Hello again, it's Greggary Peccary, the trendmonger extraordinare! Quite a word, that one. How often do you get a chance to use that word? Very rarely these days, unfortunately. That's okay, I will take any commiseration offered. Another word you rarely hear! Oh my stars and garters!
Does anybody still wear garters these days? I saw one for sale on T.V. at work on Sunday. They make women's bodies look all hot and shit; as long as they're wearing clothes. Soon as they take that shit off, the pudgy gut, flat unappealing ass, and droopy tits come roaring right back. Not that I'm condeming these women for aging: we all age and our bodies began to change in pretty negative ways. And like I have any room to talk of pudginess! It's just the hiding of, the ineffective denial of imperfections in the body.
Again, this is something that only gets worse with time. And it always falls harder on women than on men. Oh sure, these days, with the more modern, more feminised man, looks have become something they obsess over just as much. Or maybe they just do it more openly now. Either way, it isn't getting better, it's getting worse.
What can you do when you are assaulted by images of beauty constantly? What should a ten year old girl, who might have a pudgy gut, think about herself when her favorite teen idols are damn near perfect thanks to a combination of good genetics and thousands of dollars of work? There are girls that are ten throwing up to lose weight to look like Brittany Spears (well, before her weight gain, rough aging thanks to partying, and generally creepiness). The Olsen twins are likely to die before they hit thirty. They're all drugged out, weigh a hundred pounds combined, and already look like fourty five year old bar skags. And they are barely in their mid twenties.
What is this all about? This is a pretty generic post in a lot of ways. A lot of people tend to rant about this stuff, and I don't really have anything to offer, by means of explanation, or a "solution" to the problem. Basically, there's one thing I have to say about this, from a trendmonger perspective:
Obsessing over trivial imperfections in the body is a trend that is definitely on the rise.
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