dbgtz
11-03-2012, 09:48 PM
Recently if you haven't seen, there is a "most beautiful teen" contest (which is absolutely absurd) and I often see people comment or like pictures related to it. I often see people posting pictures of who they say are relatives saying "my x has x syndrome, like if you think they're beautiful". So that's where this thread stems from.
These sorts of things frustrate me mostly because the poster of it is clearly fishing for attention. But also because if the person didn't have said illness/injury then people wouldn't really give a stuff and would just say they're ugly. While I'm not saying the person should be insulted and tormented etc. and I do have sympathy, I think that saying they're beautiful is just unnecessary and getting other people to say that they are beautiful through the internet just adds insult to injury as it is just sympathy when they would probably want to be treated like anyone else. Having said that, they probably never know what their relatives post on the internet.
So does anyone else bow to the peer pressure of saying that they're beautiful, ignore it completely or directly comment on any picture which does this? It would be interested to see how people react to these pictures.
These sorts of things frustrate me mostly because the poster of it is clearly fishing for attention. But also because if the person didn't have said illness/injury then people wouldn't really give a stuff and would just say they're ugly. While I'm not saying the person should be insulted and tormented etc. and I do have sympathy, I think that saying they're beautiful is just unnecessary and getting other people to say that they are beautiful through the internet just adds insult to injury as it is just sympathy when they would probably want to be treated like anyone else. Having said that, they probably never know what their relatives post on the internet.
So does anyone else bow to the peer pressure of saying that they're beautiful, ignore it completely or directly comment on any picture which does this? It would be interested to see how people react to these pictures.