Paris Hilton is one of many female celebrities placed on a pedestal by media corporations as a rich, glamorous, beautiful woman. In keeping with the other video examples, she dresses provocatively, has been known to act provocatively *cough*, and Dave introduced her as a film star and recording artist. She was on the show to promote her perfume.

At one point Dave even said facetiously, “A person in your position could serve now as an exemplary role model for youngsters.”

She is not a proper a role model, and should not receive the attention she does. We got to see Dave knock her off her pedestal because of one of her previous misdeeds.

Meanwhile, in the preceding video, the third runner-up for Miss Teen USA knocked herself off her own pedestal. It’s a wakeup call moment. She is being presented to us on national TV as one of our nation’s best young ladies, and then we realize the superficiality of our perception.

I concluded with the 500 years of art video merely to show the many interpretations of beauty, though I think you’ll notice some common themes in the type of women depicted (and I’m not even talking about the whole only-white-women-are-beautiful thing that has obviously been with us for centuries).