I have been so disapoointed in the Tyra show lately. You are judgemental, degrading, and look down on people with different lifestyles than you. Aren't you supposed to have people on your show in order to inform your audience more about the topic? It takes so much courage to get on national television and talk about something so taboo. Yet, you sit there and are publicly humiliating your guests. You also try to spoon feed and put words into people's mouths, and say "aren't you feeling...". If you are having them on your show, let them speak! And it gets on my last nerve when you so rudely cut people off and go to a commercial break. Like today you asked the second mom a question, she didn't have time to answer and you said "Exactly! we'll be right back". If you are going to continue your show, please remember the real reason for doing a talk show which is to inform and enlighten the world on topics that relate to them.

I think all of the comments so far have missed an important point. While it is true that a woman should be allowed to make money by any legal means necessary, I think it's also completely unfair to look on a woman like Tamara as a bad person for behaving the way she does. I know many adults who are parents that live full-time dominant/submissive lifestyles, and if that's their passion I don't think it's fair to say they ought to give it up because they have children. Parents need to be discreet with their lifestyles until their children are old enough to understand, but a fetish lifestyle is certainly nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing a person should abandon because of their children. For many of us, this is who we are, and it is unfair to the children to pretend to be someone else for their sake. It teaches children to fit themselves into a mold that society thinks they belong in, which is never fair and rarely resembles any real person.

We still live in a society that judge women in the adult entertainment industry way too hard. There are many actresses that command millions of dollars and have won awards for acting out very adult themes. And guess what, their children will see it. Telling these women to stop their choice of lifestyles to conform to an image that is acceptable to others, is totally crazy. Also, it is very hypocritical. These women decide to go into these industries because of necessity, then some really likes it. You promote girl power, then in the same breath put women in a box. We have insecurity issues right now because of someone else's standard of how we should live. I do believe that a woman should "do her" and she should be telling her children to do them. It will eliminate much of the insecurities that women have. Looking at your guest and their children, it appears that these women have raised well adjusted children because they followed what they thought was best for them and their families, not other way around. You need think about how we conform to other people standards, then we have confused children.

Tyra I love you and you are my sister in heart, but I have to disagree with you and the audience today on this one. I feel that unless you've been there, then you can't relate. I can relate to the mom's on the panel (mainly the dominatrix), as far as her decision to make money that she can control. However, I can relate to her daughter's submissiveness and guilt too. I'm a single mom and I had my daughter at 18. It wasn't until a few years ago where I began struggling financially and thought of doing things for money that I would have never considered before. You feel out of control, you are stressed and you panic when you can't afford to buy your child lunch for school or sanitary needs. There were times when I didn't have gas in my car to get to work or go to a job interview. I live in Michigan and there are thousands of people losing themselves because they can't find a job. Employers here are taking advantage of the desperate applicants and paying them next to nothing. So there are thousands of people who are doing things they never thought they would just to stay afloat. I know someone with Masters who was laid of 1 year ago and still can't find a job; he's now a bagger at a grocery store. I have a Bachelors degree and a great resume, yet I am supporting my daughter and myself with a part time job making $600/mo. I gave myself two years to find a job and when you can't find anything the bills don't stop coming, so then you get desperate and scared. There are people committing suicide regularly here because they are panicking and don’t feel they have any

I do not believe you were right. Tamara is doing what she feels she needs to do to support her children in a comfortable lifestyle. I work two jobs and my fiance works full time. There are three incomes and the children are on medicade and we recieve foodstamps. Even with all that we still do not have any exyra spending money at the end of the month. We are home bodies, we do not have lavish cars or jewelry etc... I and he pay child support for our children that do not live at home. So if this is what tamara decides to do so she can raise her children without any help from welfare or anyone else, then more power to her and I think she is a wonderful and intelligent woman for doing it alone. The clinical pshycologist can point her finger and say what she wants, she may have the degree, but until she is in that position and has to make that choice, I think she is dead WRONG!!!!!

K the end of my little blurb was cut off... her it is CON'T: ...is willing to work so hard for them. Congratulations Tyra for reversing years of being a good role model and fighter for equality. You just proved to me and the rest of the world how narrow your views really are.

I love Tyra, I watch her every day before work. For the most part she has been a great 'role model' for our youth, a great advocate for equality, but today I felt like she pushed her views too far. The first guest, Mistress Isis, has a legitimate job. A job that I have considered doing myself. She has done what she had to do to support herself and her children. Life works with money, you have no money and you have no life. This is not an easy way out, and it's not a "quick fix". It is a LIFESTYLE. Clearly not the "norm" of society but it exists behind many closed doors. This woman is feeding her children, putting clothes on their backs, and probably ends up at the end of the day with something for herself. This is what we all want, to be able to support ourselves and our families and succeed! Don't you think that children are embarassed when their parents are garbage men, does this mean that it is a demeaning job?! Maybe take a second and realize that not everyone is the same, we don't all have the same thoughts, feelings and desires. There's a reason why there are hundreds of thousands of jobs out there, because it takes ALL kinds of people to make it "work". This is just another aspect. Different, sure, but it is legitimate! What made me upset in all actuality is how Tyra chose to negate the fact that this woman has done everything that she had to do to support her family. Sometimes you have to take a step back and look at it objectively. She's not on welfare collecting food stamps, and her children should be proud that their mother loves them so much that she

RE-CESS-ION PEOPLE...AS JESUS WOOD DO HE'D EMBRACE ANYBODY. DONT CAST DOWN OTHERS. PLUS I THINK THIS IS WHAT WE ALL WANT. POWER N EASY MONEY. THE WOMEN ON THE SHOW, SHOWED NOT TO GIV UP N NOT KILL YOURSELF WHEN THINGS GO BAD. LIFE IS LIFE . THE PRESIDENT BUSH TIME WAS SO SAD I FELL WHAT THEY DO WAS NOTHING COMPARED WHAT HE MR BUSH DID N STILL WE ARE ALL PAYING FOR...RE--CESS-ION PEOPLE. I AM IN AWE OF THE WOMENS PERSEVERENCE NEVER BE AGAINST YOUR SISTERS. I WISH I AHD THE BALLS TO DO WHAT THEY DO. CHEERS N SALUTE

TO RACHEL SHAW........If you would humor me and recall the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve hid themselves and felt ashamed of their nakedness AFTER eating the forbidden fruit. I see nothing wrong with nudity and GOD must not of either. People in my opinion are generally judgmental to keep others from analyzing them....... Therefore I say as long as it is tasteful and not hurting anyone and "beautiful"(your words) when your daughter is old enough in your opinion and you want to share it with her, she will appreciate your designs as well.

Tyra, I watch your show faithfully, but I was so disappointed with the way you treated your guest Tamara today. I think it is so unfair for you to feel like you have the right to judge your guest. You kept saying you're not judging however, you were. I saw you with Isis, and you were soooooo supportive of him having a sex change operation even though it clealy hurt his mother. She had to get over it because she loved her son (daughter)but yet you were so against this woman being a dominatrix. Why do you feel it's okay to tell her she's wrong. Why is it okay, that one adult should have control over what another adult does. She is doing what she wants to do, you decided that modeling was what you wanted to do. Even if you can't understand why she's doing what she's doing, it's not up to you to tell her she's wrong. While I understand that her daughter is hurt by her but she will do things that hurt her mother as well. She needs to stop being a baby and get over it. She is grown now and does not appear to be maladjusted. Her mother must have done something right. Other adults will always do things we don't like, but we have to decide if we are going to allow ourselved to be hurt but another adults actions. This daughter and you need to get over and allow this woman to do what she wants to do, whether you agree with it or not. Maybe you're not really feeling this maybe it's just ratings but these are real people's lives.

I think people should just leave these women alone. It is easy to sit back and judge. If people were in that position, I am sure they would resort to that. They are providing for their family and not hurting anyone.

I don't see what you guys are trippin about! Everybody who has a problem these mothers and what they do, everyone of you should put money together and pay their bills. How about that?

OK FIRST OF ALL I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT EVERY LAST PERSON THAT HAD SOMETHING NEGATIVE TO SAY ABOUT THESE WOMEN SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!!!!!! HOW DARE YOU JUDGE THESES WOMEN FOR TRYING TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLE!!!!!!!! UNTIL YOU PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES AND WALK BACKWARDS YOU CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND. I AM A MOTHER OF TWO AND TRUST ME IF I WAS PUT IN A POSITION TO WHERE I DIDNT HAVE ANYONE TO DEPEND ON OR I COULDNT FIND A DECENT JOB THEN I SURE AS HELL WOULD GET MY BUTT ON A POLE TOO OR DOMINATE SOMEONE!!!! MY CHILDREN DIDNT ASK TO BE BORN I CHOSE TO HAVE THEM SO ITS MY RESPONSIBILTY TO PROVIDE BY ANY MEANS!!!! SOME DONT EVER HAVE TO GET THAT DESPERATE BUT SOME PEOPLE DO AND NOT EVERYONES SITUATION IS THE SAME AND NOT EVERYONE DOES THOSE TYPES OF JOBS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. SO I APPLAUD THEM BECAUSE THEY DO IT FOR THEIR CHILDREN. IT MAY NOT BE THE BEST DECISION IN THE WORLD BUT LIFE IS HARD AND BEIN HOMELESS IS CLEARLY NOT AN OPTION FOR THESES WOMEN!!!!! I WAS SO UPSET AT THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO HAD THE NERVE TO JUDGE, EVEN TYRA!!!!!! NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE HURTING. BUT THEY SHOULD TRY TO EXPLAIN IT TO THEIR CHILDREN WHY THEY HAVE DONE THE JOB THEY HAVE FOR SO LONG AND THAT THEY MEAN WELL. BUT IT IS THEIR BUSINESS AND NOT FOR ME OR ANYONE ELSE TO JUDGE.

I have a moral delimma that relates to the show today. I am a graphic designer and I am often asked to design adult content and some of the images are graphic in nature. I also have a 13 month old daughter. I only work with these images when my daughter is sleeping or not in the same room with me, and I keep them password protected, but my concern is this: will my continuing to design adult content affect my daughter later on in life? I don't want to hurt her, but once again, I make money to raise her and put money aside for her post-secondary education. I want her to not be consumed with the student loan debt that loomed over me after my university education. Also I am proud of the work I produce. Nothing is too graphic (just nudity no sex) and I think its beautiful... What do you guys think?

Look, these women are not bad people, your right. It isn't about judging them for what they choose to do as part of the way they live. At this point it has now become about what life lessons they are teaching their children. In today's society women need to be independant. Both women are showing that they need to go back to relying on men to make it, that what they can do for themself isn't good enough. That isn't a message I would ever want to send to my kids. The family would be stronger if they stayed truer to their family ties. Doing "what they need to do" will provide for the household yes, but it will also create a wedge in the relationship that will take forever to remove.