Damn those Weinsteins! wrote:

Zseni wrote:

I was watching an episode of Maury the other day where the abused wives of abusive husbands were separated from their spouses for a day. The (brutish, terrible!) husbands went off with a gigantic muscled negro to learn about how it felt to be dominated, and the wives were treated to makeovers to improve their self-esteem. {Irrelevant aside: Firefox believes that "negro" is a misspelled word. Also "faggots". "Rough-n-tumble" passes without comment.} The audience loved it - to them there is nothing more reasonable than putting sadists into the hands of a sadist, and rendering up passive appeasing bodies to the gods of the salon, where they sat still for two hours, and became pretty.

Yeah, go figure, you hate beauty salons.

I hate being forced into this fucking cliche, but I bet that makeover shit does more for them than you would like to admit. Hot chicks rule, they know it, everyone knows it. Why not try to be hot, if you're a chick? Then you get to rule. Look at Naomi Campbell. She's hot, she beats the shit out of ugly chicks every single day. You never hear about some maid beating up Naomi. It can't happen.

Besides, what else are these girls going to do for ONE DAY? Take some idiotic self-defense class so next time Bubba comes home with a few in him she puts up a pathetic fight and gets beat even worse? Go work in a warehouse and pretend to be a lesbian? Sit home and watch fucking Maury all day?

I say more power to salons and getting these women out of the house and into some sort of supportive environment. At the very least, it's keeping them from making godawful documentaries about how empowered they are.