I just heard about the Victoria’s Secret fashion show (before you get snarky I followed a link about Sting, OK? As if that wasn’t embarassing enough!).
So I’m looking at Sting hanging out with a bunch of women striking poses and I’m thinking, “As if the entire concept of ‘fashion’ wasn’t revolting enough the world has apparently developed a fixation on these women (and to a lesser extent men) that makes them famous and wealthy. Agh!”
Really, the goal of a fashion model is largely the same as most women’s magazines: promote self-dissatisfaction in the hearts of everyday women.
That, and look good in clothes no one in their right mind would wear (well, maybe Grace Jones circa 1984).
OK, I realize that ‘societal utility’ should not be a criterion for whether a job is worthy or not but good God, people!
Wow, I think you’re right. It’s the most worthless reason possible for being wealthy. When I first read the OP, I thought, no, surely something is more useless than being a fashion model. But try as I might, I could think of nothing.
Pretty worthless, sure. But I still vote for telemarketer.
Certainly, it’s not a job that correlates with wealth, but I drive it upwards because I’ve never had fashion models demand the right to use my home for a show.
. . . I could say, “priest, nun, rabbi or iman,” since this is the Pit . . . But I’m not entirely sure if an “iman” is an Islamic holy man or David Bowie’s fashion-model wife, and that gets us right back to the OP . . .
P.S. If it makes you happy, all the fashion models I have ever met (and, being in magazine publishing, I’ve met a fair amount), are bitter, uneducated, scared, self-conscious and fully aware that their professional life is over when they hit 26 and/or 115 pounds.
Remember, for every Supermodel there’s 100 showroom or catalog models who make a crappy salary for a short period of time and are never allowed to eat.
Not sure if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me, here. What I’m saying is that, to a certain extent, I feel sorry for these girls (most of them are not “women”). They know their market value is solely based on their appearance, which will vanish when they hit Model Old Age (mid-20s); they were yanked out of school and have few job skills; they know most of the people who work with them look down on them . . . Yeah, some of the lucky ones live the high life for half-a-dozen years and if they’re smart they invest and save theuir money.
But for 90% of the profession, modeling is a brief, unhappy off-ramp to professional suicide.
When I originally wrote the thread title I wrote ‘Is the a more worthless group of people than fashion models?’ or somesuch. But I backed off and changed that because I couldn’t actively slam the models themselves…it’s the profession that’s pointless, not the people.
Call me an optimist but I generally think no human being is worthless.
As you think about it long and hard there are many jobs you could find pointless but then you realize they do have a point just a rather small one. I think modeling is the dumbest profession ever, people want to buy the look but no average girl can buy that look when they don’t have that body. Models are all skinny which sure as hell makes the normal sized girls feel like bloated rhinos. I wish i could get paid to walk around in expensive clothes…
