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Medication for the Beauty World |
July 23, 2012, 8:22PM |
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by: BOTOXBOTOX topic: Rants bookmark this article view bookmarked articles go to archives |
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| I wont shut my fucking my mouth and I have a lot to say right now. So if you have ANY intelligence, continue and read below. BUT if you only look at pictures and cant read, then please click off my nexo. Thanks. Now its time to talk about my favorite subject: BEAUTY. After being victimized every day for not being THIS OR THAT its time I put this shit to rest.
I’m SOMEONE. Not SOME THING. Popular culture, reinforced by mass media, plays a cruel, tantalizing game with us all. In its commercial mode it creates an idealized standard of human appearance impossible for 99% of us to attain and then sells us products and services to help correct, minimize or disguise our inevitable shortcomings from this air-brushed image of perfection. Though increasingly aimed at men as well, the primary target of this ongoing campaign of creative dissatisfaction has traditionally been female. It is, after all, women who have been more conditioned from early childhood to equate their destinies with their looks. The wishful notion that with enough time, money, effort and will-power any woman can and should attempt to look like an extremely tall, young, slender-yet-big-breasted, Nordic blonde model of a certain facial bone structure more-or-less summarizes the prevailing beauty myth. Minor variations of the basic look are introduced and recycled periodically to keep more buyers in the fashionable game of adopting the latest imagery. This narrow concept of female beauty has been assimilated and perpetuated by both genders, though from quite different cultural situations. The desire for achieving the right image drives much of our media-saturated culture, especially the most impressionable, our young. The goal of the professional image-makers is that we consumers buy all those self-improvement solutions to keep the market economy going. The unintended consequences are somewhat less benign. The beauty myth of our culture is the psychologically crippling equivalent of foot-binding in an earlier China. Basically stupid. A self-confident teen is a rarity in the Worldwide Billions of young women suffer from chronic, health-threatening eating disorders. Some try to play the dangerous, often deadly game of becoming thin enough. Others opt out by stuffing their negative feelings with excessive, unhealthy food or deliberately making themselves less attractive. Some try to become invisible or even mutilate themselves in reaction to the idealized mold. No girl remains unaffected. Girls with DNA not programmed to fit most of the highly improbable physical characteristics of the beauty myth just give up, often in depression. Even those who come closest to attaining the current "look" tend to magnify or imagine minor "flaws" and are often the least self-satisfied of all. By no means limited to teenagers, weight control has become a world wide obsession and a major, diversified industry. The point being: you are being over-fucked and sold, your soul sold. And not many people seem to care. ITS ALWAYS ABOUT IMAGE and I know some of you who are hurt the most by this will counter act and try to blame it all on me BUT ITS NOT ABOUT ME. I know who and what I am. But do you? Do you know what the fuck you’re thinking, or is someone else doing it for you? Now, when I am walking around and I see signs advertising diets or hear ads on the radio I just shudder. This just reinforces the idea that some peoples' appearances are "wrong". How can this be? Who and What lets the normal standard of beauty exist? Well, pick up a magazine for a minute. Flip through. Look at the ads and pictures closely. Everyone is trim as a supermodel. Turn on your television (or don't, it might not be worth the experience). Look at the sort of people who are on sitcoms. Look at the people on the news and in commercials. All trim and slim as can be. Perfect make up complexions. Scary and sick. I try to confront these people. Asking, what’s wrong with your head.. but it’s a disease that cant be easily fixed. Just try to smile and look pretty. This is our culmination of Miss Universe? This is all very gross. How do you feel now? I guess your part is pretty obvious for what you can do to help. I just wish I didn't have to always only hear this message from women. Men are suffering from the exact same problems. They just don't have as much of a voice. |
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 mortainius |
This is a well written, well thought about post and I agree with you on most parts.
The image of perfection that most of us try to conform to is far reaching and entirely media influenced and i've know many a girl to be depressed or have eating disorders because they can't look the way they want to. It sickens me that we allow this shit to happen. I feel it isn't the be all and end all of brittish media though as we are moving more in the direction of natural beauty don't get me wrong we are by no means doing it right.... but... we are on the way at least. July 24, 2012, 5:34AM |
 BOTOXBOTOX |
@Mortainus.
American media is in no way heading towards "natural" beauty. ------ Queen Cunt July 24, 2012, 5:26PM |
mortainius |
Y'all need to become english then... will solve all your problems lol ^.^ July 24, 2012, 5:42PM |
 MadHouse |
Dude we already know this. Repeating generic conversations of things long past is what this is. Good job writing however. Kudos. ------ Someday you will know exactly what you knew. July 28, 2012, 10:03AM |
 JimWahl |
uhhmmm.... I used to be addicted to media practically, so I can say with pure confidence that those examples are a bit outdated... When it comes down to the idea that everyone in the media is trim, I must bring up the point of the show Mike and Molly. A show where the main characters are heavier set. On the subject of that show, I must also say that I noticed most televised media on cable and dish glorifies those who dislike conformity and who would rather let themselves rot away from all the beers and burgers they pound down. Then from there I turn my head to fast food. Then to cereals. Then to all sorts of other things. Maybe it's just the fact that I live in the cities and am exposed to only the best of reality in the biggest of doses, but it seems to me that the plastic beauty you base your post around are a more suburban concept... even when it comes to the popular kids I used to go to school with. They were a group of 20 out of hundreds of people who acted like your stereotype person and excluded all the "ugly" or "dumb" people... which was everyone else who didn't try hard to be perfect or even care much at all... It could also be the fact that I'm a guy who tends to not focus mainly on the fashion aspect o the media by any means. What I see in mass conformity is that it's cool for guys to be totally gross slobs who wallow in their own filth and then get all clean for public, but once in public they revert to obnoxious shameful things to get them almost jailed. Girls are made out to BE insecure worry warts tat have the IQ of a pea and the clothing of an 80's hooker... You may be reading a bit too deep into Cosmo or whatever, but I don't see this all to much anymore. I do see you have many over the top great points however. You've got great talent for expressing your thoughts too. I generally have a few flubbs and miswordings here and there -.- *blaahhhrg* but I hope you understand what I mean by this... despite the choppy all over way I type ------ It only takes one voice to start a revolution... August 1, 2012, 11:38AM |
JimWahl |
"I must also say that I noticed most televised media on cable and dish glorifies those who dislike conformity and who would rather let themselves rot away from all the beers and burgers they pound down." <-- yeah, it contradicts, but that's media >.<
------ It only takes one voice to start a revolution... August 1, 2012, 11:40AM |
BOTOXBOTOX |
@Jim Wahl I live in a city of approx. 9million people. I don't think any of my opinions (and thats what they are just my opinions in a RANT) are suburban, I live downtown.
Also with your example to the show "Mike and Molly" thats ONE SHOW out the thousands. I appreciate your honesty and I RESPECT your opinion however I disagree with you and I think the Media needs to change before we starve ourselves to death or EAT ourselves to death. ------ Queen Cunt August 1, 2012, 8:03PM |
JimWahl |
I suppose you bring up a good point. I just can't find many of the examples you give in the minneapolis-st.paul area much anymore... All I see are homeless people and the insecure... where are you at in general by the way? ------ It only takes one voice to start a revolution... August 2, 2012, 10:15AM |
 Morbid_Mitch |
I agree with all that you say, I see it as well.
this system, economy, market is more for death than for life which makes me feel sick and odious inside. worse yet, ANYONE I have EVER talked to about such issues just outright neglects their existence and in turn demonizes me for being as I am.. it's all so very discouraging and hope for a better world is fast fading. I feel alone because where everyone I have ever known has already seemed to accept this shit, while giving up on humanity, I refuse to lose hope and stop trying. ultimately for the time being it leaves me alone and unsatisfied however. August 7, 2012, 1:25PM |
 PINKYandtheBRAIN |
I just want to say I have read several of your blogs and I agree with you. August 8, 2012, 4:09AM |
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