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I love this article.

And for what it's worth, as someone who describes himself as a reality TV whore (with no shame about it), I have zero interest in this show (Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll). Which is doubly bad when you look at this picture and realize half the show will feature scantily clad women.

Whatever it is, putting this show on and putting Veronica Mars on hiatus for two months is NOT a step forward for feminism. This much I know.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

“Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll,” which is to have its premiere on Tuesday night on the CW network, may look like just another reality show with attractive, slinkily dressed women preening for the camera in the hope of a shot at stardom.

But “Pussycat Dolls Present” is about female empowerment, the show’s producers explained to a group of television writers and critics here in January,

“Everything the Pussycat Dolls are is everything that I’ve developed myself into being,” said the rap star Lil’ Kim, who is a judge on the show and who served a prison sentence for lying to a federal grand jury about a shooting outside a radio station.

For the uninitiated, the Pussycat Dolls are a female singing group whose six members slither through their music videos dressed like Barbie’s nasty cousins. In their best known song they ask the musical question: “Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?”