbfounded husband, uncomfortable and completely out of his element. "I have a birthmark and you just can't live like that you have to embrace it it's who you are you can't hide it you have to embrace it, it's who you are, you have to embrace it!" She continued yelling through the loud cheers and crying women screaming and hugging one another in a sea of insecurities, "EMBRACE IT! IT'S WHO YOU ARE!"

Tyra was teary eyed and asked the woman to come on stage and comfort her fellow insecure sister in misery, and they went on to have a good cry, with the husband looking more and more bewildered and not saying a word, brow permanently tilted, just taking everything in and not completely understanding any of it.

I understand that this woman is going through a lot. When you put on a mask, literally and figuratively, in order to fit into a superficial society (i.e. girl's cliques in high school), it is not an easy thing to break free from. But all of us have moments in life where we call ourselves on our bullshit. For the lucky men and women, they realize the fake and shallow aspects of their personality early out of high school, and even that is a bit late for people to change their ways. Insecurities are alive and thriving in all of us. I don't know if Tyra is just an insecure person herself and actually did sympathize with this girl, or if she was faking it for the ratings. But to witness a mass of hormones and insecurities and confused emotions pouring out of his wife and hundreds of women in the audience and most likely countless thousands of women watching on their television sets must be a terrifying thing for this poor husband to endure.

Should this really be on television? Should we really sympathize for a woman who went to that extent to fit in with a fake group of people in high school? She was probably the insecure and self-absorbed bitch that blew half the football team and ridiculed girls who didn't wear enough makeup and go to the same extent she did to feel loved and accepted. Is this the kind of person that we should sympathize with? In Tyra's defense, maybe a few pathetic women may take this experience as an inspiration to stop stuffing their bras.

I don't know.

Baby-steps, I guess.