Why, Tyra? WHY?

Okay, I’ll admit: I don’t harbor any particular fondness for Tyra Banks. Yes, I watch Top Model, and that’s a whole other post waiting to happen.

For those who don’t watch the Tyra show (or who, unlike me, don’t have a wife who keeps you abreast of stuff happening on the show), she periodically does these “undercover” exposés where she’ll live as a certain… well, let’s face it, stereotype… for a few hours or a day. She’s done a fat person - lord knows that didn’t go well - and she also did a prostitute. And what’s next?

This Thursday, Tyra

takes a first hand look at how quickly one can become homeless. She spends the day on skid row and learns how to live, sleep and eat like a homeless person.

Wow, Tyra’s really getting some street cred - she’s picking up all the terms homeless folks use like “skid row” and, well, that seems to be it. You’ll see what she sees. You’ll really know what it’s like to really, really, really be homeless. She’ll wear a head-scarf! Dirty clothes! You’ll see a crack pipe! A man in a wheelchair! A dead person! The horrors!

As Angel La over at Concrete Loop says, this looks like a shot from Top Model - they could have just put it in with the model stereotypes: bulimic model, wannabe actress model, homeless model!

Seriously, every time I think well, at least she can only go up from here, she does something to keep her just consistently loathsome. I imagine she’ll have a few pitiable homeless/poor people on, just like she had fat chicks on to comfort her when she as distraught.