A moment of silence please - the last @msgivings article got a total of 112 flags. She/he has moved 9000 SBD to Bittrex - I think we've seen the last of him/her.
To help analyse these posts: I've hired an award winning author of 10+ books, 100+ films and adverts and 50+ advertising awards to give us his take on @msgivings.
@BSGivings
Number of flags: 7
Money earned: $593.57
Total words in original article: ≈ 660
Favourite response/comment to original article:
@kyriacos "I beg you. Stop shit-posting"
Favourite response of someone who missed the point that @msgivings was a bot:
@phanie90 "nice post.. i like barbie"
Too Much Ado About Physical Appeal
It goes without saying that every one of us grew up molded and groomed by the mindsets prevalent in our society. Some of these mindsets have stayed with us right into adulthood. Some of them were sold to us while we were grown or while growing up. It takes a lot of bravery and deep soul searching to free one's self from such a destructive cultural ethos.
Critics note
The classic journalistic error. “If it goes without saying…” then why are you saying it?? And I didn’t know that “mindsets” could groom. *** (I’m going to hire one as soon as possible and start a new cottage industry)***
This guys journalistic philosophy says one picture is worth a max of 100 words. Apparently the author is afraid he’s going to lose his audience, because he’s peppered his article with glamor photos, about half of which are Barbie Dolls and very underage girls. (No men; no handsome middle-aged people; no plus-sized women; no athletes; just young hot—too young usually—women, as in jailbait.)
One of the very harmful ones I would say is the need to be physically appealing. We grew up watching Disney movies, storybooks and even reading romance novels that beleaguered us with the physically "perfect" and picture-worthy people. People grow up believing that if they do not possess a certain body type or have a particular kind of facial structure, they were severely lacking. Beauty contests are held were size zero models with extremely long necks and legs were crowned queens and people hail them.... instilling in the minds of children and adults the model for beauty. For the men, washboard bellies, and the fictional tall, dark and handsome criteria has become a burden just too much too bear at times.
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A good point here, but simplistic and overly dramatic. It’s not harmful to want to be physically appealing. Plumage is innate in creature appeal at every level of species. Yes, we get the emphasis on “zero” size models. But that “size” only exists because we ramped up distaff size ranges so that some fat woman, pigging out at the Cheesecake Factory and blowing up to a size 14 can now walk into the GAP, order a size 8, and feel good about herself. And stop mixing tenses… It makes me…tense.
While it is of paramount importance to be healthy and look it and to be well groomed, and appropriately dressed for whatever situation, I think it is morally and psychologically wrong for society to continue to propagate this notion that if you do not look a certain way, then you are not good enough.
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The author makes the same point over and over and over again. (And he certainly likes women lying on the ground looking up at him. Well…why not?) Apparently we have to have a photo for every thought that comes out of this guy’s brain…
Children grow up with this kind of mentality and either become bullies of those who are "less of what they are" or become preys to those who feel superior. It might not go as far as physical bullying, but it could be psychological and emotional. Some children are daunted by the fact that they do not look "cool enough".
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Here we go again with Jonbenet Ramsey. Someone help this man with his problem!! (Just kidding. And yet it might have actually been poignant if someone had brought up that parallel of exploitation for discussion.)
The fashion industry and some pharmaceutical industries have latched on to this ideology and are ripping people off who will pay whatever the price for clothes, shoes bags, jewelries, fragrances, slimming pills, body creams and the likes in order to be as physically appealing as possible.
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It’s okay to make a point. But you’re swimming against the tide. Women in NOW and MS Magazine tried selling the natural look back in the 1970s, and it lasted for about five weeks. Women love glamor. So do men. Appearance is currency. And by unselling it, you are making the Muslim argument. Interesting.
It is so horrible that some people have gone to the extreme.... getting botox injections and even going under the knife for procedures like liposuction, breast and bum enhancement. Other people spend their days irrationally horrified about the prospects of getting old and wrinkled. Ageing is probably their worst nightmare! And then we have the ones who go under the knife to look like celebrities.
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Very accurate. Very true and gets to the core of the Author’s argument. Could have been expanded.
This is pop culture madness and needs to stop. When we look around us we see people who look exactly like dolls, some have been so altered that they are a far cry from their original selves. It is about time parents and the mass media begin to sell a more worthy mindset. One that doesn't rely so much on being picture perfect.
Critics note
It is also a tribal thing. Distortion to create beauty goes to the core of every civilization. From foot-binding of Chinese women to facial mutilation among Ubangi tribesmen, it is something of an evolutionary conundrum.
It is important for people to know that is alright to be flawed. It is alright to have scars, it alright if you are born with noses which aren't straight. It alright if you aren't so curvy. It is alright if you are not a certain height. It is alright to be yourself and to look the way you do!! You know why? Because individuality is the hallmark of humanity. It is our uniqueness that makes the world interesting and wonderful. It is our individuality that does not make the world a monochrome of boredom and repetition. We all have something to offer the world just the way we are. Instead of trying so much to look like another person, we could cultivate our own individuality; work on our strength, work ethics, talents and mojo.
Critics note
This is the best part of the message and should have led off the blog. And draw the parallel between beauty, inner beauty, and depth of character. Then build it from the inside out. Slamming attractive people and the need to be physically appealing, is more than naïve, it is also a touch hypocritical.
People who really care about you will love you more for more important things than what you look like. They don't need you to look a certain way to appreciate you. And if they do, then they are not worth being in your life.
You are beautiful, you are wonderful, you are perfect!
Critics note
Here we are talking about inner beauty and showing the most superficial “pretty woman” photo of all time… and underage at that. (Just a suggestion. Get some counseling ;-) And pick some photos with range and taste and that reflect the subject.
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