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Why Has Everybody turned on Alycia?

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She has a few people here who take her side because they don't like cops but it doesn't seem like anybody really likes her.

She's beautiful. Women hate her. Men may want to boink her but not hang out with her.

Karen Heller did an interesting piece in today's Philadelphia Inquirer:
In local TV, sadly, looks are everything

We know why Channel 3 hired Alycia Lane. It's because she's car-crack-up beautiful, a size 2, and the camera adores her.

All of which is fitting for her second career as a tabloid cover girl.

When defenders argue that someone is actually smart, you know that intelligence has little to do with the $700,000 salary. Read more ...
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/maga...In_local_TV__sadly__looks_are_everything.html
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As Heller points out, TV is full of middle-aged guys and a revolving set of young beauty queens. The guys stay; the bimbos come and go. She calls it "Trumpian." The Playboy Mansion is also an image that comes to mind. And TV thinks we should accept all this as serious journalism.

People who come to this board are a little different than the general public. Many of us have had to work with news princesses hired for their looks and/or to appease the EEO. One local radio PD liked to brag about hiring women to co-host with him and then complained about how he could never find women who sounded good. After a while, it seemed like he hired them because they didn't sound good. In any case, too often these women show up looking good but with a sense of entitlement, no work ethic, unqualified and a major attitude problem. Everybody else has to cover.

Like the song says, "When you're in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard." When you are a beautiful woman, it's really easy and everything gets handed to you until you over-play your hand. Then you find out how all those guys trying to score points and all the other women who seemed to orbit around you really feel.

The married men Alycia had affairs with also had beautiful wives (a few years older). Maybe Alycia will marry some rich guy and he'll cheat on her with the next TV news Barbie.
 
During my time at 5th and Market, I must say I can't tell you much about her. She lived in her own little aloof world. It was definitely a contest to see who loved themselves more her or Marc Howard. Looks like they will be on CN8 doing their own shows soon.
 
Julius Leonard Marx said:
The married men Alycia had affairs with also had beautiful wives (a few years older).
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Affairs with married men (plural)? Ummm...are you referring to Wragge, who has been seperated from his younger wife? And who would be the other 'men' you claim she had affairs with? Do tell.
 
Lou Doosh said:
She lived in her own little aloof world. It was definitely a contest to see who loved themselves more her or Marc Howard. Looks like they will be on CN8 doing their own shows soon.
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I can't speak for Marc, but Alycia will land on Fox 5/WNYW next year - you heard it here first...
 
They've 'turned' because that's what our culture seems to do. We make a bloodsport of tearing people down from the 'lofty perches' we often put them on. It's the reason Us Weekly, Access Hollywood and the like thrive. People somehow forget that public figures are people who do have problems and do make mistakes. That's not to say there aren't jerks--simply bad, horrible people--among the ranks of the famous, but we're overly quick to lump everyone who is even moderately famous into that category. Maybe Alicia Lane fits into it. I don't know--I've never met her nor known anyone who has, and I don't consider gossip to be reliable in the least.

I'm not implying that there aren't consequences to be dealt with--and I never condone celebrity status being a factor in someone getting off with a lesser consequence than the "average" person--but why we seem to delight to the extent we do is puzzling. It goes beyond making a joke or two and quickly moving on. We hang on the latest developments like the spectators waiting for the lions to do their work in ancient days.

Add to that the petty, jealous attitudes of so-called insiders, wanna-bes, has-beens and never-weres that inhabit many message boards and things go to a whole different level.
 
People have "turned" on her because most of us have met people who share a lot of the same characteristics that Alycia Lane seems to have: beauty, overconfidence, a slick personality, an air of 'I'm better than you,' and a nasty side. She represents a facet of society that we love to hate and golly gee, it's fun to see her knocked down a notch.

And, given the above, the allegations are oh-so-believable too. ::)

That's my guess as to "why."
 
BRNout said:
People have "turned" on her because most of us have met people who share a lot of the same characteristics that Alycia Lane seems to have: beauty, overconfidence, a slick personality, an air of 'I'm better than you,' and a nasty side. She represents a facet of society that we love to hate and golly gee, it's fun to see her knocked down a notch.

And, given the above, the allegations are oh-so-believable too. ::)

That's my guess as to "why."
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Interesting list of characteristics. Since when did "beauty" become a reason to hate someone? Last time I checked, all of the others are quite legitimate reasons to dislike someone, and they also are all characteristics someone chooses to have (more or less). But beauty? Big deal. She happens to have it--many people do. Hardly a reason to hate someone.
 
imhomerjay said:
Interesting list of characteristics. Since when did "beauty" become a reason to hate someone? Last time I checked, all of the others are quite legitimate reasons to dislike someone, and they also are all characteristics someone chooses to have (more or less). But beauty? Big deal. She happens to have it--many people do. Hardly a reason to hate someone.
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Ever notice that beautiful women tend to develop all those other characteristics. It sure sounds like this one has. Maybe this isn't the fault of beautiful people (and jocks for that matter), it's the fault of how everybody else treats them. No wonder we see behavior ranging from spoiled brat, to prima donna, to animal cruelty, to rape to murder. These people are taught starting at an early age that they are special and they can do whatever they want.
 
Jeez... all we need now is a video posted on YouTube of some androgynous- looking guy crying "LEAVE ALYCIA ALONE!!!" :'( :'( :'(
 
Julius Leonard Marx said:
Ever notice that beautiful women tend to develop all those other characteristics. It sure sounds like this one has. Maybe this isn't the fault of beautiful people (and jocks for that matter), it's the fault of how everybody else treats them. No wonder we see behavior ranging from spoiled brat, to prima donna, to animal cruelty, to rape to murder. These people are taught starting at an early age that they are special and they can do whatever they want.
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I've known many beautiful women who don't develop those characteristics in addition to those that have. I've also known many men who women consider extremely handsome who develop those other characteristics, and many who don't. Needless to say, there are people who would generally not be considered "beautiful" people (in the sense of widespread sex appeal, for this discussion) who develop those same characteristics.

We, collectively--our culture as a whole--elevate beautiful people in the public eye. Is it general human nature? Maybe. As an individual, I don't really understand it, though. I work with a number of women who are quite beautiful. As a male, I don't complain about seeing that beauty on a daily basis--hey, it's a nice perk--but at the end of the day, I see them for who they are, good, bad and in one case complete-and-utter-awful. And I don't treat them differently than anyone else because of their looks.

When it comes to people in the public eye, again, I understand the value sex appeal has--that's part of the business. But I'd like to think I have some deeper elements to me--sure, sometimes I look at someone on TV or in a movie and see a "hottie," but I'm also capable of seeing beyond that superficial level.
 
imhomerjay said:
Interesting list of characteristics. Since when did "beauty" become a reason to hate someone? Last time I checked, all of the others are quite legitimate reasons to dislike someone, and they also are all characteristics someone chooses to have (more or less). But beauty? Big deal. She happens to have it--many people do. Hardly a reason to hate someone.
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Because beauty is all she seem to have and she gets paid 700-large for it. That's a great reason for more qualified, but less well endowed, people to hate her.
 
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