She must be doing something right.

Oh, wait, OH MY!

Nevermind!

/he had better study Gossip Girl

Isis will be just another beuatiful woman.... and no longer as newsworthy

it is all about the hype, folks, all about the hype

Of course Isis is there because she's drama, but what she also is (hopefully) is Jodie Dallas.

Jodie Dallas for those who don't know was a character played by Billy Chrystal in the 1970's series SOAP.

Jodie was an openly gay man, and was for many the first gay person they ever really knew.

There are a lot of issues that people could dredge up with Jodie (his own failed daliance with gender identity for example, and his bouts of heterosexuality) but beyond that you have a person who was a real representation of the struggles and predjudices that gay men encounter. Far from being a butt of jokes, Jodie often came off as being the most sane of his entire family.

Isis, if she is not just played for laughs, if Tyra does edit this for drama, will be the first transgendered person that many Americans will ever know, and in that, even though she is a gimmick, even though she has not a snowball's chance in tahiti of winning, she will have done more for the transgendered community than most anyone has done to date.

Of course if it's all dragqueen, fabulous, and jokey, then just put it up as another gag, sound and fury accomplishing nothing.

I don't watch top model (nor any reality shows) so I'll just have to wait for the Broadsheet play by play to find out if this is a story that will change lives.

I think the show is out to prove a point lately, that it gives “different” girls a chance to break into the industry. Yes, Whitney was/is gorgeous, very modelicious, but I don't think a plus size girl could have won in the earlier "cycles" (Walgreens-girl Shandi was as close as they got to stepping out of the model box, and even she is very couture).

That said, I'm all for opening up the ranks to some non-traditional women. It helps that Isis has an interesting face and a gorgeous slim body which many designers would die to hang their clothes on. She looks androgynous (read: vaguely male) in person but photographs beautifully. Face it, she's hot.

Still, it was funny when Nigel, during their one-on-one, noted that there was something strange about her that he couldn't figure out; and the expression on his face during the judge's panel, when he learned that she's biologically male, was priceless. :)

"On one level, the haters have a point. Now that someone born a man can become a wo-man, it seems to damage women's rights for such a person to claim a spot presumably belonging to a biological female."

What's actually damaging to women's rights is transphobia. Over 4 years ago there was a Vagina Monologues put on with an all-transwoman cast; and they were all women, not

wo-men." Perhaps this is an example of the line of thinking that removed protection for transpeople from the ENDA.

If you think Isis could actually win ask yourself, "Is Cover Girl ready for a pre-op transexual to hawk their makeup?" The answer is pretty obvious.

So, she has absolutely zero chance of winning, but maybe the show will somehow help her and her career. I hope so.

South Carolina belle Clark goes further, suggesting that difference naturally invites violence: "You walk around in a small town like that, and you'll get shot," she drawls, careful to garnish her prejudice with a dollop of B.S. "It's not so much a closed-minded view, it's just more traditional."

Killing people because they're different is traditional in the south.

So is enslaving people.

They're such lovely people, aren't they?

I'm sorry, I went straight for the ridiculous. A platypus doing fierce runway? It will be awhile before I get that scenario out of my imagination.

In the north, west and east no one kills anyone.

Those bpeople in the south are such brutes.

We should toss them out of the Union.

In the north, west and east no one kills anyone.

Those people in the south are such brutes.

We should toss them out of the Union.

Just as the African girl who'd been a victim of genital mutilation last season was. Nearly every season had one plus size woman, now that Whitney won, no more plus sizes.

Now it's transgender and vegan bi sexuals. Tyra loves her causes, so it's been green environments, no smoking, now this.

Isis will do well, but will not win. I think she'll make it to the top 4 becasue she does understand photography but Cover Girl and Seventeen magazine are not going to put a transexual out as their spokesperson. If people are cancelling subscriptions to US Weekly because they weren't nice to Sarah Palin, people are going to flip out if someone born a man is put on the cover of Seventeen or put in Cover Girl ads. I can't recall but I think All My Children was smacked hard when they had a transgender storyline. They got rid of their one lesbian character, they magically reversed Erika Kane's abortion. Bottom lines are what matter and middle america and the south simply aren't ready for the man to woman transition. Plus I do find it sad that the English Major could not name a literary heroin, nor had read friggen Jack London. We didn't study that she says, wow way to express passion, only read what you are told dipshit?

Also, what is up with these stupid girls who've seen ANTM at least once or twice before and can't name a designer or working model?

I hope little miss I'm so pretty from the south gets canned in the next cycle and I think the girl from Alaska just needs some life experience, she grew up without indoor plumbing and I think electricity, I'm going to cut her a little slack on being shocked at a transgendered person, at least she didn't suggest murder for being different.

Plus I doubt that Tyra Banks makes more money than Judge Judy or Oprah. Judge Judy is the top daytime female earner.