by !MASPP

“You’ve been tagged!”

We’ve all seen them.  Maybe even received an invitation to participate.  We’ve maybe all participated in them.  Maybe not all but at least the simple ones, like asking about favorite movies or odd things people don’t know about you.  Either you’ve done it here or on MySpace, LiveJournal, Yahoo!, Chat rooms, and so forth.

I am posting this article to expose them for what they are: Questionnaires for Sexual Predators.  No matter who composed the games, online predators are reading kids’ answers and making note of them to find the right victims to harass, stalk, and someday assault.

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Good-looking people are not to be admired in the sense of being idolised / honestly!praised for their good looks as if they had accomplished something worthy of idolatry. Because they have not.

For the most part, physical beauty of the aesthetic kind is largely determined not by skill or hard work or various praise-worthy traits, but rather by a series of lucky genetic accidents. I mean sure, it’s arguable that physical beauty is influenced by factors such as a nice personality etc., however that comes through in demeanour, not just appearance, and I’m talking purely about appearance — and in terms of people with beauteous appearances, there is not a lot that is genuinely praise-worthy in the sense of ‘good job’ type praise. With this claim I’m generally talking about faces, though, not bodies or whatever, because I completely accept that having a good body is often the result of something genuinely praise-worthy e.g. possession of the willpower to maintain a healthy diet, athletic determination and skill, etc. But face-looks? Not so much. Sure, there is some aspect of praise-worthy effort involved such as maintaing a good diet (helping with complexion etc) but not nearly as much as for beautiful bodies (barring those envy-causing people who are unhealthy sedentary shits but somehow still have good bodies … that are probably not fit but still please the eyes). In terms of gorgeous drool-worthy cheekbones / eyes / lips / jawlines / proportions etc., unless I am massively failing at life, most of the beauty in those features is determined through your luck in the genetic code-writing lottery.

In addition to this, I would also like to make the assertion that good-looking people should not be idolised for the reason that their good looks do not make a hugely meaningful contribution to society — beyond giving  us something nice to look at, that is. I’m not saying that appearance doesn’t have an impact on society, because that would be a grossly incorrect judgement; for example, physically attractive people often receive perks/favouritism that less genetically-blessed people do not. A kind of reverse discrimination. Nor am I saying that physical attractiveness doesn’t have a role to play in society, because I cannot possibly be sighted enough to recognise good looks but not to notice the behemoth industry of modelling and etcetera. What I mean is that good looks do not make very much of a greatly beneficial impact on society or in interpersonal relationships. Not in the way that intelligence does. Not in the way that resourcefulness, compassion, initiative, determination, loyalty, and a myriad of other positive traits could do.

Therefore, there is no reason to truly admire good-looking people as if they have accomplished something great. Admire in the sense of appreciate, sure. Compliment, of course. Envy — perfectly understandable. But to laud, as we would laud the talent and skill of athletes, artists, musicians, writers? With the same awe with which we treat those who are freakishly clever, commendably hard-working or incredibly kind? I think not.

…That said, however, there is no way that I am going to stop appreciating the aesthetics of certain incredibly fetching specimens of humanity. No freaking way.

(C’mon, I’m studying a visual communication / graphic design degree, did you expect anything less?)

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1. You have no problem with the gender wage gap. But you hate having to pay for dates.

2. You insist that it’s a scientifically proven fact that men are stronger than women. But you complain about society believing that it’s worse for a man to hit a woman than for a woman to hit a man.

3. You believe that the age of consent is unfair and that there’s nothing wrong with having sex with teenage girls. But when you find out that a teenage girl enjoys sex, you believe she’s the biggest slut in the world.

4. You hate when a woman automatically assumes that a man is a douchebag before getting to know him. But when you like a woman who likes another man, you assume he’s a douchebag just because he’s not you.

5. You believe that if women want equality, they should be drafted into the military. But you also believe that the military is not a place for women.

6. You hate when women assume that men are like wild animals. But you believe that a woman who doesn’t cover up and make herself invisible to men is just like someone wearing a meat suit around wild animals.

7. You hate the fact that men are bullied for not conforming to their male gender roles. But when you find out that a man disagrees with your beliefs about women’s rights, your immediate response is to try to emasculate him by comparing him to a woman as an insult.

8. You hate when women assume that there are no nice guys. But you call yourself a nice guy and act like it’s a rare quality that should cause women to be all over you.

9. You hate when women assume that men just want to get laid. But when you find out that a man is a feminist, you assume that he’s just doing it to get laid.

10. You hate when women make generalizations about all men. But when a woman calls you out for being sexist, you claim that all men think like you.

11. You insist that women should be responsible for protecting themselves from being raped. But when they follow the one piece of advice that actually works, which is being aware of red flags, you complain about them assuming that all men are rapists.

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