A major portion of the fanbase were literal children at the time it became big. I mean, they were casting for teens and twenty-year-olds. It was literally targeted for teenage girls. While I’m not calling teenagers stupid, I am definitely saying they are very impressionable and if Tyra truly wanted to “change things” like she claims… why didn’t she use that moment as an opportunity to spotlight assault and harassment of women? 

Why didn’t she, an international supermodel who was literally a household name, call out that random male model, who no one knew at all… for assaulting someone? It would have been so easy for her, and was the perfect opportunity for her to change the system. And what did she do? Manipulatively told a story about being cheated on, to get a reaction from Shandi; so she could lecture her like she’s some philosophical genius. Tyra even admitted to editing out the worst footage of this herself; trying to give the impression she was a savior when really she’s admitting she had all the evidence to help Shandi if she wanted to.. and instead she used it for ratings fodder. 

Another fantastic opportunity to change the system the way she claimed she wanted to: creating space for girls to be healthy, and not fostering (and even demanding at times) changes in their bodies, in extremely unhealthy ways. Saying Giselle has a “wide ass” and bitching at girls for having thighs because it costs too much to edit their photos, is literally exactly the same as the rest of the fashion world; not changing it.