The Kingdom of Pretty Must Be Taken By Storm

this is how nazi germany started

But what’s needed is a much more radical democratization of physical beauty, a democratization we can achieve not by changing the definition of beauty but by changing ourselves. Looking nice is something we need to take back from the elites and make once again a broadly shared, everyday attribute, as it once was when people were much less likely to be fat and much more likely to dress decently in public. Good looks are not just an endowment, and the un-American attitude that looks are immune to self-improvement only breeds the kind of fatalism that is blessedly out of character in America.

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xpost no really i had the wilson center website bookmarked like in 02

haha what??

another geek wishing it was the old-timey days when men wore hard leather shoes and women wore them stockings with the seam up the back!!

On the other hand, whoever wrote this is clinging to this traditional view of how people should look and dress, what gives?

The flip-side is that when you purposefully dress down -- esp. way WAY down -- for something, it feels kind of illicit and can be taken to express all kinds of flippancy, contempt, haste, whatever, depending on how it's done. Good times!

All that said, I am without a doubt guilty of going to the corner sto' in my PJs.

Also: "dressing down" not to be confused with "dressing casually but with my own particular flair/style", which is at least evidence of intelligence and creativity, if not necessarily consistent taste!

You know what's nutty is where - in these glossy magazines, celebrities are ridiculed for going to the market in sweatpants. As if it is their job to never have any sort of personal life.

So, somebody saw someone in "pajamas" buying milk at the corner store. If anything, the fact that it troubles them so much is proof of their weakness. And underneath all of this is an obsession with morality. Morality, as opposed to ethics or conscience or any of those concepts. The underlying message is "you're NEVER trying hard enough," and what is that? It's Calvinism.

I think this Daniel guy is trying to send a message to his significant other!

Good thing (or is it a bad thing)? for you I survived the "accident".

And I have NO IDEA what the lauren/warmleatherette thing is about. Nothing to do with me, pal.

this is very very funny to me. It makes me think of electropop album/song titles, like, "Sperm-retaining Orgasms for the Symmetically Enhanced"

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it's kind of impressive! (in a paranoid schizophrenic sort of way)