Every now and then Fox passes off a segment as “news analysis” so stupid that it can't be overlooked. That's the category that today's debate about Kaley Cuoco's breast implants falls under.
Personally, I don't care at all about Kaley Cuoco, much less whether or not she made the right decision in getting breast implants at 18. But, believe it or not, the Outnumbered show spent nearly 4 minutes analyzing her choice.
Co-host Kennedy worried that teenage girls will see Cuoco as a role model “crediting it to her boobs.”
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt disagreed. “It made her feel much better about herself....I totally get it,” Earhardt said.
“I love that she's talking about it,” co-host Dagen McDowell said.
Co-host Jedediah Bila was concerned that Cuoco's boobs are “what gave her confidence.” Bila worried that young girls would learn that “you have to change something physical” instead of learning to love yourself.
But McDowell said that if you're uncomfortable with your appearance, “you can't be your strongest self.”
All this, as Fox posed the all-important question, “Is bigger better?” on a graphic that took over the screen.
You can watch the whole thing below, if you care.
But whether you do or don't, please have a happy, healthy New Year, everybody!
Correction: This post originally misspelled Cuoco's first name as "Kelly."
That said, Cuoco’s actually a really sweet, decent person, with a lot of emotional and intellectual depth. If you read or watch any of her interviews where she talks about feminism, her views are that she was raised to believe in gender roles, but those are her beliefs. She knows it’s not right for every woman, that there are times when it the roles should cross over, and she won’t condemn another woman for not believing in a more equal distribution of household roles.
Compare that to another BBT star, Mayim Balik, who foxnews.com praised fairly regularly for being strongly in line with their views about women, including that she trashed the movie “Frozen” as “pro-lesbian trash” on her blog, and said parents should discourage their daughters from liking Elsa. Or any of the right wing actresses and country singers their writers seem to be in love with, because they’re so unabashedly anti-woman.
Could it be that Cuoco’s under scrutiny because she’s middle of the road on this, and they want to shame her to their side?
And regarding the implants themselves, she’s also said that the reason she got them was that her hips filled out, but her bust didn’t, and it gave her extremely odd porportions. She got them to even out her figure, and she doesn’t regret them. In fact, she thinks they’re one of her best decisions, because it’s allowed her to turn the tables on sexist casting, by getting in on what they want, then making herself hard to replace on what we want. Remember when BBT was new, and one of their selling points was that she was pretty girl with big boobs? She turned the tables on that fast.
But god forbid Fox News talk about any of that in a genuinely fair context. It detracts from them either dwelling on her boobies, or shaming her for not going far enough in sharing their views.
Oh, Happy New Year to everyone here.
I’m at the age where I don’t recognize the vast majority of the names or faces on the magazine covers at the supermarket checkout line, never mind care why they’re splitting up, getting together, yada, yada, yada.
Most likely the ladies at Fox have clauses in their contacts that tells them they must maintain their weight at a certain level and other rules on their appearance that doesn’t apply to the men. Bill and Sean are proof of that.
Merry New Year to all of you.
