Bunch of uptight ninnies.

the premise was that the women killed each other, not that they were killed by men. should make a difference in this controversy, I think.

I also thought some of the photos were really beautiful. According to these scandal-mongers, there can be no non-exploitative, dehumanizing depiction of a dead woman. I think this is inane.

what i find more annoying on ANTM is that everyone keeps calling these women "girls." They're all 18+, the show makes it very obvious that modelling is a pretty tough job (completely with really painful hairweaves) and it not as easy as it looks. These women all want to make modelling their career. Tyra Banks is all about empowerment, so how about empoweringly calling the women "women"?

Wow! So much controversy over ART?? As the female owners of www.CadaverGirls.com – we freely promote all forms of media and art in the horror genre. Most of our models focus on murder scenes – and this is of their OWN CHOICE. So, to say that women object to this – is simply untrue. We do not allow pornography or nudity – but allow the models to submit the work they have formulated, designed and orchestrated on their own. This IS art – it’s just not YOUR art.

"These are directly cribbed from the art photography of Melanie Pullen"

... which are in turn cribbed directly from the film "Eyes of Laura Mars" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/). Why do people think this is anything new?

And the photographs are terrible to boot.

The whole world does not revolve around oppressing women. In the media there is violence against everyone, more often, men. Violence against men and women are different, but you can't necessarily say men have it better: The difference is that men get killed off as one of thousands of nameless faceless henchmen. But when women get killed its extra sentimental, and yes, unlike the men, the women must look beautiful while they are dead and dying. But in the major media, women have to look beautiful no matter what they are doing. They could portray a woman standing in line at the post office, and y'know what, they'd still have to look beautiful! Does that mean they are trying to glamorize standing in line at the post office as part of some nefarious patriarchial plot?

that's the point. It's neither real murder nor real death. It is skinny young women trying to make a living like the rest of us.

Should we disallow young women to act as Shakespearean characters (who do an awful lot of killing and dying)?

I get that this is part of an industry that supposedly hurts women, but isn't that debatable? And how is the modeling/fashion industry any less guilty of harming and exploiting women than any other part of society? Really, I'd like to know.

I don't think the industry is any worse; I think it is just an easy and predictable target.

You left out the best part! They were supposed to be dead because they had been murdered by other models! As if necroporn isn't bad enough, it's catfight necroporn.

It's not just about looking dead, it's about looking murdered. I think that's what really makes this disturbing

I can't believe the EMT that says 'death is ugly' gets a red star. That's a really sad way to look at death.

Just like the annoying troll: stop feeding them with articles and watch fashion die on the vine.

...somebody did an arty fashion show. What is the world coming to?

Death and violence were made into fashion statements a long time ago. Goth is about making people look like dead vampires and punk is about making people look scary. So what else is new?

Oh good lord, I was hoping you guys would have featured this. It made my stomach turn when I turned on the TV earlier this week to see the models "glamourously" posed as murder victims and some of it made me think of domestic violence! The model strewn across the bed with strangulation marks on her neck. I was revolted!

What is wrong with you ppl here griping and tsk-tsking. You're a bunch of assholes. I, for one, don't care for this show, but me girlygirl takes a liking to it. I watch this (or rather it was on and I was in the room) and my only thought was "I wonder what else is on." There was nothing to take offense to in this, unless your a self-important twat. I did find it rather crude of them to have the young woman's whose friend had passed away take part in such an endevour, but was it offensive as reality TV. Not especially.

they're not supposed to look dead; they're supposed to look like models who are trying to look dead. everyone gets that, right?

to detail what real death looks like suggests that there is some reality that is somehow more real than what this show is doing. This show is real; people really work in the modeling industry and people really spend thousands of dollars for shoes and purses. That's their reality--you don't have to like it and Broadsheet can continue to critique it until it is blue in the face, but until there is a radical shift in our social and economic landscape, we're merely repeating the same old shtick.

I mean, you're shocked at what a *television show* called America's Next Top Model is doing? Really? Really?

Here's what I'm shocked at: Broadsheet's predictability.

I'm shocked that somebody's job is dependent upon shit like this, so they can write a few clever, yet ill-edited, paragraphs and pass that off as a career.

IF AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL WASN'T SO OUTRAGEOUS, WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING WITH YOURSELF?

Nigel's comment about the last girl:

"All the other girls managed to have some sort of spark even in this sort of morbid situation. I think I look at you in this picture, and you actually just look dead. One of the simplest things, like acting dead, can be the most challenging. The problem is that you didn't do anything. You just gave up and thought that that was being dead."

Hm. She's being criticized for ACTUALLY LOOKING DEAD in this sick charade?