comments... "You look disgusting...

[1monster]

[jonno99]

1. Thanks - what a great reminder that beauty has VERY LITTLE to do

with one's external appearance.

And fwiw, only someone who is truly beautiful could endure with such grace the above experiment...

[randys1]

2. NEVER happen to a man NEVER

stunning video

[Hoppy]

6. WRONG ! Pete Townsend recalls his father looking at him,

Don't worry, Mate. Looks aren't everything.

[randys1]

7. LOL Would trade my very rugged good looks to be him, I think...yep

[demwing]

19. Once, when I was 13, a client told my father that I looked like him

Dear old dad replied "Yeah, you live with someone long enough you start to look alike"

Love you too, you self absorbed mean old fuck...

[Qutzupalotl]

17. It happened to me when I was a boy,

only there was no internet and they said it to my face.

[TygrBright]

3. "How you look is the most important thing about you" said no Dad to his teenage son, ever.

I remember finding my cousin crying in the garage because she wouldn't wear the heavy zinc-oxide ointment that was prescribed for acne back when we were kids, and her Mom told her that she'd never be popular unless she did what she was told, to combat the zits.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure my aunt didn't mean it the way it sounded, but when you're an adolescent there's not a whole lot of room for exegesis.

Back then, we all knew it was looks that mattered anyhow.

It's changed some, in fifty-plus years.

Some.

A little, anyway.

In some places.

For some purposes.

Limited ones.

cynically,
Bright

[demwing]

20. You've never met my father

wish i were you

[onehandle]

4. The Internet is full of trolls.

'The Verge,' a rather crummy link bait tech news site today 'turned off comments for a couple of weeks.' I applaud this, but it should be permanent.

You would not believe the hate speech that crops up in even the most seemingly innocuous places.

[drynberg]

5. Obviously, the Internet is way beyond so many nasty folks, trolls is a name I don't use, why?

Trolls are storybookish and "quaint", these assholes ain't storybookish nor cute.

They need to be shunned by all except each other, in fact their photo's should be required to post...y'know these dreaming guys living in their parent's basement or whatever...

We humans have become "lapped" by our very own technology in many ways, but this is perhaps the most grim.

Thanks for posting, food for though, as least those of us who can think...

[jtuck004]

8. You are young. Should look up a guy named Martin Luther King Jr. While in jail for, essentially,

the color of his skin,

The lesson is contained in what happened when pastors he thought were his friends told him to quit his passion, give it up. An office of the Federal government, the FBI, sent him a letter encouraging him to commit suicide because "it would be the right thing to do".

You can look up the letter he wrote from the Birmingham jail to the people he thought were friends that should have stood with him. You can read other sources about the rest.

The lesson is that the only person who controls how you feel about what someone else writes is you. The weak allow themselves to be hurt.

One has to learn how to be strong enough and sure enough of yourself that you make the choice and own it. Not the writer.

[jonno99]

9. +1

[1monster]

12. Just FYI: I am near sixty (OMG! How did THAT happen?!) I just posted this because I thought

it was something that needed to shared.

I am not the beauty in the video.

[jtuck004]

13. I should have been more clear. My comment was to her, and anyone who thinks what

someone writes to them can have any power they don't give it.

And 60 is in my rear-view mirror. Kinda happy that I made it this far.

[Hoppy]

21. That message was the essense of EST training, back in the '70's.

Maybe a hundred or so would be in the room for a couple of days. People would start talking about the shit in their lives. Many times tears would fall. After a day and maybe 1/2, there would be fewer and fewer tears and these would be replaced by laughter.

Of course, not everyone got it. But if you were one of the ones, who did "get it," it was freeing.

[Hulk]

10. My first wife wore very little make up....

...and she was always beautiful to me. Her skin wasn't perfect. She would get blemishes and touch them up. She might wear a little blush sometimes...just a hint. She did use a bit when we were going "out"....but I always told her I loved her no matter how she looked. It wasn't because her skin was so perfect. It was because we valued the health of her skin, no matter how it looked.

We have had friends who wore so much make up, it was like putting on a clown's face every day. I can't imagine. My current wife doesn't wear an awful lot, but she is so self conscious about how her skin looks. I have to give compliments every time I see her so that she can understand she is beautiful no matter how much or little she puts on. To try to compete with the air brush models on the magazine covers is unreal. It's not who they are, even. It's a myth.

Wish all women could accept themselves for who they are. When I saw the beginning of this video I thought she was beautiful then. Would help if she had confidence in herself and smiled a bit, but she is so fortunate to have the facial features that are desirable by everyone. Blemishes come and go. Your eyes and smile are what sets you apart.....in my humble opinion.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Makeup is hell on the skin...

when the wife asks if I want her to put any on, I say no. Not only is it hell on the skin, but it is hot as hell in Texas.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Try Vegas.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. It's a dry heat...

just like my oven

[niyad]

22. it is dificult for women to accept themselves for who they are when we have entire industries

and culture devoted to telling them just the opposite. they aren't pretty enough, smooth enough, thin enough, etc,., etc. whole magazines devoted to telling them if they wear the right (expensive) clothes, the right (expensive) makeup, the right (expensive) perfume, the right (expensive) shoes, use the right (expensive cleansers), the right (expensive) cleaning agents, etc. etc. etc.

don't blame the women when the culture tells them 24/7 that they are NOT okay as they are.

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. Beautiful and Brave Woman Speaking Truth To Those Who Misuse Power!

[wildbilln864]

18. very powerful. thanks. n/t

[azmom]

23. Makeup costs a shitload of money too.

I say do whatever the fuck you feel like doing. Life is too short to live it for other people.
Judgmental people will find something wrong with you anyways. It's better to just not give any fucks.