Monday, December 20, 2004
Hmmm. straits time is publishing blogs. I hope they are seeking permission from teh authors first, after what happened with Drsheep.com.sg. they really shoudl have some regulation on author's rights. but i suppose thier logic is that if you're ok with putting up your thots ( or as lz says . emotional masturbation) up on the web for the world to see, there is no rationale for you to get angry if they popped it in your local paper.
THe press is sometimes an irritant i find. LIke with that recent case where the baby and the maid fell off the 23rd storey. THe press staked out at the funeral wake, and accousted the grieving family. Even after the family declined to give comments, the press skulked around, hanging on to every snitches of conversation they could catch. It was pretty revolting. But I guess their behaviour can be explained because of the public's sadistic obsession with death and the whirlpool effect death has on the human emotions.
that weighty issue
I just watched this program yesterday called the Swan. Where a couple of American women who have serious serious image problesm ( both mental and physical) are taken in and given a revolting amoutn of plastic surgery and gruelling exercise regimes. They go in as "ugly ducklings" and emerge as "swans". ( i quote from the hosts) And at the end of it al, they get to flaunt their new bodies on the catwalk.
THe camera zooms in on numerous unflattering shots of the weeping women in their full ungroomed glory and the narrator gives you their huge sob story.. here's a couple. Gets ribbed at for being the ugly kid in school, lousy sex life with husband, insercuirities about how attractive they are, and ( horrors) hearing your own father telling the teacher not to expect too much out of you. Wow..
THen bring on the surgical team.. nip and tuck, break and mend and lo and behold.. the new swan emerges.
THe camera than treats the audience with shots of the woman staring disbelievingly at their new figure and face and squealing with delight. Oh boy. Watching their infectious display of delight, it makes me almost wanna have plastic surgery too. And then you see them parading down the catwalk and their husbands and bf's cheering them wildly.
Wait a moment. Did i say husbands and bfs??
Yez, despite all their bad looks, bad teeth and blotchy complexion, most of these miserable ladies actually had guys who fell for them , and even married them. Some of them underwent thiz change because they felt that their unattravitve looks were threatening their relationship. Look gals, if the dude could even fall for you , pimples blubber and all, in the first place... looks aren't the factor that is gonna keep your relationship together. And if looks were a factor.. the guy isan't worth 2 pence. yeah, i know guys are visual creatures.. that's a fact c'mon, i hear my guy frens rave about chiobus half the time, it's audio torture at its peak. My guy fren told me.. Guys genearlly go for tall, thin, willowly gu niang types with long hair... brain being optional and i agreed whole heartedly with him. But i also have to grudgingly admit tat there a few down to earth ones out there ( altho' they are mostly taken up).. i still recall a conversation with anther one of my guy frens that impressed me ( despite all my bitterness and cycnism about guys and male behavoiur)
He jokingly said to me, that i and another 2 of my gal pals were hot. ( he muz be needing new glasses)
so I teased him .. " oh . so your gf must be the hottest of them all!"
" nah.. she's not hot."
" haha.. you've gotta be joking. tell me you're joking, or i'll complain to her!"
His face grew serious as he said firmly, " A guy may lust after females coz their hot, but a guy doesn't fall in a love with a gal coz she's hot. He loves her for everything else. "
WHOA.. I wanted to check if he was on drugs. But yez ladies.. there are still guys who go for more than wat's on the surface. ANd these ladies form the Swan show were obviously one of those who managed to catch one of these down to earth guys who loved them for "everything else"
And yet, they are among one of the most miserable wrecks I"ve seen. I disagree with teh show's concept that you're giving them a new lease of life. I think you're placing too much emphasis on outward beauty and encouraging males to view all ladies as sex toys. ANd you're starting this ladies down on the path to BDDom. ( body dismorphic disorder). They don't need plastic surgeons, they need a therapists to open up their eyes ( WITHOUT PLASTIC SURGERY) and urge them to see their loving supportive husbands and kids.... THese ar eth ppl who love you no matter what you look like.
THe media sure doesn't help with promoting inner beauty.. i think china held a contest too where the contestants were all plastic surgery modified. Flip the papers , any papers.. and you'll see zillions of ads promoting slimming. I was quite frustrated reading streats.. every page had a gorgeous, scantilly clad lass with a svelte figure. I codun't even concentrateon the articles.. i was too busy comparing my own dumpy figure to their willowly one. Flip , flip flip.. Ah ha... ! I sighed with relief as I gazed upon a page wihtout the female silloutte splashed across it... It was a hunky guy instead.. but running my eyes down the page, my gaze rested on the words below. " Male slimming sanctuary"
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
" there are 3 types of guys left in our age group... the can make-it but taken ones, the can make it but too shy ones, and the cannot make it ones." - Mew.
" There are 3 types of guys left in our age group... the taken, the gay and the cannot make it ." - me.
THe press is sometimes an irritant i find. LIke with that recent case where the baby and the maid fell off the 23rd storey. THe press staked out at the funeral wake, and accousted the grieving family. Even after the family declined to give comments, the press skulked around, hanging on to every snitches of conversation they could catch. It was pretty revolting. But I guess their behaviour can be explained because of the public's sadistic obsession with death and the whirlpool effect death has on the human emotions.
that weighty issue
I just watched this program yesterday called the Swan. Where a couple of American women who have serious serious image problesm ( both mental and physical) are taken in and given a revolting amoutn of plastic surgery and gruelling exercise regimes. They go in as "ugly ducklings" and emerge as "swans". ( i quote from the hosts) And at the end of it al, they get to flaunt their new bodies on the catwalk.
THe camera zooms in on numerous unflattering shots of the weeping women in their full ungroomed glory and the narrator gives you their huge sob story.. here's a couple. Gets ribbed at for being the ugly kid in school, lousy sex life with husband, insercuirities about how attractive they are, and ( horrors) hearing your own father telling the teacher not to expect too much out of you. Wow..
THen bring on the surgical team.. nip and tuck, break and mend and lo and behold.. the new swan emerges.
THe camera than treats the audience with shots of the woman staring disbelievingly at their new figure and face and squealing with delight. Oh boy. Watching their infectious display of delight, it makes me almost wanna have plastic surgery too. And then you see them parading down the catwalk and their husbands and bf's cheering them wildly.
Wait a moment. Did i say husbands and bfs??
Yez, despite all their bad looks, bad teeth and blotchy complexion, most of these miserable ladies actually had guys who fell for them , and even married them. Some of them underwent thiz change because they felt that their unattravitve looks were threatening their relationship. Look gals, if the dude could even fall for you , pimples blubber and all, in the first place... looks aren't the factor that is gonna keep your relationship together. And if looks were a factor.. the guy isan't worth 2 pence. yeah, i know guys are visual creatures.. that's a fact c'mon, i hear my guy frens rave about chiobus half the time, it's audio torture at its peak. My guy fren told me.. Guys genearlly go for tall, thin, willowly gu niang types with long hair... brain being optional and i agreed whole heartedly with him. But i also have to grudgingly admit tat there a few down to earth ones out there ( altho' they are mostly taken up).. i still recall a conversation with anther one of my guy frens that impressed me ( despite all my bitterness and cycnism about guys and male behavoiur)
He jokingly said to me, that i and another 2 of my gal pals were hot. ( he muz be needing new glasses)
so I teased him .. " oh . so your gf must be the hottest of them all!"
" nah.. she's not hot."
" haha.. you've gotta be joking. tell me you're joking, or i'll complain to her!"
His face grew serious as he said firmly, " A guy may lust after females coz their hot, but a guy doesn't fall in a love with a gal coz she's hot. He loves her for everything else. "
WHOA.. I wanted to check if he was on drugs. But yez ladies.. there are still guys who go for more than wat's on the surface. ANd these ladies form the Swan show were obviously one of those who managed to catch one of these down to earth guys who loved them for "everything else"
And yet, they are among one of the most miserable wrecks I"ve seen. I disagree with teh show's concept that you're giving them a new lease of life. I think you're placing too much emphasis on outward beauty and encouraging males to view all ladies as sex toys. ANd you're starting this ladies down on the path to BDDom. ( body dismorphic disorder). They don't need plastic surgeons, they need a therapists to open up their eyes ( WITHOUT PLASTIC SURGERY) and urge them to see their loving supportive husbands and kids.... THese ar eth ppl who love you no matter what you look like.
THe media sure doesn't help with promoting inner beauty.. i think china held a contest too where the contestants were all plastic surgery modified. Flip the papers , any papers.. and you'll see zillions of ads promoting slimming. I was quite frustrated reading streats.. every page had a gorgeous, scantilly clad lass with a svelte figure. I codun't even concentrateon the articles.. i was too busy comparing my own dumpy figure to their willowly one. Flip , flip flip.. Ah ha... ! I sighed with relief as I gazed upon a page wihtout the female silloutte splashed across it... It was a hunky guy instead.. but running my eyes down the page, my gaze rested on the words below. " Male slimming sanctuary"
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
" there are 3 types of guys left in our age group... the can make-it but taken ones, the can make it but too shy ones, and the cannot make it ones." - Mew.
" There are 3 types of guys left in our age group... the taken, the gay and the cannot make it ." - me.
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