Are People Too Insecure About Themselves? - Discussion
May 30, 2015 16:03:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 16:03:19 GMT
People can do what they like to their own bodies, but personally, I've never understood the fascination with irreversibly staining one's skin like that.
I have very pale skin (do a Google image search for 'Sheamus' to see what kind of tone I'm talking about), and I like it; my ultra-low levels of melanin make me look very distinctive, even if they do give me a vampiric aversion to sunlight and hatred of hot weather. I would never want to sully it with a design that I may not even like any more in a few years, and in any case degrades as you age and your skin loses elasticity. Tattoos may also be carcinogenic, and even if they aren't, the application process is very risky if not done absolutely perfectly.
Having said that, I am against artificial cosmetic "enhancers" of all kinds. I'm male, but I think make-up makes girls look silly. So long as a woman is in her fertile years and looks healthy, then she is attractive. That's not to say she will be attractive to everyone, but then no one is; but someone who meets those criteria will be attractive to someone. Make-up does nothing for self-esteem either, and (being in my early 20s) I can assure you that there is a gargantuan amount of young ladies who can't leave the house without their make-up on, and are essentially scared of their own appearance. Not to mention that make-up is definitely carcinogenic.
I don't even like piercings! Modest earrings are okay, I suppose; I still don't understand why one would want them, but at least they don't look totally unnatural and intrusive, like facial piercings and the like.
And don't even get me started on body hair removal...
Of course, if someone wants to do these things, it's their body, who am I to stop them? But I just think it's sad; your physical features are what your ancestors gave you. Be proud of them, not ashamed. The only things I do to my body in this context, besides maintaining personal hygiene, are keeping my hair at grade 4 on the top and the back, grade 3 on the sides, and keeping facial hair at a reasonable length.
Feel free to delete/relocate this comment if it's off-topic, but human sexuality has been rewired, and there are hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of people who - due to a lifetime of exposure to supermodels, bodybuilders and other "perfect-looking" people wherever they look - are not attracted to mere mortals any more, and it puts pressure on both sexes to play up to what they think (what the media has programmed them to think) constitutes attractive. I won't bring too much conspiracy talk here, as I realise this is not a conspiracy forum, but this is undoubtedly a major part of a nefarious campaign to drive down birthrates and reduce the global (particularly racial Europeans, who are the primary targets) population.
There is a trend in South Korea and Japan, where middle-class youths get ridiculous plastic surgery in order to make themselves look more white; in other words, they are ashamed of their own ethnic origin and the physical traits resultant of it. They go under the knife, and come out looking completely different; but they don't look white. They look like a disfigured, mutant cross between two things, they look out of place and silly. They went into surgery looking like normal members of their race, and come out looking like a cheap, sub-standard imitation of someone else's race. It's a dreadful phenomenon.
I'm Irish, not Oriental; but they have their epicanthic folds and flat noses for a reason. Mutilating themselves like that is basically a crime against nature.
It's summed up by this rather humourous meme:
Anyway... sorry for the diversion, but it's a topic I've been thinking quite a bit about recently, and I think it's all interrelated.
I have very pale skin (do a Google image search for 'Sheamus' to see what kind of tone I'm talking about), and I like it; my ultra-low levels of melanin make me look very distinctive, even if they do give me a vampiric aversion to sunlight and hatred of hot weather. I would never want to sully it with a design that I may not even like any more in a few years, and in any case degrades as you age and your skin loses elasticity. Tattoos may also be carcinogenic, and even if they aren't, the application process is very risky if not done absolutely perfectly.
Having said that, I am against artificial cosmetic "enhancers" of all kinds. I'm male, but I think make-up makes girls look silly. So long as a woman is in her fertile years and looks healthy, then she is attractive. That's not to say she will be attractive to everyone, but then no one is; but someone who meets those criteria will be attractive to someone. Make-up does nothing for self-esteem either, and (being in my early 20s) I can assure you that there is a gargantuan amount of young ladies who can't leave the house without their make-up on, and are essentially scared of their own appearance. Not to mention that make-up is definitely carcinogenic.
I don't even like piercings! Modest earrings are okay, I suppose; I still don't understand why one would want them, but at least they don't look totally unnatural and intrusive, like facial piercings and the like.
And don't even get me started on body hair removal...
Of course, if someone wants to do these things, it's their body, who am I to stop them? But I just think it's sad; your physical features are what your ancestors gave you. Be proud of them, not ashamed. The only things I do to my body in this context, besides maintaining personal hygiene, are keeping my hair at grade 4 on the top and the back, grade 3 on the sides, and keeping facial hair at a reasonable length.
Feel free to delete/relocate this comment if it's off-topic, but human sexuality has been rewired, and there are hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of people who - due to a lifetime of exposure to supermodels, bodybuilders and other "perfect-looking" people wherever they look - are not attracted to mere mortals any more, and it puts pressure on both sexes to play up to what they think (what the media has programmed them to think) constitutes attractive. I won't bring too much conspiracy talk here, as I realise this is not a conspiracy forum, but this is undoubtedly a major part of a nefarious campaign to drive down birthrates and reduce the global (particularly racial Europeans, who are the primary targets) population.
There is a trend in South Korea and Japan, where middle-class youths get ridiculous plastic surgery in order to make themselves look more white; in other words, they are ashamed of their own ethnic origin and the physical traits resultant of it. They go under the knife, and come out looking completely different; but they don't look white. They look like a disfigured, mutant cross between two things, they look out of place and silly. They went into surgery looking like normal members of their race, and come out looking like a cheap, sub-standard imitation of someone else's race. It's a dreadful phenomenon.
I'm Irish, not Oriental; but they have their epicanthic folds and flat noses for a reason. Mutilating themselves like that is basically a crime against nature.
It's summed up by this rather humourous meme:
Anyway... sorry for the diversion, but it's a topic I've been thinking quite a bit about recently, and I think it's all interrelated.