The rest of what you said makes sense, but I don't think I agree with this line here. There are some men who are men during their day to day activities, but then are drag queens at night. They are still men, and they identify so. Some are gay, some are straight, but many of them identify as male.

And then there are those who just like the feel of wearing ladies clothing at anytime, sometimes out in the open, but they are still very much male-identified. David Beckham sometimes wears pink nail polish and wears his wife's underwear, but he's still very much a manly man.

So many facets out there, it's hard to pin it down to just a few categories.

honestly, i feel that she's being use dto generate more buzz (for a show thats becoming stale) and ratings.
She seems like a decent model, but i dont think she'll be well recieved by the media. I mean, the were a bunch of christian groups that were going to boycott johnson and johnson because they owned a soap opera that feature a gay couple kissing.

I really hope this will change peoples minds, but i don't think it will. And i have a feeling that they'll be some horrible comments made within the house.

ummm...I live in Canada too and they do show ANTM here. At the exact same time as they do in the US. So I don't understand what you mean

I'm so over ANTM though. I watched the first 4-5 seasons religeousely and then it started getting lame. So for the last couple of seasons I've been watching only the first and last episodes.

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Lol yea I said this to myself too. I watched it on CityTv I think. I never watched any of the seasons except for the last one. I thought it was kind of a hoax that Whitney won. Like how many times was she in the bottom and they still kept her? And oh god her Italian commercial was AWFUL! It was so fake. But not as bad as that dumb girl's. I can't remember her name, with the white hair.

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"Arnold Palmer is...a golfer"

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^ anya. I liked anya the best. I think she was the best modelm and aside from her strange/vacant sounding voice, i liked her in person. She was herself. Whitney was so fake.

Yea Anya took good photos, but seriously what was up with her voice? I hated listening to her because it sounded like there was absolutely nothing going on upstairs.

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"Incidentally, has anyone ever done LESS to become famous? I mean, "Yay for me - I mixed two drinks together!"

"Arnold Palmer is...a golfer"

"I'm sure he has LOTS of hobbies Perry the man's a drink mogul"

I also liked Anya's look. She was THE most high-fashion girl of all the seasons. I think she'll do great in modeling without ANTM.

Off-topic: I can't see Whitney (the plus-size winner) being that successful in modeling. Her "fakeness" seems to really translate into her photos (especially her swimsuit spread in Seventeen magazine) IMO... :/

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I just talked to my Transexual friend and confirmed this for me, thanks for the correction XD.

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I can't wait for the show to start! Not too much longer!!
I read in the paper that they were coming to us in Tampa Aug 30th for casting. Which I think was odd because if they are already casting the "transgender" then I would already asume they have the rest of the cast?

^^^ Maybe it's for the next season. I guess that would mean this ISN'T the last season! Yay, beacuse my bff is going to try-out for ANTM when she turns 18.

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ANTM is getting lamer and lamer every cycle.. In first bout 5 cycles the girls reaaally wanted to win so bad, but last season it felt like they didn't even try so hard? Like those Italian CoverGirl-videos.. oh my god, they were soo bad.
And I have heard that Whitney's win could be a hoax. Dunno.
Well, still I'm going to watch cycle 11.. makeover-episode is always the best. I hope that cycle 11 would be more interesting than previous.. five cycles..

i totally agree about last season. Whitney did not look like a model at all. the people that actually looked like one, in my opinions, were Anya, Stacey Ann, and Fatima

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Whitney is a bit too "in between" to be a high fashion model or a plus sized model. But she is a very pretty girl with great bone structure. It's a shame that mid-sized models aren't more glorified since they represent the majority of women.

Anyhow, the last cycle, I thought Anya and Fatima had the best chances at success for being high fashion with their body type. The others... eh.

I really started to become disillusioned from the show when I watched Next Top Models shows franchised in different countries. Germany's is so much easier on the eyes. They actually pick usable contestants, they are not catfighting all the time, and they are scolded for bad behavior. They generally look and behave like real models. Unlike ANTM that let's the girls run amok all for the sake of good television, and they are not even groomed properly (the makeover show for starters is YUCK!)