The Lounge: Official Spamzone Community Thread

The unrealistic body image thing doesn't effect everyone. To those whom it does effect there are certainly issues. A 12 year old (gender really doesn't matter here) seeing someone with a very muscular body, or one with almost no body fat could mess with their own self image or self esteem. However, a fair point should be made that nobody can give you self esteem/worth. If that is the case, then why do we allow other people to take it away? The porn industry, or all the other things that unfortunately effect some people mentally is probably never going away. So we should focus on what can be changed (or rather what can be more easily effected). How about teaching children/young adults that your body image doesn't matter unless it happens to be a part of a business path you choose to pursue? That's fair, and sure this won't work for everyone, but when it really comes down to it...self esteem is something that is decided by the person who has (or lacks it).

For instance, in high school I wasn't really happy with my body. Through the various health conditions I had, this made exercise quite the bitch to do. So my self esteem was in the tank. Over time, I learned that I shouldn't really care what other people think about me. I am not a model, never will be. So the way my body looks doesn't matter in the slightest. So I stopped worrying about it.


I know this is something that a lot of people really don't like to hear. However, when you go deep into the culture of modeling, or body building for example, people talk about how there is a lot that you can control. With hard work (actual hard work, which in this day and age seems to have a skewed definition to it) you can eventually reach your bodies maximum potential. However, that means that you could end up losing out to somebody else who just had better genetics than you. So I think the problem isn't that certain industries are painting "unrealistic" pictures (metaphorically speaking) of what a person can look like. I am pretty sure the problem lies in the importance that those pictures (again, metaphor) are given.

If someone tells me that some victoria's secret billboard takes away the self esteem of millions of young girls every day. I am not denying that. If you take away the billboard, however, that doesn't fix the problem. There is always going to be someone who is better than you in some way. Sometimes its knowledge, sometimes its genetics, sometimes its how they manage their body. That is a rough fact of life. How about we just stop caring about what other people look like??? It really isn't that hard. I see these advertisements too, and do I give a crap about how big this girl's boobs are or how small of a stomach she has? No. When I see muscular guys who are more attractive than I am, do I feel bad? No. Fact is, nobody can give you that confidence, or rather nobody can give you the ability to accept yourself and we really need to stop acting like that is how the world works.

Another example. I went through 10 years of playing trumpet and being the best in my grade throughout my schooling, and I almost never practiced. I was just naturally good at it, and when I did practice (which I did more towards the end of my playing "career") I achieved quite a lot. So is my genetic predisposition to be talented at music fair? No. Is life going to be fair in every single way? Hell no. Sometimes you need to work harder than the next person, and that sucks, but that is just how it is.

note: this is a lot of rambling and may or may not be entirely related to your post. So if you are like...wow luxord is mean to me. Nah I am just rambling, we cool.

 

♛ 4 more days until DaishoCon.

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Oops, I'm only on episode 2...

Maybe I'll pick it up over winter break.

 

The Biggest Heel in video game history, screw you if you disagree.

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*Crashes through the window*
'Sup guys

 

Linkle <333

 

It amazes me how many people fail to read signs. Especially in retail establishments.

I mean, a big bright neon green sign right at eye level that says 'DOOR IS LOCKED DUE TO STRONG WIND. PLEASE USE OTHER DOOR.' in big black letters.

And people still try to open the door. And insist on telling me the door is locked.

 

Today in the Yakima area: https://www.facebook.com/kimatv/posts/10153363218209958

We were affected when we went by there around 2:45 PM (which had been going on since about 1:00 PM). It put the commuter about 10 minutes behind schedule.

 

So I've lost my internet for a few days. BUT! My family found a work around and I can now use it until are **** is probably repaired! Sure it cost me $20 and it is slow as hell but I'm not going to complain!

 

Why is it down?

 

staying at a friends house and a cat walked in. we have a cat now. im catsitting while she's at work tomorrow. khv send help or wisdom we don't know what to do other than take it to a place when we get the chance

 

Avoid getting infected by the parasites.

 

I had a client once fishing me for some info about a bike, I told him to find and read the specs himself because I couldn' t just drop what I was already doing. He just stood there and parroted his previous sentence, as if he hadn' t heard me the first time. Got the same answer again. The third time he made it clearer he wanted me to read the info for him, and he was quite obviously pissed off at this point. I started wondering what the flying **** was going on.

Turns out the guy couldn' t read. And like all people who can' t read (there are more around than you' d expect) he was doing his best at hiding that fact. Not the kind of thing you boast about.

 

It's dead here.

 

Noice contribution m8ty

 

Someone had to kill all the crickets.

 

We're all dead on the inside ._.
(the skeletons wait inside us .-.)

 

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Ih hey long time no see, how's it been?