Dammit, Janet! Was it my imagination, or did I just see Susan Sarandon on a Revlon commercial hawking some magical potion meant to erase away the years?
For the love of olay! A woman all about social justice, rabblerousing, speaking up, the celebrity poster woman for strong, political, feminist women, shilling for the Fashion Industrial Complex. Say it ain't so. I mean, she was Louise, ferchrissakes! I can't stand it.
Friends, don't let your babies grow up to be beauty industry spokesmodels. This bald-faced, cynical lie told to millions of women to part them from their hard-earned millions of dollars and keep them in a perpetual state of anxiety, inferiority, and need is a scourge upon the earth. Perpetrating the fiction that slopping some creme on one's eyelids will generate "age-defying" results should be a punishable offense, not least because it is patently false. This snakeoil will work as advertised when swine take flight, sisters. In light of this porcine premise, it's not surprising that Americans spend more on beauty per year than on education. Feh.
Once Sarandon sells out, it's over. I was so crushed to read this, I can't tell you. I'm already upset that Drew Barrymore started doing this kind of nonsense, and especially for a oompany (I forget which one) that still tests on animals.
What next, ae? Tina Turning hawking Botox?
Posted by: Diane | Sunday, 26 February 2006 at 01:56 PM
Beautiful succint rant. Thank you.
Posted by: Dharma | Monday, 27 February 2006 at 06:30 PM
Oh, Diane! I might have to permanently live under a rock in the furthest reaches of a yak-filled country if Tina Turners comes out in favor of Botox. I will just give up completely. I literally couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Susan Sarandon. Hadn't I heard her countless times decrying the pressures on women to be beautiful and bemoaning the fetishistic culture of youth in Hollywood? WHAT GIVES?? As for Drew B., it might still be possible to sway her on the question of animal cruelty. She's young enough to still get the horror and selfishness of it all. But so is Susan S.! Gaaaaah.
Thank you, Dharma. Sometimes the indignity is too much and the words come.
Posted by: ae | Tuesday, 28 February 2006 at 08:52 AM