Talk:Beauties & Bullies/@comment-24846648-20140929191943/@comment-24594165-20141003113052

"Poor Dez, he's such a catch!" - Trish in "Cupids & Cuties" ;)

I'm pretty sure she's never called him ugly. She's commented negatively on his clothing, but not just straight-up on his looks. She mainly seems to be harsh towards him when he's annoying her.

I don't think it's petty at all. Mainstream media pretty much trains girls from a very young age to believe that they need to be pretty (by media-set standards) or they're worthless - so yeah, it goes way beyond just words like "ugly". And I bet it'd hit hardest for girls who aren't up-to-par with the media's standards of beauties.

Trish is beautiful, and let's be honest here - she's a different kinda beauty than what you usually see on television. And the media has a tendency to put down anything that's different. It's disgusting, but a reality. And you need to keep in mind that watching these sorts of things from before you can even speak - it gets engrained into your mind. It messes you up psychologically.