Shame on Oprah!

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(thanks for the lead, Tina!)

For shame Oprah, for shame. I mean, really. An episode called "Does My Butt Look Big?"

Of all the segments and initiatives you've had teaching women to love and celebrate and maximize their bodies, you title a segment encouraging women to question what they've got from the rear-view?

"My Butt Looks Big!" declares celebration and acceptance.
"Does My Butt Look Big?" proclaims uncertainty, identifies "big" as negative and overall mocks the progress of women's body acceptance in our twisted society.

Here I am making a film about Maximizing a gal's Assets, and one of the most powerful women in American media is asking us to Question them!!

To be fair, I haven't watched the episode, only a few short clips online. But why, oh, why do we insist on being a society that HIDES rather than FLAUNTS. And even if the message is to all the women who don't dress appropriate for their shape, at least cloak it in a more celebratory title with kind hints like how to wear pants in your actual size!

Had I been a faithful Oprah-watcher, this would have hit me a lot harder. I imagine that I would feel really betrayed. But fortunately, I have never really understood the obsession with Oprah's show and can count on one hand the number of episodes I've watched in their entirety. I do not get the appeal as she offers me nothing that I cannot get elsewhere and I do not find her all that watchable.

I hope she follows up this episode with a celebration of butts.... to show that she's a woman to explore all sides....

On second thought, no, I hope she doesn't. I want my film to be that counterattack.

And it most certainly will be.