STS: using standards of beauty to manipulate others

[turtledude23]

Ra: I am Ra. You are correct to a great extent. Perhaps the most notable exception is the attitude of one already strongly polarized negatively towards the appearance of the body complex. There are those entities upon the negative path which take great care in the preservation of the distortion your peoples perceive as fairness/ugliness. This fairness of form is, of course, then used in order to manipulate other-selves. May we ask if there are any brief queries?

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I think we have all seen examples of this in the mass media. Tv shows, movies, gossip mags - all good looking thin folks.

historically, the standards of 'fairness' have been most harshly applied to women. For guys, if you were rich, it didn't matter how 'ugly' or old you were, you were in.

recently though, this notion of 'fairness' is being increasingly applied to young males. I've read stories recently where guys feel the need to have 6 pack abs, go to the gym and take steroids, have cosmetic surgery etc to feel like they have a 'chance' with the opposite sex.

the manipulation is subtle ... and is all about presenting the 'ideal form' in the media. People then start having self-esteem problems, putting themselves down, cutting themselves. STS is laughing.

are you seeing this as well?

It's a phenomenon as old as civilization, the only difference now is we have more free time to court the opposite gender and do much less physical labour in our day to day lives so there's more potential to worry about appearance and it's harder to achieve them (for males). I'm tempted to say there's more emphasis on looks for females now than before because of advertising and fashion magazines however I recall a video I once watched of a sociology professor who said there's a correlation between how unfair a society is and how much a member of it needs to conform in order to live comfortably. So viewed from that perspective this is the first time in history women can dress however they feel like, take the female protagonist from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for instance, do you think any female could dress like that 60 years ago in even the most liberal of democracies? Never mind dictatorships hundreds of years ago.

Also I want to add that anyone we see in mainstream media is probably not very polarized in either direction, the entities which have heavily polarized in either direction would abhor and avoid media attention, those who want it are tadpoles who think they're whales.