proof that I need sleep

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When Tim Gunn starts ranting about the slobification of America, I think to myself, "wow, why hasn't anyone written some awful fic about him being Snape's second cousin?"

I had two and a half hours of sleep last night. Ugh.

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I have so many mixed feelings about Tim

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and I've realized that it's why I've had trouble watching him.
He behaved badly about a particular model one season and it freaked me out.
Then I was upset with him about how he behaved with regard to the mother of a contestant last season.
He seemed to often to behave as if he didn't have as much of a hand in what was happening on the show as he did.
The final straw was a CNN interview he did with Heidi and Larry King, where again he offended me about women and weight issues.
He's also offended me because he's had a very narrow and New York idea of what good fashion should look like and has rejected a lot of good work because he was so closed-minded, and once he rejected it, it continued on the show.
He was rejecting the rich and varied culture of Americans, and doing it by rejecting those cultural indicators with a classist attitude.
If he had been talking about sloppiness, I might have been for it, but it was clearly more like snobbiness and it was the last straw.
Anyhow, I had to get that off my chest. Thanks.

Re: I have so many mixed feelings about Tim

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I agree about the mixed feelings.

I actually have met Wendy Pepper--I watched the finale of Season 1 of PR at her home/studio. She had a lot to say. Earlier that week, Tim had said some really mean things about her. When we asked her about it, she basically said that his attitude toward her between the taping and the showing had done a 180. Essentially once the editing happened, he started treating her as if she really were the way the editing made her out to be.

(By the way, she's a lovely woman, and at the time had some spectacular stuff going on in her studio. People tend to forget that she did win 2 of the challenges.)

I do like Tim's idea of the basics, because I think that we do tend to get away from the basics. But I really really detest what they have been doing to women with regard to the underwear issue. As for dresses? I do think that dresses should be worn more! But I also think that there needs to be a better answer for women who are proportioned differently than standard!fashion! thinks they should be.

I did not watch last night's episode, though I have it taped. I could see where it was going though. As a mom of a 1 year old, *I* wear capris and t-shirts. I'm not proud. I'm 5'3" with long legs and a short top that is mostly breasts. And I'm not going to go crawling around the grass in a dress. AND I'm not going to wear long pants in the summer. And shorts are right out.

Hey, maybe I *AM* a candidate for this show, but truthfully, I'm probably more of a candidate for What Not to Wear.