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I’m Glad I’m Not a Celebrity

I just saw the headline of an article about some celebrities who were cute as children but grew up to be ugly. I didn’t read the article for two reasons: first, because I’m not interested in stories about celebrities and second, because I’m not interested in stories that are written with malicious intent. What purpose is accomplished by singling out people and making them the objects of ridicule? Apparently, these celebrities’ only crime is that their looks didn’t last through …

What Fairy Tales Taught Us

Most of us grew up on fairy tales and we went on to reading them to other kids, those we babysat for and those we parented. Most of us took something from those stories and let them influence our lives in subtle ways.

The story of Cinderella is a classic example. Little girls listened to the words being read to them and in their subconscious mind they waited for Prince Charming to sweep them off their feet and carry them off into the sunset, knowing that they would never have to worry about anything because their prince would take care of everything.

How Clothes Define Women

I’m from the old school: waste not, want not, so it has always bothered me that women make such a big production out of people seeing them wear the same outfit more than once. Where do these expensive garments go? Even if they get donated to a charity, it’s still a lot of money to throw away for one wearing, even assuming you have gobs of money to throw away. In many circles, women have different outfits for breakfast, for …

kiddie Pageants

It was bad enough when we had beauty contests for women, and generations of women developed body issues and eating disorders because they didn’t look like Miss Whatever. Now we have children, just past the toddler stage, competing in these same ridiculous beauty pageants. These poor children are being deprived of a normal childhood. Instead of learning to live in the real world they are being trained to expect special treatment and all they have to do is look pretty …

Vanity, Thy Name is . . . Man??

We are so obsessed with beauty that we spend more money and time on our appearance than we do on anything else. It used to be that women were the ones who spent tons of money on beauty supplies and services. No more. Nowadays, when I go to my hairdresser I’m just as likely to see men having their eyebrows darkened and their hair bleached, dyed, highlighted, and curled, as women. I’ve known for many years that men go for …