Nice thoughts, Saffron, but I quite honestly don't believe you. I'm sure you're right, it's not that, but I don't see how anyone growing up in this society can avoid the thoughts which we're constantly being provoced to have. You must see a difference between ugly and beautiful people, no matter how much you dislike the fact that you do (or else you are one amazing humanbeing!). Can you tell me, being 100% sure, that you don't ever just look at a person, and your subconcious plays a trick on you and tells you he/she is either very beautiful, less beautiful, or even ugly?
I would like to live up to the big thoughts I sometimes get, and actually consider all people to be equal. But fact is, I don't. Some are more equal than others for me, and I'm certainly a hypocrite in more than one way. It might be society, it might be subconcious playing tricks on me because of the picture media gives me - I don't know. It just is that way. And I sort of think that I'm not alone.
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The media sucks. Plain and simple... I feel constant pressure to look perfect all the time, to have an incredibly flat stomach (which is a feat in itself!) and to look as though I stepped out from a page in Vogue. Unfortunately, it's not that easy and I've like given up on trying. I'm just going to look how I want, you know? No... I'm not sloppy or anything but if I don't want to flat iron my hair or wear makeup one day, so be it!
I sometimes feel upset and quite jealous of those girls who just are naturally perfect without trying... yeah, I'm little and stuff and people tell me I'm so pretty, but I just don't see it sometimes, you know? So point being-- the media does suck. Too much pressure...!
I sometimes feel upset and quite jealous of those girls who just are naturally perfect without trying... yeah, I'm little and stuff and people tell me I'm so pretty, but I just don't see it sometimes, you know? So point being-- the media does suck. Too much pressure...!
don't listen to the media, eat pizza, stay home, be a couch potato, watch sports whilst drinking a beer, it's all good
*leaving QZ to go to the gym*
*leaving QZ to go to the gym*
You are not alone Silje.
I'm not a perfect human being, and I too was a person that judge solely by looks alone, and classifying them into either ugly and/or beautiful. However, going through rough personal experiences, and thus starting to form my own opinions about aesthetics by learning and discovering the person that I would like to be. I decided not to believe what the media is telling me who is beautiful or not. I approach people with an open mind. Granted, it is hard. Because you have grown with a set of information since birth, and subconciously you judge just by looks alone. But it can be done, if you are true to who you are and to what frame of mind you believe.
Still, if someone wants to go through the road of what a conglomerate dictates who is beautiful or not, instead of being an individual and approach people with an open mind, go ahead, everyone has a different frame set of opinions.
It all comes down to things. Au Corteur dresses, make up, plastic surgery, etc are just things that man made. Those things are what make "women" beautiful, not the person.
The clothes do not make the man. Hehehehe.
We are all equal, and thanks dear for the compliment. Hehehe I'm an amazing human being ;) :P LOL jk
Still, good post :)
I'm not a perfect human being, and I too was a person that judge solely by looks alone, and classifying them into either ugly and/or beautiful. However, going through rough personal experiences, and thus starting to form my own opinions about aesthetics by learning and discovering the person that I would like to be. I decided not to believe what the media is telling me who is beautiful or not. I approach people with an open mind. Granted, it is hard. Because you have grown with a set of information since birth, and subconciously you judge just by looks alone. But it can be done, if you are true to who you are and to what frame of mind you believe.
Still, if someone wants to go through the road of what a conglomerate dictates who is beautiful or not, instead of being an individual and approach people with an open mind, go ahead, everyone has a different frame set of opinions.
It all comes down to things. Au Corteur dresses, make up, plastic surgery, etc are just things that man made. Those things are what make "women" beautiful, not the person.
The clothes do not make the man. Hehehehe.
We are all equal, and thanks dear for the compliment. Hehehe I'm an amazing human being ;) :P LOL jk
Still, good post :)