It’s human nature. We worship at the shrine of beauty, no matter what the neighbourhood looks like! You can be quirky (Barbra Streisand & Cher in the 60′s come to mind) as long as you’re beautiful. You can be ethnic (Barbra Streisand and Cher come to mind again, gay much?) as long as you’re beautful. You may only be loved by gay men ( Barbra Streisand and…hey…maybe Babs and Cher ARE the only exception to the rule!). The point is…pretty is best! That said, we still love an underdog. Even when they look like one! At first that is, but once that love and attention starts pouring in, Pretty Up!
Take Susan Boyle for instance. That sad little potato who’d never been kissed. That Brillo pad with ears who recently revealed she was picked on for being ugly as a girl revisited that pain when she stuck her head up over the wall on Britian’s Got Talent and sang with more beauty than anyone one person could possibly possess! It was the truest example of “overnight sensation” humanity’s ever witnessed. Yet in spite of this normal person doing an extraordinary thing, she was quickly raked over the coals for having a face that Sharon Osborne said looked like a slapped arse…and she’d know! Her arse was good and slapped a few times before she prettied up herself!
Well rest assured all you judgey bitches, Miss Boyle’s prettied up and then some! So much so that her “international schedule” is growing at a geometric rate and she’s had to postpone her upcoming Toronto performance. Hey, when you’re this pretty, they’ll wait!
I love you Susan!
xox
