What will girls do next?

Originally posted by The Omega
What's baking my noodle is this: The Western world puts such an emphasis on individuality, but still we should ALL look like THAT model (male or female) and wear THOSE clothes (fashion) and so on and so forth.

The real question perhaps is: Will we humans ever be able to shred the chains of vanity?

Why do women always think that the world is trying to presure them into looking young and forever beautiful??? The only real people out to corrupt the minds of women young and old into buying these products/injections/implants are the cosmetics people. They are just looking for a uick buck so they try to get women to believe they are ugly, even when they are not.

If you ask most guys what their opinion of what a real woman is, they will tell you more around an average looking woman, no one actually wants that anorexic swimsuit model. At least that's what I think.

The models are always butt ugly in my opinion, I would much rather have a woman with some meat on her bones, rather than a woman who eats nothing but leafs and then throws it up anyways. Also the idea of bigger breasts as being better is completely wrong in my opinion. The better ones are more of an average sized, and REAL!

Then the women with botox injecions in their lips look like they just got socked in the mouth with a fist and it's puffed up, not something that is attractive.

The more real a person is, the better they are in my eyes.

Sick sh!t. I'm a girl myself but, ever since I was little and was old enough to choose my own clothes to wear and dress myself I was never a girlie girl. Almost all my life I've shopped in the guy section, don't play around with my hair for hours on end and never wore makeup but mascera and black eyeliner. I think there's no point for caring as much about your hair as many girls do and I think make-up hides your real buety that is on the outside and makes you look fake. I've always wondered why do so many girls try to look TOO good on the outside? Yes, outside beauty is important to many people but what matters most is the beauty within you. So why all the products and crap to try and make yourself look better when you have your own uniqe beauty inside and out without the powdered mask and other things?

Lance: You say that the only people who put a pressure on women to look young and gourgeous are the ones from the cosmetic industry. Well, those guys ARE pretty powerfull! They have comecials every where, posters every where, etc. etc. Where ever you go, there'll be a model staring sulkily at you, skinny as hell, perfect to the smallest detail.
Then there's the media, films, commercials; normal sized women, women with unclean skin, oversized women, women with big noses and long breasts, they just don't exist on screen! They don't exist in commercials. They don't exist on TV. So yes, if women feel there's a pressure on them to forever look their best, it's not all in their minds. I'm happy to hear your oppinion on looks. I've heard several men say the same, and that's brilliant. But these industries just yell a bit louder than you guys.
Of course that doesn't mean we should just lie down and whimper.

Yerssot: same program. Only here, they didn't bother making a Danish version, they simply just use the American one. ( naive as I am, it makes me hope that it's because the Tv-station might have a tiny bit of moral left and that no one would participate - probably has more to do with money, though ...)

isn't it that they get the treatment for free?

I actually don't know ... Don't think the tv-company pays? Good point though.

well, someone has to pay the docs 😖
I've never really watched it

Me neither. Looks too painful ...

yeah, that's what they said in a promo once "I don't know if the pain is worth the result"
(my thoughts were: than you shouldn't have done it)

Exactly ... they look like live mumies, beaten to half past death 😑
Seriously scary. Should be rated.

I think it is overhere 😖

if you got something cause of lets say burnwounds, sure, go ahead, but to make a tvshow about people who only want better looks... no thanks

Had the same thought. Some of these people are perfectly normal looking, actually I dare say some of them are rather charming. When they come out, they look like everyone else. If only they actually helped someone who were so badly misshapen, burned, etc. that they had troubles leading a normal life, that would be perfectly understandable. In stead they pick people, who don't need surgery but some therapy against low self esteem.

it's all to get ratings, I'm afraid

seriously, we have a center here that treats fire-victims, but the doctors are on strike cause of the director, if that show could just show a bit of heart and got the doctors they use on the show to help out the victims there, to start giving them a new live, I would respect that show ... a little bit

Wow, I just realized something. I haven't watched TV for a month. 🙂

"you've taken a first step into a bigger world"

Originally posted by yerssot
it's all to get ratings, I'm afraid

seriously, we have a center here that treats fire-victims, but the doctors are on strike cause of the director, if that show could just show a bit of heart and got the doctors they use on the show to help out the victims there, to start giving them a new live, I would respect that show ... a little bit

Doubt that kind of people'll ever get a heart. Besides, they'll probably never choose someone they can't turn into a beauty. I think I heard them say so, actually, that they only pick those who'll turn out best. Bastards.

I doubt it will hurt them if they just did ONE episode about fire-victims, just one per season or something, that would help already, hey, they can even make a HUGE show about it for all I care, they would finally do something good

Brace yourself, I'm about to agree with you again.

*falls of chair*
darn my old reflexes, I'm not that fast as I used to be

*puts big, soft pillow next to Yerssots chair*
can't be too carefull with those old bones ...

you're a tad late dear, I fell already ... and to the wrong side of the chair