When did THIS become hotter than THIS?

I've got to say that I disagree with this. Why does everyone have to be beautiful? Sure, I won't argue if you said everyone is unique. But everyone has different standards of beauty and while everyone might be beautiful to someone, but suggesting that everyone has some universal beauty is both naïve and facile.

Are you going to tell me that every child is intelligent? In the States, yeah, maybe. Is there any reason that Fairfax County, Virginia wouldn't have the highest test scores when a student is allowed to retake any test or assignment until he or she gets the desired grade? Let's face it. Most of you, and most of your kids are average. Some are above average, and some, by definition, are below average.

Let's celebrate what makes each other unique rather than succumb to mediocrity. Not everyone is a superlative at everything.
-wtk

I agree. We're all good at different things. I would never consider myself to be beautiful (don't get me wrong, I totally think I'm cute :laugh:), but that's not how I've been blessed. I'm an amazing singer, and if I keep working hard, have the voice to be able to sing at the Met someday. That's far more important to me than having someone tell me that I'm beautiful.

thank you! was going to post this myself - it puts everything in to perspective really - things change, perceptions change, and really none of this is about "healthy" its about being hot - and personally, that's not what I am in this for..

I think I could post a picture of a chipmunk and the thread would somehow turn into an argument.

"I like Alvin"

"*kitten* Alvin, his ego is too big and he's anorexic because he only east 1400 calories a day"

"Well Theodore is curvy but doesn't eat his exercise calories so he's doomed to stay the same weight FOREVER"

"Simon is too tall and lanky, he needs to weight lift, but he has nerdy appeal"

This.

Very Nice!

With photography

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

LOL! Those cavemen liked it for some reason.

And if this is what primitive woman looked like... I'm not so sure I want to be following the Caveman Diet! :laugh:

mmmmm.. paleolithic porn!

So hey, what's up? As the creator of the 'They're all beautiful' image, I thought I would jump in and explain the image a bit.

I made the graphic in response to the original, offensive one that was floating around Facebook. It pissed me off to no end because I am tired of this body-shaming crap that hurts ALL women, only serves to divide us against each other and make folks feel badly about themselves.

I DO believe everyone is beautiful -- skinny, curvy, healthy, sick, young, old. I believe this because I do not think that beauty is only physical. You might read 'beautiful' literally, that beautiful can only be what we can see. If that's what you believe though, you're saying that an elderly person cannot be beautiful. Someone who is disfigured cannot be beautiful. Someone with certain kind of disabilities cannot be beautiful. Is that really how we want to define it? Is that really the kind of world we want to live in?

I suffered from an eating disorder for over ten years. I hated my body, I hated myself, I hated everything about me. I couldn't see any good in myself, beauty or otherwise. And any time someone would tell me that I looked gross, that I wasn't beautiful, it just confirmed all the things I already thought and validated my belief that yes, I deserved to be punished. So the next time you slam someone for being sick, whether it's for being too skinny or too fat, think about what you are saying. Compassion goes a long way and you'd be amazed how a kind word can help.

So, you are right. Some people might not be traditionally attractive, some people might even be hard to look at but we are ALL beautiful.

After that initial image, I made some more that more clearly expressed my opinion on that matter.



The rest in the series are here: http://whirligigagogo.wordpress.com/we-are-beautiful/