tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441090040344969738.post3912239400574368315..comments2024-02-05T18:32:33.711+10:00Comments on One More Plate: Literature in the Classroom Assignment: Part 1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441090040344969738.post-43007511922425626202013-11-21T01:29:08.712+10:002013-11-21T01:29:08.712+10:00Remembering all generalisations are wrong I still ...Remembering all generalisations are wrong I still agree with your declaration.<br />When I was an ugly scrawny little thing and getting more than I should have I was happy being an ugly scrawny little thing.<br />Once I started becoming better built all I saw were the imperfections.<br />When I stopped going for aesthetics I stopped caring as much how I looked and became happier again.<br /><br />I think the thing that defines intelligence is understanding how little we truly know and how good it is not to know things so we can continuously learn.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10179937235851567496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441090040344969738.post-58667091644739813032013-11-20T08:53:36.096+10:002013-11-20T08:53:36.096+10:00In the following spiel, I'll be making some ve...In the following spiel, I'll be making some very broad generalisations, typecasting and stereotyping. I'll also be using questionable definitions of beauty and smart.<br /><br />Beautiful people are generally insecure and hypercritical of their beauty, just as smart people are generally insecure and hypercritical about their smarts, because being beautiful or smart is not just an accessory to our identity, but it's critical to our identity. Because of this, anything that threatens this trait is a serious issue for us. For the smart person, just passing a subject at uni is a personal failure -- you need a high distinction/honours/7 score, and anything less than this undermines your identity as a smart person. For the beautiful person, just having people look at you without being offended by what they see isn't good enough -- you need to look "perfect" and get constant reassurance that you do in fact look perfect. There's always some imperfection in the body. To the average-looking person, the beautiful person' mild flaw brings them down from 100 to 99, and by doing regular maths, we assume that this is a difference of 1, which is insignificant. What we don't realise is that the difference between 99 and 100 is actually infinity, as there are infinite fractions between 99 and 100. Thus, beautiful people legitimately get insecure about things that the rest of us don't even notice or care about, and hate their bodies (and thus, themselves) for things that we didn't even think were things. They go out seeking the approval of others in order to feel good about themselves. We call them "attention seekers" and "cam whores" for their antics, thinking: "she knows she's beautiful, she just wants attention." But in reality, a lot of beautiful people really don't think they're beautiful, and really are desperately craving evidence of approval of others to reassure them that they are in fact beautiful, thus sparing their identities.Ryan Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13887593933721853641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5441090040344969738.post-1126340105859390352013-11-20T02:53:14.222+10:002013-11-20T02:53:14.222+10:00I can see the marketing side to this very severely...I can see the marketing side to this very severely eradicating anything good in it. Dove is a cosmetics and personal care company so they want people to think that beauty is of paramount importance.<br />As someone who did used to literally rely on my appearance for work, when I was younger and better looking I see some but very limited merit to this. I think this is especially true of it affecting the jobs we go for, if you need a certain image for the work it matters but in all fairness most of the time it doesn't, this is true of both genders.<br />Self image is key and that is what the ad is trying to make you think they are selling but if this was true it would be for therapy not beauty enhancement. Reality is the most perfect looking people are often the most critical and will know every flaw on their entire body. As such classical beauty rarely comes with confidence, more often paranoia.<br />I would say the other area of bias is getting someone to describe another they have just met to a stranger. The social convention would tell us what we say will be fed back so we will give a positive account even if they thought the person was a repulsive hag.<br />I don't like the way things like this are presented as being nice to people while so evidently meant to make them more critical to buy more of their product.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10179937235851567496noreply@blogger.com