Does it piss you off that this the Country is all about physical appearance?

Question

A lot of people practically worship people who are good looking, and treat them with the red carpet, until we get to know them of course. Some people treat good looking people like hell too, out of envy, but that's a different story. People automatically think you have it together, and are not shy. Some people spend tons of money just to look like them, or be like them, thus the usage of them in advertisements (notice you don't see too many average people in adds unless it has to do with garbage bags or something). Some people, mainly men, try so hard to get themselves a beautiful woman, although her looks make her no different than the fat chick who eats too many hamburgers (I have to admit, I'm the same). It used to be this way for women mostly, but men are becoming the same way (worried about appearance-much more self-conscious-I'm one of them, sad to say.). Sometimes all of this makes me want to go and live on the moon. Does anyone else feel this way?

Answer 1

Yes, it does bother me that this country is all about physical appearance. It bothers me that people automatically assume that because I am fat that I run off to McDonald's every day. I am a vegetarian and still fat. It bothers me that my daughter feels like she needs to starve herself to death (She's anorexic) because everyone on the ads are thin and she doesn't want to get picked on.

The weight loss commercials are designed to make a fat person feel they are not as good as other people because they are fat. In one of them, a woman is standing there saying how her husband looks at her like a trophy wife now. As if a womans worth is only in how she looks!

I would not want to move to the moon, but I would like to have the ability to wave a wand and remove all the false images on television. The models who's pictures are airbrushed..poof..gone. The Before and After photo's that are obviously fake...poof... gone. The ads that make people dislike themselves for any reason... poof... gone! I would also like to be able to make everyone happy with themselves and take away their desire to make other people feel bad about themselves.

I would just get lonely on the moon.

Answer 2

I feel the same, brother. I too want to be in a location where there's people with more substance. It's a sign of how far our country has fallen, even though claiming to be 'advanced'. Yes, we have technology but we don't have quality of Life. MOST of what is proposed as the way to live or eat has no concrete evidence as being fit for everyone's genetics. (One week tomatoes and coffee are good; the next they are bad, etc, etc).
We are in a society that worships the outer shell and the shallow lives of celebrities but has no clue on what is important.
As GORGEOUS as a woman may be, she is a faded memory after she dies. (Those who use models to promote business just look for someone else).
Life is more than the shell.

Answer 3

I agree.
What scares me is the young teenagers who get plastic surgery. And even the older people who try to avoid ageing.
I can't imagine what the world will be like when reality hits these who strive for youth and perfection. They have lost the ability to see beauty within and also have empty hearts that can't see beauty in anyone.

Beauty is perception which is often encouraged by media and trends. In other countries a full figured woman is beautiful. Beauty is everywhere. Those who can't see beauty is a variety of ways miss out on knowing some wonderful people inlife.

It worries me that our world is becoming so superficial that we will lose what is true and right.

It can be a fall of a civilation to misdirect energy to empty and mindless strides to be beautiful and not see the varity of beauty.

It is full moon tonight........might be a good time for a move. *wink*

Answer 4

YES! I hate that every commercial has some type of impossibly beautiful woman or man. It's like what about everybody else? It's not like everyone looks like that. And even with those models who're overweight, they're beautiful as well. It just makes me feel fat, ugly, and below average. So I definitely am one who's self conscious. Unfortunately.

Answer 5

hell yes, that's funny because i always wanted to ask a question about it and i don't think ever did. People in this world period r so quick to judge the book by its cover and not worried about what lies beneath it. I don't let people get to me, i am who i am and if u don't like the way this cracker looks then kiss it, basically i have a care free attitude. It is b/s that people would put someone down because they don't live up to there standards, whats even more f*D up is the impact it is on the people who do get picked on. I watched my best friend near starve to death because her co worker would tell her she was fat when she weighed 110 lbs in the first place. i absolutely agree with u!

Answer 6

I like to think of myself as a more intellectual guy, won't get into the vulgar, low-brow appearance stuff. But, I gotta be honest, I think I pay alot of attention to physical appearance, not only in just fashion sense, but looking at people's friends, their jokes, how much they're laughing, smiling, looking at their beauty.

Yes, I do think it is related to the fact that people in this country are all about celebrities and physical appearances (Ex. US weekly & Showbiz Show on CNN)

Sometimes I wonder if it'd be different if I lived in some European village or in South America or something. And I think alot about how to overcome it, to not be affected by it. But I dunno. Got any ideas?

Answer 7

Your initial attraction to someone is their looks then you the other part is their personality...Had my husband not been my type I would have never went out with him.(I love blue eyes and hazel eyes..that is a must have)..You have to be physically attracted to someone..That is the case no matter where you go...Yes the us does put a lot of emphasis on looks but in Europe the body is admired..

My husband said it best..We gravitate toward a person of the same likeness (90% of us do)...I stay in shape, thin and attractive therefore I want someone of the same likeness..

I am lucky I do have genetics to thank but I am realistic..There is no way in hell that I would do someone if I did not find them physically attracted..

Answer 8

No not really.

I love myself when I get up in the morning,when I have the flu and Gastro.
My husband loves me that way also.

I'm not materialistic (never have been) and neithe3r is my husband.

I have never gone for looks,though I think my husband is the most handsome man on this planet...personality and more.

Anyway...people need to learn to love themselves first by taking time to look good on the inside before spending money on the outside.

The inside is FREE!!!

Once you have mastered that,you will start to see yourself in a different light and so will others.

Merry Christmas...sorry for rambling on.I hope I made sense.lol

Answer 9

What you said about some beautiful women being no different from fat chicks who eat hamburgers is correct because they take diet pills and make disgusting diarrheoa in public washrooms to maintain their perfect bodies while pigging out of junk food, fast food, and not exercising.
Anyone who eats junk food, fast food, and doesn't exercise will get fat.
Anyone who doesn't eat junk food, fast food, and exercise will have the perfect bodies.

Answer 10

the average american woman is size 14, and it keeps getting bigger, when men realize that curves, not cellulite and fat, but just a thick girl, is just as beautiful as a size 2. I am a size 10, and i am quite happy with my body, my husband, who is from europe thinks that i am the stuff life is made of, because i am not only beautiful on the outside, but the inside as well. beauty comes in all shapes , sizes and colors. don't go live on the moon, unless you take a thick girl with you :)