Epic way to spend your Friday night Matt. He also gives his views on American Idol and SimonFriday, September 15th, 2006
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3:25 pm - Extreme makeover.
This show runs at around 2AM and sometimes I find it on TV at about the time I would normally be going to bed but I stay up and watch it. There was a love story on it last night and I fell asleep before finding out what the candidates looked like at the end.It looked like I was opposed to the show somewhat here:
http://mattcanning.livejournal.com/177574.htmlRya speaks about a similar show:
http://de10tion.livejournal.com/24322.htmlI despise Simon from American Idol lol.
But I don't think I'm against this show. What's important is that the producers pick good psychological candidates for the show. Plastic surgery isn't wrong in any blanket manner. It depends on the person. Some people should not be getting it. Some people should not be eating ice cream or playing video games. It doesn't necessarily mean those things are bad just because one or two people abuse them or can't handle them from a psychological point of view.
Now some people are violently opposed to this show. Some are perfectly happy with themselves and lucky them! No wonder they don't understand the feel good aspects of this show since they can't relate to people as perfect as them. Whatever happened to the aphorism "Don't judge a book by its cover." Well here's a little bit of news: people DO judge a book by its cover ALL the time. Better looking people are treated with more respect from others, get higher paying jobs, are assumed to be more intelligent, more perceptive, and pretty much favoured in every other way related to having a good life. The people in this show aren't inherently lacking in self esteem or self confidence - it is the REST of the world that has the problem. Some of these candidates ARE strong people and do everything they can to live a happy and fulfilled life. It's not their fault that the entire world judges them based on physical appearance.
Just do a test for me: doll yourself up and walk around in public and on another day do everything you can to make yourself look as bad as possible. Now tell me where you find more people holding the door open for you, or extending you courtesies, or anything else for that matter. Under what circumstance do you get the most attention from the opposite sex? Self confidence, being happy with yourself, etc, has little to do with it. Better looking people have better lives and get more respect from others. Now I guess my question would be: does this show just propagate more of this mentality?
This all said it would be nice if everyone reading this can gain one thing out of this: people really are nicer to better looking people. Stop that. Chances are pretty high that this applies to most people reading this as it applies to most people in general. Make it a point to only look at a person's personality. I am absolutely conscious of this and have been for years. It really is more of a subconscious thing. Although there are many times when physicality does reflect personality, e.g., physical fitness. Plus as zermatt pointed out, when a person is attractive it reflects on there being something right on a genetic level with their DNA. But when people slop on tons of makeup or wear fancy clothes it really doesn't reflect anything about their personality in a good way.