Yet Another Retort
In response to a previous comment:
First of all, I said retort, not report:
Retort-n. A quick incisive reply, especially one that turns the first speaker's words to his or her own disadvantage.
Extended Definition
Second, I am not "attacking" girls for trying to be pretty, or even for being pretty by no fault of their own for that matter. I am simply insinuating that girls should not be constrained to any particular figure. Also, who decides upon the precice definition of pretty? The record industry assumes that it is their job. I just tend to disagree.
As for this, "A girl should want to look like a pretty girl like Brittney or Hillary." That is just one of the most subjective and inconsiderate thing I've ever heard. Plus I'm sure that you look just like Colin Farrell yourself.
As for the connection between being Happy and being pretty, I think that happiness is totally unrelated to how you look. If you are isolated from sociey because of you choose not to conform to the record industry's image of beautiful, and thus feel depressed, that is what I'm trying to stop.
Next, mental capacity is in someway related, our society seems to value people with higher SAT scores over those of us with a greater creative capacity. That is equally wrong, but a completely different argument. Respect is largely based upon the same rules. If you adhere to the laws of beauty, people will respect you. If you are "smarter" by some miscontrued measure of society, you will be more respected. Respect is highly subjective.
"Then take lessons from cool people. I do not see why you do not understand this. Sure some girl may not be as pretty as Hillary but is'nt it better for all guys (at least not the gay ones) if she trys to be as much like a pretty girl as possible?" No. I would and will never take lessons from a person who society feels is more valuable than me simply because of how he looks. I think it would be better for all people, men and women, gay and straight, if we just judged eachother by what we are inside, not how we look, dress, and talk. Of course this is a perhaps unachievable dream, but if we would all try to acheive a socially just society in our own way, the world would be a better place.
"Pretty girls come to America to be free. Next to the record store where I work there is a spa that always has pretty girls who have just come to America- and they came here for our freedoms and stuff." I am sorry that these women have come to america under false pretenses just as I am sorry that you misunderstand the meaning of our "freedoms and stuff". In America, you are free to look just like you want, practice any religion you want, and act exactly as you want to. That is freedom. For instance, in certain countries, if women show their stomachs, they are stoned to death. Freedom is not the right to look pretty, freedom is the right to look like whatever you want and not be prosecuted for it.
Yes, now, thanks to technology, we have the ability to change our appearence for what society is told to be the better. I just think that people should stop being told what it is desirable to look like.
And finally for this lovely little tidbit: "I think you need to stop being such a sexist- esp. when you are always posting sex talk on your blog. Again let's all chill out and agree to agree on the important stuff." I think you need to look up sexist in the dictionary. It reads:
Sexist-n. Attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender.
Now who do you think is the more sexist of us two?
"Why shouldn't we encourage girls to want to be pretty- what you want to encourage them to be ugly to make all our female stars look like some ugly girls or something." <- You
"I think it would be better for all people, men and women, gay and straight, if we just judged eachother by what we are inside, not how we look, dress, and talk." <- Me
First of all, I said retort, not report:
Retort-n. A quick incisive reply, especially one that turns the first speaker's words to his or her own disadvantage.
Extended Definition
Second, I am not "attacking" girls for trying to be pretty, or even for being pretty by no fault of their own for that matter. I am simply insinuating that girls should not be constrained to any particular figure. Also, who decides upon the precice definition of pretty? The record industry assumes that it is their job. I just tend to disagree.
As for this, "A girl should want to look like a pretty girl like Brittney or Hillary." That is just one of the most subjective and inconsiderate thing I've ever heard. Plus I'm sure that you look just like Colin Farrell yourself.
As for the connection between being Happy and being pretty, I think that happiness is totally unrelated to how you look. If you are isolated from sociey because of you choose not to conform to the record industry's image of beautiful, and thus feel depressed, that is what I'm trying to stop.
Next, mental capacity is in someway related, our society seems to value people with higher SAT scores over those of us with a greater creative capacity. That is equally wrong, but a completely different argument. Respect is largely based upon the same rules. If you adhere to the laws of beauty, people will respect you. If you are "smarter" by some miscontrued measure of society, you will be more respected. Respect is highly subjective.
"Then take lessons from cool people. I do not see why you do not understand this. Sure some girl may not be as pretty as Hillary but is'nt it better for all guys (at least not the gay ones) if she trys to be as much like a pretty girl as possible?" No. I would and will never take lessons from a person who society feels is more valuable than me simply because of how he looks. I think it would be better for all people, men and women, gay and straight, if we just judged eachother by what we are inside, not how we look, dress, and talk. Of course this is a perhaps unachievable dream, but if we would all try to acheive a socially just society in our own way, the world would be a better place.
"Pretty girls come to America to be free. Next to the record store where I work there is a spa that always has pretty girls who have just come to America- and they came here for our freedoms and stuff." I am sorry that these women have come to america under false pretenses just as I am sorry that you misunderstand the meaning of our "freedoms and stuff". In America, you are free to look just like you want, practice any religion you want, and act exactly as you want to. That is freedom. For instance, in certain countries, if women show their stomachs, they are stoned to death. Freedom is not the right to look pretty, freedom is the right to look like whatever you want and not be prosecuted for it.
Yes, now, thanks to technology, we have the ability to change our appearence for what society is told to be the better. I just think that people should stop being told what it is desirable to look like.
And finally for this lovely little tidbit: "I think you need to stop being such a sexist- esp. when you are always posting sex talk on your blog. Again let's all chill out and agree to agree on the important stuff." I think you need to look up sexist in the dictionary. It reads:
Sexist-n. Attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender.
Now who do you think is the more sexist of us two?
"Why shouldn't we encourage girls to want to be pretty- what you want to encourage them to be ugly to make all our female stars look like some ugly girls or something." <- You
"I think it would be better for all people, men and women, gay and straight, if we just judged eachother by what we are inside, not how we look, dress, and talk." <- Me
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