#9

I'm quite perplexed by the show True Beauty. 

While I agree that beauty is inside and out the idea is that you'll find the most beautiful person, inside and out, via challenges that seem only based on outer beauty while secretly filming to catch the beauties being bad or not.  The thing is, you could be a total dbag / bizzo and win every challenge by being beautiful on the outside and then never be in the bottom two where your elimination is based on your inner beauty / lack thereof.  So it's not really TRUE beauty if "true beauty comes from within" as is the tagline every week.

Case in point: Joel is gorgeous- seriously, it's almost unfair that God makes some people look like him and then others look so the opposite of him.  I recognize that my bias is because I live in a culture that deifies physical beauty, but the point is that Joel is incredibly physically attractive.  That said... he's a complete dbag!  Anytime I feel drawn to him based on his outer beauty his consistent tendency to be completely self-absorbed, critical, and downright rude to other people repulses me.  His "macho" persona is the opposite of attractive- it's bona fide ugly.

Yet... he stayed on the show because he kept his anger in check and curtly said something like "It's ok, bro" when "accidentally" sprayed by a gardener (it was staged and secretly taped for those who don't watch the show).  He's been so rude on so many occasions and while Chelsea has also had her moments she has been honest and tried to be real about who she is.

In sum, I see that, while it's an interesting concept, the fact is that we are all sinners and have a lot of ugliness inside of us.  Some of us keep it in check better than others, but the idea that some magical humans are just wonderful people with no ugliness inside (or at least very little) is a dirty lie straight from Satan.  It perpetuates the idea that if we're nice and kind then we really matter (and, of course, on this show you have to be hot as well) but the truth is we're all ugly inside and only Jesus is beautiful and only Jesus shining through us is beautiful.

This is long, so 'nuff said.