i recently reread a phillip k dick anthology and was grotesquely amazed at what a horrible writer he was, but what good stories he came up with.
anyways, he has this story that is set in the FUTURE where people had become so aclimatized to the adverts of nice teeth and deodorant and whatnot that society had broken down to two separate political parties: one for the removal of sweat glands, the perfectness of hair, and the artificial whitening of teeth and the other party for, um, i guess being slobs.
they would beat each other up, and stuff. i really don't think he was a good writer. his dialogue is painful. anyways.
sometimes i feel an irrational need to put on deodarant, and sometimes i see someone who has plucked their eyebrows off and then drawn them back on with a pencil and i want to break something, like fred durst's head.
does anyone else watch America's Next Top Model? that show is, um, something. anyways, they have(had? not watched in a couple weeks) a normally sized human being contestant this time.
at one point, one of the criticisms for that contestant by the panel was that she was trying to act like a skinny model. the main model chick was all "when you interviewed, you were all 'i'm me, and i'm happy yada yada', why are you all acting like you are somehting you are not where is the person i met yada yada".
everything else aside, which is a lot given the nature of the show i know, i think that's pretty telling on the state of "beauty" in our society.
someone who is comfortable enough with their non-standard model body goes on to a modelling contest show and is all "i'm comforable with my body!!!" yet when the crunch comes down and she starts doing modelling stuff, she's not all that comfortable with her body.
me? i shower with a blind-fold on.
everything else