What To Do When Your Friends Are Brainwashed
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Everyone is “guilty “of telling at least one off-color joke in their lives. Everyone has poked fun at a friend or relative (hopefully in good nature). We’ve all participated in gentle jesting at the expense of others – whether we know them or not.
The line is blurry when it comes to “good-natured” when we start projecting our jests onto strangers. By-passers, friend-of-a-friends, that one girl from high school… enemies…
“She’s so gorgeous! Man, 10 more pounds and she could be a movie star.”
“Ohh, she looks so pretty – too bad she had a breakout on her chin.”
“That dress is lovely, if only it didn’t make her thighs look so big.”
Because beauty ideals have been promoted via advertising for decades, even our parents have the ideas of “perfection” programmed into their minds. What happens when that programing turns what should be compliments into backhanding pandering, and you notice the difference...but your friends don’t?
http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/what-to-do-when-your-friends-are-brainwashed
The line is blurry when it comes to “good-natured” when we start projecting our jests onto strangers. By-passers, friend-of-a-friends, that one girl from high school… enemies…
“She’s so gorgeous! Man, 10 more pounds and she could be a movie star.”
“Ohh, she looks so pretty – too bad she had a breakout on her chin.”
“That dress is lovely, if only it didn’t make her thighs look so big.”
Because beauty ideals have been promoted via advertising for decades, even our parents have the ideas of “perfection” programmed into their minds. What happens when that programing turns what should be compliments into backhanding pandering, and you notice the difference...but your friends don’t?
http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/what-to-do-when-your-friends-are-brainwashed
