The worship of others
I see it all the time. People trying to emulate some real shitbags simply because the shitbags are famous. You know what I mean-girls starving themselves to death to try to look like Kate Moss or the Olsen twins, teenaged boys screwing themselves up with body-altering chemicals so they can make the big leagues like McGwire did. The names I cite are interchangable with your favorite shitbag of the moment-the problem, as I see it, is that so many people are lost. Like they aren't sure enough of themselves to appreciate their own identities, their unique individualities. And it most assuredly is not limited to the young-I see many a person who should know better go out and do dumb shit because they saw some show and Sandra Skankalot was doing it, or had had it done.
Maybe I'm weird-I have always been able to spot a dumbass at a distance. It isn't hard to figure out that a good number of celebrities are stupid people who you would hardly want to dumb yourself down to emulate. So then, what is the attraction? The money? The fame? The feeling of personal inadequacy?
Maybe I'm weird-I have always been able to spot a dumbass at a distance. It isn't hard to figure out that a good number of celebrities are stupid people who you would hardly want to dumb yourself down to emulate. So then, what is the attraction? The money? The fame? The feeling of personal inadequacy?
posted by Jolly Roger at 9:14 PM
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I say personal inadequacy.
Tragically the media doesn't help matters any either. Especially where fashion and Jenny Craig collide.
I know of a photographer who will only photograph skinny chicks and when he does he manages to get them naked. It's almost like a male pride thing. I don't know him personally, meaning I've never met him in person, yet I do know him through his blog (yanno, kinda like you) but I had to stop reading his blog when I realized every time I read his blog I felt angry. I didn't realize it until recently it was because of the half nude women he posts on his blog.
I don't have an issue with nudity at all. I know that I am an attractive woman (it's my mantra :P) and that I don't have problems in the relationship or sex department. Yet everytime I see one of his photos, I doubt myself and my abilities. I was letting this yahoo have too much control over how I was feeling about myself. And even worse yet, he's nobody to me. I think that pissed me off the most at myself.
So I make sure to surround myself with positive role models for me. It's the only way I know to live.
I think that when more people make those sorts of self discovery and take the steps to do what I'm trying to do for myself, there will be a hell of alot more self esteem in the world.
That's just my 2 pence.
grrrrrr
I was here earlier and was able to comment on this post but then this afternoon when I got back to read the first post listed it was gone :(
I wanted to read it doggoneit but I didn't have enough time and now you took it away *starts crying*
I was gonna do this cry-assin in an email and then after searching for what seemed like forever I realized that I didn't have your email addy. So you get to listen to me cryass here :P
Shannon, I don't have a clue. I knew I didn't hallucinate or dream making a new post. And I didn't whack it either.
lol darlin be careful what you whack.
You may need it later ;)
I wish I could remember the title of the post. What I do when I can't read on a daily basis is when I go to a blog that I read on a regular basis I go back to the last entry I know I read and then work my way to the present.
That's how I left a comment here and am now wondering what happened to the one .........ah hell, I dunno now lol finals has really fried a few brain cells.
I dunno if I'm coming or going. Hope you have a great weekend.
Hugs
God that last entry didn't make a lick of sense.
Told ya I'm a crispy critter today.
Shannon,
I tried to put it back from memory, just for you. Let's see how long it lasts this time :)
Awwwwwww you are a sweetie!
Yeah that was the post alright!
I thought I had already read it but ..... I remember now.... I wasn't able to post at that time.
Thank you darlin you are the best!
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