Comments on: America’s Next Top Model Contestant Heather Wins a Challenge and…..

By: Heather in China

Heather in China — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:39:37 +0000

[...] the latest segment of America’s Next Top Model, Heather, who has Asperger Syndrome, and the other girls go to China. Her expressions in these [...]

By: All Hail the Geek Girls

All Hail the Geek Girls — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:31:16 +0000

[...] girl cult classic“), to Heather, who has Asperger Syndrome and who was recently on America’s Next Top Model. Time was when a girl with food stains on her shirt, spectacles on her nose and a passion for, say, [...]

By: Autismville

Autismville — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:42:27 +0000

My apologies for not following through. Quite obviously new at all of this! Thanks for posting the actual link Kristina …

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:55:26 +0000

I guess it might be said (very literally) that we’ll all women/people of color….. have never had to use a tanning product as the sun does its work and especially for my son Charlie (who is half-Asian).

By: Michele Emily

Michele Emily — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:46:56 +0000

First, Carol’s Daughter is for anyone who wants to use the product. Just because a woman of color started the company, and the product is used by a lot of women of color doesn’t mean that it’s exclusively for them. Also, no one ever comes out and says, “this product is exclusively for these people.” You can’t alienate an entire demographic like that. Anyone will tell you, that’s bad business.

I think it’s pretty out there to say that Heather was in blackface. It’s a tan. You’d have to consider every person with a spray-on tan, or other type of bronzer, to be in blackface. That’s ridiculous.

By: Joe Mele

Joe Mele — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:39:56 +0000

Yea

I meant that remark in reply to the jezebel blog not you. Sorry for the confusion

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:11:49 +0000

Thanks for the link.

BTW, Heather’s picture on the Carol’s Daughter site is very well done.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:13:07 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Joe—-I didn’t mean to imply that. I think this is the Autismville post?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:09:24 +0000

Would you mind linking directly to the post Autismville?

I followed the link presented and ended up finding a few posts but nothing that looked like strike a pose to me.

By: Joseph Mele

Joseph Mele — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:50:32 +0000

As for the black face, Heather is the model not the one in charge that made that call. To blame the model is wrong.