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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2010-06-22 12:01 pm
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[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2010-06-22 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
> straight from a patriarchal definition of female worth

Interesting. Because women buy into and feed and propagate that constantly.

[identity profile] andlosers.livejournal.com 2010-06-22 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
(Pssssst! That was Nevada, not Utah. And he's got a really strong case if he wants to take it to court. Which I'd guess is what's happening.)

[identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com 2010-06-22 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If that Toshiba runs Ubuntu, it might be my next netbook...

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2010-06-22 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, now I've mulled on it, I'm thinking that ugly card blog post is not part of the solution. It's part of the problem.

It's the 'you are beautiful, all of you' thing.

No, you're not. This is the same mentality that powers the 'anyone can make it' American Dream, and it fucks up US society top to bottom because not everyone can. Not everyone is academically gifted enough to go to university, not everyone can earn above average wage, not everyone can play the guitar like Eric Clapton or football like Beckham.

Some people are plug ugly, and I don't mean only those with facial deformities. Some are just kinda not that good looking. As a friend of mine remarked after he put his picture on Am I hot or not, he's accepted he's a 7.5. There is an aesthetic ideal, like it or not, and that it is heavily warped by society and the media is a bad thing, but no, we're far from all being beautiful. Saying we are is just a plain lie.
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