I come here today my friends not to bury John McCain, but to praise him. To share a tender loving family values snibble of time that I hope transcends politics. You see my friends the presidential campaign trail is long and hard, like a penis, and at one point on that long, hard, soul sucking, maverick busting into party yes man presidential campaign trail, John's loving wife Cindy came up to him, ran her beerlicous fingers through his hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." A moment of tender humanity in the loveless inhuman world that is American presidential politics. "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt" Is what John McCain said by way of reply. I'm not making that up. Three reporters witnessed it. God that's hot. I bet they had steaming sex that night. White-hot nuclear powered cuntaramic sex until that makeup ran down Cindy McCain's face like water through a hydroelectric dam. Which means it...
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But somehow we have lost the ability to recognize objective truth. And the courage to speak it!
If the West is to survive we will do so through our rationality.
If we cannot call fat and ugly fat and ugly. If opposites are true we regress to the circular logic of the barbarians at the gate.
Exactly.
It's been a foregone conclusion in advertising that the best way to get someone to use your product is to make them feel inadequate, less valuable, without it, so they'll buy it (you have wrinkles and are therefore ugly; this product gets rid of wrinkles; if you buy it you won't be ugly). Dove has had the courage to try a different tactic (still motivated by sales, of course, but they ARE run by a corporation) -- allow people to feel ok about themselves. Tell people that they don't need to change, and allow that reputation to sell their products.
I don't think it's "Western values" for women who don't fit a narrow stereotype to feel bad about themselves. I don't think there's anything "valuable" about an idea like that. If it's a "Western value," I think it's one worth screwing with.