Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The Faux Beautiful People
We are assaulted by images of what we are told are "The Beautiful People". I am surrounded by beautiful people and they have no similarity to what I am being told is "beautiful". There's my friends who are bald and radiant while undergoing chemo, lopsided from mastectomy but perfectly balanced, scarred but not diminished by brain surgery, trapped inside a body with Lou Gehrig's disease and remains brilliant. Every line and wrinkle on gorgeous faces are a tatoo of remembrance; a dead child, failed marriage, beginnings and endings. Where are you "pretenders to the throne; you fake beautiful people?" I fail to recognize you as I am blinded by the rainbow of beauty that I call friends and family.
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7 comments:
I love the last sentance of your blog! I think I will print it out and put it on my desk at work!
Thanks "Nympho". You write some great stuff yourself that I enjoy!
GODDAMN woman! You are so eloquent, and for the record, I consider all the women commenting here today to be FUCKING GORGEOUS!
Seriously, you girls are my BEST work ever.
THAT, is truly beautiful. You should send that into, Dove for their beautiful women, campaigne.
Wow, truly, that was amazing and very eloquent.
Party Girl, thanks for taking the time to read my blog and make such a generous comment back to me. The pen (or in this case the keyboard) is truly mightier than the sword.
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