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That was a great article, I know of a few girls that I'm friends with who have eating disorders, and they don't need to lose weight. The only people who need to lose weight are those of us who are overweight to the point of that you'll soon have to worry about health problems (that's where I was at the beginning of the summer before I decided to go on my "diet"). I do know that in my school, it seems that the girls seem to be more harsh against each other than guys are toward them. I do know though that a lot of the "popular" guys (either jocks or guys like that) do tend to be more critical of a girl's appearance than those of us who are regular kind of guys. Then again, I know guys that will get picked on if they don't go out with a girl who fits that "mold". I got a lot of teasing for going out with this one girl, and it was just because she was a little short, some people need to look past someone's outside appearance and it's imperfections and get to know these people. Pretty much, a lot of people are assholes who are ruining people's lives by setting this somewhat impossible vision of what they should be instead of who they are.
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Post by Mechanical Thought »

Personally, I don't think shortness is an "imperfection" ... seems like a harsh word for such a trait. But, I'm too lazy to get into it.
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Imperfections make people perfect. The more someone strides to be "perfect" the more they see themselves as "imperfect."

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there's no such thing as perfection nor is there imperfection. things are just the way they are.
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Wow, I must be perfect.

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girls are so harsh on themselves, in most cases a natural girl who is confident in her self, and has a high self-essteem is hot no matter what they really look like. Of course there's such thing as thinking you're a bit to hot too, that's a HUGE turn off for me.

Anyways, point is i knew several girls in highschool that had several "imperfections" but were still very attractive, almost more so then other girls because they were unique.
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Girls are harsh on themsleves. Probably because we've all had an encounter with that odd guy who really does think girls need to be perfect, and thinks he should share that with anyone and everyone. Unfortunately, that leaves us thinking that all guys are like that.
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I hate guys like that...well not just guys, people who are like that period.

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Post by Gimme_Shelter »

Mechanical Thought wrote:Personally, I don't think shortness is an "imperfection" ... seems like a harsh word for such a trait. But, I'm too lazy to get into it.




i like short women, like 5'3'' or something

whos saying shortness is an imperfection
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Yeah... most guys I've heard talk about preferring a certain height tend to like short girls.
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short chicks kickass for a simple reason
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Gimme_Shelter wrote:
Mechanical Thought wrote:Personally, I don't think shortness is an "imperfection" ... seems like a harsh word for such a trait. But, I'm too lazy to get into it.




i like short women, like 5'3'' or something

whos saying shortness is an imperfection

haha I am exactly 5'3"
oh and yea, guys tend to like the shorties, which works out because girls tend to like men taller.
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Post by I AM ME »

Attitude is where it's at.


A girl with great attitude and personality, and nice hair does it for me.




I like hair ok! Leave me alone!
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good

"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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Whoa random revival of my topic! W00t.
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Post by I AM ME »

I don't really know what new to say, i kinda summed my feelings up here


I AM ME wrote:girls are so harsh on themselves, in most cases a natural girl who is confident in her self, and has a high self-essteem is hot no matter what they really look like. Of course there's such thing as thinking you're a bit to hot too, that's a HUGE turn off for me.

Anyways, point is i knew several girls in highschool that had several "imperfections" but were still very attractive, almost more so then other girls because they were unique.
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good

"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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happening fish wrote:Whoa random revival of my topic! W00t.


revived by a n00b on her first post!
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Noobs always revive the strangest things...
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<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>

<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the <font color="#FFFFFF">world</font>...</font>

<font color="#B1DFDE">You may say I'm a <font color="#FFFFFF">dreamer</font>, but I'm not the only one, I hope
some day you'll join us, and the world will <font color="#FFFFFF">live</font> as one.</font></center></font>
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Lets hope they don't revive my bird poop thread.
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I bet that noob aint a noob at all!
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