Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Famous People

This notion that conventionally attractive people, that people who are thin and beautiful by society’s standards, that FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO ARE CONSTANTLY IN THE PUBLIC EYE, aren’t subject to the very standards of beauty they’re measured by, makes no sense to me. The idea that a person in possession of conventional beauty is not allowed to have low self-esteem when they’re inundated by the same images and words we all are at all times. That these people can’t make jokes or react with their gut because it “influences young girls” is outrageous. Influences young girls to what? Defend themselves if someone’s making fun of them? Be angry about the way their bodies are talked about? Who knows. If Liam is your young girl’s role model, then I don’t know. It’s a flimsy pillar to have if it can be knocked down by things like this. The news cuts off the heads of fat people walking down the street and shows the footage of it at dinnertime. The news is everywhere every day.

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