When do standards become snobbery?
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When do standards become snobbery?
| Sat, 04-29-2006 - 12:50pm |
Where do you think the line is drawn between simply having standards for a mate and being a snob about who you'll associate with?

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I'd never thought of it as "morally corrupt" to accept too much, but that does make sense.
I hate makeover shows...HATE them. They tell people to look a certain way and that there is a certain way to look. If someone likes the way they look and noone else does, then more power to them, they have the guts to dress a way noone else likes but it makes them happy and that is all that should matter.
As far as being morally corrupt by expecting too much. That depends on what you expect. If you expect someone to rob a bank to pay for your personal desires...thats morally corrupt. But if you just want someone who looks exactly like Brad Pitt, that is unfair to men you meet but I dont think it is necassarily "morally corrupt"-that term is very, very harsh.
No, I don't think that those shows promote snobbery. And, to disagree with supersexy, I don't think that they make everyone look the same necessarily. In truth, the only one that I watch is What Not To Wear. It seems to me that they really try to make each person look the best that they can look. Not everyone is going to come out of that show equally beautiful or looking the same, but they all come out of it having learned to best emphasize their own attributes. And it seems to help a lot of people with their self esteem which is great.
Building on my earlier notion of expecting no less and no more than we have to offer, someone who does not look their best is, in theory, not really living up to their own potential and living in a state of undue humility. Looking (and feeling) their best is a great thing and not expecting more than they are capable of. In fact, it is living up to their own potential.
Now - that is the TLC show. When it comes to things like The Swan where they give them cosmetic surgery - that's a whole different ball of wax.
And maybe the term morally corrupt is harsh. But aiming for too much AND too little is considered a vice.
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