The non-sequitur post from hell. If I was paying for an opinion, I'd fill out a survey or log into a Dr. Phil forum, or ask a friend. When I check-out at a store, all I want to be asked is, cash, credit or check? "Should you really be buying pretzels", wholey Foods clerkcunt asks. Between us, Glutino Pretzels are gluten/vegan free noshies ta'die for, and one of the greatest organic, diet worthy, health conscious foods created. Not to be eaten every day, but if you want to feel like you're having a real snack on a Saturday afternoon or whenever, they're delish. Back to clerkcunt. "How is the food I buy any of your business?" I asked. "I see you in here a lot and you always buy fresh veggies and fruit. I assumed you were on a diet. Why sabotage yourself?" I walked right over to a manager and said, "Your clerk is stalking me." After explaining what happened, he apologized. We walked back over to clerkcunt. The manager said "Ap...
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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.