Ok i've had several run-ins with pop culture that have really just mad me mad/depressed/etc...
First of all and friend of mine (a girl) and i were looking through a copy of maxim (actually reading the articles) and such when i realized how much i had been out of the "pop-culture" loop i was (and glad to be). At one point she asked me what i thought of this one girl in the magazine (for those of you that know the magazine can guess what she was wearing). I replied that i thought she was alright, but not all that attractive in my opinion and she was shocked at my reply stating that most girls in the country aspire to look like these girls. so i responded by stating that these girls are so made up and so fake that it was almost like they weren't really human anymore, more like a grotesque overemphasis on what society thinks women should look like. She was rather shocked at this statement i must say, which got me to thinking about that whole situation. Later that night i attempted to watch joe millionare (i was hoping to see the girl smack the crap outta him for not being rich
) but after 10 minutes i just couldn't watch it anymore i was so disgusted with it. They took this show that exposes the greed and shallowness in our culture (which could have been an awesome show) and just kinda forgot about that and turned it into a sappy romantic show that toys with peoples emotions and doesn't even comment on the situation which is plaguing our society.
So anyway, i've been thinking about this a lot and i've come to the conclusion that we have created a system of self-perpetuating failure in two different ways. First of all we have these models whose entire life focuses around their looks, spending exhorbitant amounts of time making themselves look as good as possible, and then the media passing that off as what girls should look like, which is of course impossible for the ordinary girl (the same thing applies to guys, just in a little different sense), so these people then see themselves as a failure when they don't "measure up." The second way i see a failure is that there is an emphasis on exactly what is unimportant and a de-emphases on what is important. These models spend their lives working on their looks! it just boggles my mind that they would devote so much to that which doesn't matter (i'm talking religeously and just in life in general), and yet you never see an emphasis on what is important.
When i was talking to my friend i realized what it is that so many girls seem to lake out here, and what it is i've been looking for and that is realness. i'm tired of all the carbon copies of these fake people and instead just hope to find someone who is real in life. am i the only person out there that feels this way?
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