^Nice.
I think also that movies, media, and, actually......facebook.....are promulgating this need to be beautiful or bust.
The thing is, that pictures/film/stage personas are not the sort of reality that we humans can live in all the time, nor not how we look irl. (think of a pic of a movie star without makeup, or how an actress/actor looks in their stage make-up up close)--it's just not REAL. Yet that is the bar we are setting for ourselves now. People tell me I'm attractive, but I take horrible pictures, and when I see the pictures I will then feel bad about myself. Pictures--the way that we do them--are becoming one of the most abused and narcissistic expressions of our collective lack of good-will, and, to me, represent a breakdown of our society because we are so focused on our facebook page that we care little about our neighbor's true well-being.
/rant