For myself I personally do. But only because I am no longer christian and I value vanity, egoism, individualism, and extreme nonconformity. From a christian perspective it is a huge no no, but like I said I am no longer christian.

There is an extremely great looking girl (probably the best) on my friends list who had a post today asking her friends if there was a better way to make herself puke. lol I forgot what that phenomenon was called, but I am sure you girls know. So she obviously does. And that would obviously not line up with "godliness". But that would also not line up with my selfish values either because if she loved herself more then other people she would not do that. I would consider her a people pleaser.

Parsimony, yes I believe the bible does say that. TOOTLES! :)

@Parsimony@xanga - 

@PD - @Parsimony@xanga - Actually, yes. Its all over the book of Ecclesiastes.

 (Some versions may say something more like "meaningless". )

@avrilrullz@xanga - You put a lot of weight on chicks being attractive and you call yourself Christian.

Best oxymoron ever.

but take out the oxy because that's what you are.

I think it's dangerous to choose our enemies in life and blame them all on Satan because it allows us to totally miss the problem at hand. When we look at magazines with all the pretty airbrushed females on the covers and the often superficial *trend* articles found inside, we're seeing capitalism at work. Over the past few decades the female has become the target of hugely profitable markets and she has been targeted very effectively. It's plain and simple. Make her feel like she's missing something and then tell her you've got that something she's missing and watch the profits soar. You're not alone. It happens to men too. I've been surrounded by "metrosexuals" for years. 

I saw something very interesting last night on TV...a head on collision crash test. One of the cars was a modern automobile. The other was a car from the 50s or 60s. The crash test dummy in the modern car was well protected while the crash test dummy in the old car was not. Outside of a miracle a person in the old car would have been killed. The point of the demonstration was that without government safety regulations we'd still be driving around without the protections we see in cars today. Seat belts, airbags, mandatory child safety seats, crush point impact technology have all been instituted not because they were profitable but because of government oversight. The reason I bring this up is that there are many who still believe that when the market is left unregulated the best interests of the consumers are the result. I can only surmise these people slept through the autumn of 2008. I worked on Wall Street for one of the big investment banking firms. I can tell you the people at the top knew what was going to hit the American people long before it happened but they did nothing to stop it for years because they were able to keep lining their pockets at the inevitable cost of everyone else. Another example of the dangers inherent in an unregulated free market now appears so obvious that it's unimaginable today that it actually happened. I recently saw the video from only a couple of decades ago in which the leaders of all of the tobacco companies sat shoulder to shoulder in front of Congress and one at a time they each said "I do not believe that tobacco is addictive". Meanwhile, decades before their own internal research had proven tobacco is highly addictive.

How does that relate to your post? You are a major target of almost uncountable markets, behind which are people for whom profit is the goal and your well being is merely consequential. The government can't regulate articles written in mags like Cosmo, we wouldn't want it to, and I doubt it's going to make airbrushing illegal anytime soon. It's up to the individual to understand one's inner worth and thereby immunizing ourselves from the 24/7 carpet bombing of Madison Avenue. 

@avrilrullz@xanga - You said something was wrong to do to a human being, yet you do it anyway and don't change it. Do you not see the hypocrisy in your own paragraph?

I'm for balance. We can't run away from the fact that somehting in us wants to embrace beauty because God made us in His image. Have you heard the song 'You are beautiful beyond description? That refers to God. I believe that ugliness is alien to our nature because it's of the devil and was never part of God's original creation. Having said that, I believe we can also lose focus when we over-emphasize bodily beauty at the expense of our souls. Beauty should flow from the inside. That's the most enduring form.

@avrilrullz@xanga - I'm not saying this is a good thing--in fact, I think it is pretty messed up.

we definitely do put a LOT of weight on girls to be attractive and beautiful. Being realistic, I have to say, a girl has
to be attractive to even be a consideration.  You may think this is
shallow, but it would be a lie to say otherwise.

-you

The end.

Dumb ass.

Meh, accept yourself for what you look like, God has never made a single mistake. Be true to yourself, because at the end of the day its you who has to live in that body.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - I don't get your point. I don't see why your attacking people on this subject. We have all judge someone physically in one way or the other. Maybe not out loud but we had thought about it, if you haven't then congrats! I've never met someone like you. I've seen many guys who are with girls who in my eyes, I don't consider them pretty  but once I get to know them, they have a great personality to back them up. Yes, I don't agree with those who straight up go for the looks but I also thing that we have the rights to be with someone that we think it's cute, just as much as we should give a chance to those who don't appeal to us. Us as girls should take care of ourselves, not for other people but because we love ourselves to the point that we don't want to be looking like a mess.