You must look like this or else
This is a fairly tepid ballad, I suppose, but a couple of lines deserve mention:
And every magazine tells her she’s not good enough,
The pictures that she sees make her cry.
The girls in Teen Vogue and Seventeen all looked and seemed so perfect compared to me. My friends even looked perfect compared to me. I couldn’t take a facebook profile picture that looked half as good as my theirs. I began to cover up the school photos of me my mom had plastered all over the fridge. Walking the halls in school was pure torture because looking at some gorgeous girl I saw always made me feel like crap. In fact, I could see something beautiful in everyone around me except for myself.
There are times when I think the two worst inventions of mankind are voice mail and the airbrush.
fillyjonk »
28 June 2009 · 5:17 pm
And reportedly, Farrah Fawcett didn’t like her teeth; she thought her smile was too toothy.
For the record, I don’t blame men for this phenomenon, though lots of women do. Women are far, far pickier and meaner about other women’s appearance than men are. Or perhaps men just aren’t catty enough to mention it.
CGHill »
28 June 2009 · 5:22 pm
I have long suspected that women are meaner to other women generally. (I remember a passage in a novel — can’t for the life of me remember which one — to the effect that “She paid her the ultimate feminine compliment: instant dislike.”)
Guys have their preferences, but those preferences get cast aside the moment the possibility of Something More presents itself.
fillyjonk »
28 June 2009 · 5:25 pm
Oh, I could share stories of female cattiness, but it would make me all sad to think of them again.
McGehee »
28 June 2009 · 8:20 pm
I looked at Marissa’s picture and I could’ve sworn she’d swiped an old picture of a girl I knew in school, my first genuine crush.
sya »
28 June 2009 · 9:24 pm
Hm. Insults from females completely roll off my back. I have very little emotional reaction to them. But from a guy–one told me I “looked like crap” a couple months ago and (even said half-jokingly) that still smarts.