Truth & Beauty: Pretty

Friday, August 26, 2016

Pretty

I feel like people sometimes resent other people who are beautiful. And this impacts their own ability to enjoy that beauty, as well as the beautiful person's ability to recognize and revel in their own beauty. Thinking you're beautiful when you're not is one thing (although this is subjective), but what's wrong with acknowledging your own beauty, and benefiting from it? You're not "full of yourself" when you're athletic and you decide to join a sports team, or when you're smart and you decide to go to college.

Presenting myself as an icon of beauty - I'm not saying to the world that I am a wonderful human being simply because I am beautiful. I'm not even saying that I am smart, or athletic, or kind, or even fun to hang out with (although some of those things might be true - but I'll be the first one to tell you that not all of them are). I'm just saying that I'm beautiful.

And it's not because I think I'm beautiful - although I do, now. But I didn't always. It wasn't until other people told me that, that I began to realize it. And then I started to foster it, and capitalize on it, like anyone would do with any other talent. To quote Elle Fanning's character in The Neon Demon, "I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't write... no real talent. But I'm pretty, and I can make money off pretty." And what's wrong with that?

I hate to use this cliché, but don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Enjoy my beauty - I share it with the world not to make people like me (even though I like it when people like me), nor to make people jealous, but because beauty makes me happy, and I know that this is true for other people sometimes, and I want to use what I have to make other people happy too.

And I'd love it if we could all be happy together, instead of being jealous and petty, and thinking to ourselves, "oh, he's so pretty, I just hate him. I wish I was that pretty." Believe me when I tell you that whoever you are, you have traits that I envy, too. I am not a perfect human being. But this is one part of me that shines. Can you let me have that?

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Words of Wisdom

"Seeing a nude and thinking sex does not create sex in the nude."

"In a free society, what one encounters in the public square ought to be challenging, not comforting."

"Beauty should be a celebration, not a competition."

"Morality is what is right. Ethics is what are rights."

"I do not support a feminism that promotes war between the sexes, much less a war on sex itself."

"Beauty isn't everything, but it is something."

"Nudism is about nudity. But not all nudity is about nudism."

"A man cannot control his erections. But that does not mean he is controlled by them."

"Without content, there'd be nothing to sell. But content isn't what sells. It's the selling that people buy."

"Porn is not a monolithic entity - it is a vast and varied medium."

"I want people to like me; I don't want to become whatever it is people like."

"Diversity is the natural product of liberty. Resentment of diversity betrays a fundamental opposition to the principle of liberty."

Inspirational Quotes

"Rather than love, than money,
than fame, give me truth."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt..."
- Oscar Wilde

"Just because it is now, baby,
doesn't mean it should be."
- Stonefield

"Let us not talk falsely now;
the hour is getting late."
- Bob Dylan

"I look for truth and find
that I get damned."
- Tim Rice

"Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them.
So I try to forget it
anyway I can."
- Neil Young

"The smallest minority
is the individual."
- Ayn Rand

"They're gonna talk to you,
and talk to you, and talk to you
about individual freedom.
But they see a free individual,
it's gonna scare 'em."

"Well, it don't make
'em runnin' scared."

"No, it makes 'em dangerous."
- Easy Rider

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
- Michelangelo

"We do not believe that the happiness of individual men, and the good of the total social organization, is ever furthered by the perpetuation of ignorance."
- Kinsey et al.

"What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness."
- George R. R. Martin

"Yes, I am a libertine, that I admit. I have conceived everything that can be conceived in that area, but I have certainly not practiced everything I have conceived and certainly never shall. I am a libertine, but I am neither a criminal nor a murderer."
- The Marquis de Sade

"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."
- Thomas Mann

"I think that women seldom appreciate the pervasive power of the male sex drive, so are constantly caught unaware. They choose to think that men look at pinups, sexy movies, and women in general just to annoy women."
- Piers Anthony

"The sexual act, successfully performed, [is] rebellion."
- George Orwell

"I think it's important to point out that there needs to be a conscious separation between the act of making art and the art itself. I always say that the best way to fight bad ideas is with good ideas. ... Not letting people access ideas or art is not the right answer. Things that are unknown are impossible to fight."
- Betsy Schneider

"Unfeeling, heartless creator! You have endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind."
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

"Touching boobs and rubbing fronts doesn't make you feel shitty; mean jerks make you feel shitty. If there weren't any mean jerks, it would be fine."
- Lola, from Big Mouth

"Oh beautiful, why are you so blue?
If you could only see the way I see you."
- Joe Bonamassa