I've become Ugle Betty Obsessed....
Was finally able to watch the end of Season 1 (thank you Netflix) and the episodes from Season 2 that our trusty DVR has been dutifully saving. I still can't believe all of the plot twists they were able to cram in to one season - turns out there only in Season 2 now.... its a little ridiculous, but I'm hooked nonetheless.....
I read a fabulous feminist webpage (www.feministing.com) and was shocked to see that Ugly Betty/America Ferrera was a topic. Here's this show that gets all these accolades about having a "real" female lead, and then Glamour goes and photoshops the crap out of her. She doesn't even look healthy in the photo-shopped version. AND, to steal one of the comments written on the subject: "Isn’t it ironic that the 2nd episode in Season 1 of "Ugly Betty" centered around her encouraging a star to forgo the Photoshop in a shoot and now here she is on a magazine cover with her body shrunk?" Shame, shame!!
