Monday, March 2, 2009

the allure of the exotic

So, there is this show that my fiancee and I like to watch together, (well actually he just watches it and I sit with him and stew a bit). Why do I stew? There are two anchors of this show, a girl and a guy. Let's call them Kev and Ol. Ol is the girl and she really irks me. I don't usually bring out the irk factor but this chick irks me to the nth degree. My fiancee was wondering why she bothers me so much and I couldn't quite figure it out, offhand, so I went on IMDB and looked her up. I was curious what this girl's background was.
I was right . .. there's not much there. She is a model who got hooked up with this random tv network that is small and kind of geeky because she's half-Asian and she is interested in Asian gaming, or at least she has some knowledge of it. They are like "HELL YES, THIS GIRL IS SO HOT, I DON'T EVEN CARE WHAT GARBAGE COMES OUT OF HER MOUTH SHE LOOKS SOOO GOOD, AND SHE'S PART ASIAN, THAT'S EVEN HOTTER!"
Yeah, funny thing how that Asian thing just brought it up a notch.
Ridiculous.
But guys like those "exotic" women. A Jew from New York? Feh. A Christian from Connecticut? Yawn.
It's funny, she's not horrible, or a horrific actress, I think it's just one of those situations where a girl is admired, adored, and even respected by men on the basis of her looks, and I resent that. Don't we have to work for our successes in life? The women who were just handed beauty at birth don't have even a tiny idea of what it is like to work for success, or for anything for that matter. I don't envy these women for that. I mean when their beauty is gone they have nothing. I guess it's just a reflection on my insecurity about looks and such. Or maybe I'm just annoyed at the idea that I know people who would be amazing on television, but this girl gets in based on looks and lineage.
In the end it doesn't really matter, she will continue her career, as will I. We all have to make our own lives wonderful, and be proactive, and I'm sure in her own way, she does that.
Even if she has the television personality of a wet noodle. . .