Ladies.

[Zoom]

Hi. I would like to share with you all a particularly, hmm, let's say an image that I saw earlier and appreciated. Greatly.



Yes, yes? Yes. Mm hmm.

But. You see. This is Joseph Stalin.

BAM I JUST MADE Y'ALL FEEL BAD AND I AIN'T EVEN SORRY

[sapphire]

Bad people should automatically be unattractive.
On that note, Hitler was apparently great with children, loved animals, and was an amazingly talented artist. In fact, before he rose to power, he was a starving artist who sold his art mostly to Jews.

[A Mask Among Many]

The Irony!!! IT BURNS!!!

Sorry, terrible pun about a terrible thing.

Hmmm... I wonder if this means that all good looking or nice people will one day become evil masterminds of doom.

They should make a club.

[Zoom]

That's what freaks me out the most about Hitler actually...he was a mostly regular person who literally thought he was doing what was best for his country.

And you know what, good people should automatically be attractive!

...I had a friend in high school, absurdly hot, and in the last couple months before I graduated I realized I wouldn't even be friends with her if she wasn't so good-looking. Like if you took her personality and put it in a less attractive body, she'd be kind of annoying. And it had taken me two years to realize this! If you work backwards from there, you realize there are loads of ugly people being passed over just because of the way they look.
Anyway so now when I consider people I try to think of how much I'd like them if they were middle-of-the-road-looking. It's crazy how much it changes things. Depressing too.
And I think it's only going to get worse. Ever notice how the more insecure a person is, the harder they are on other people? And how focused our society is on beautiful people?

[Spectre]

Absolutely. It's really easy to pass over someone based on their looks- and I don't just mean for relationships. I know I've caught myself thinking that people must have lesser personalities or even values just because they're not as good-looking.

[Raphael]

These conversations are always interesting to me because I am really good at reading people and seeing their inner drives and motives and so I am a little judgemental about people. But normally I can see through them and since im not a very people person it helps me pick the few friends that I really want.

[the Red Dragon]

Okay, first of all, that Stalin picture wasn't good-looking to begin with, in my opinion. He needs to fix his hair. xP

After that, Zoom, now I'm going to try to imagine people looking different and see if that changes how I feel about them... good idea.

[sapphire]

This is why pretty people in high school can be nasty to everyone behind their backs (or to their faces) and still be called popular.
Also why my roommate freshman year of college could be nasty to her "friends" all the time and they still somehow chose to hang out with her. She was a model in her spare time. I took none of her BS, so she hated me.

[Zoom]

Yeah that's the other thing about that kind of pretty people, they're used to having people take their BS, so when somebody doesn't, it fucks with their worldview and they get upset.

[Raphael]

Don't you just love not putting up with people?
And I would definitely agree with Zoom here. Stalin looked really good

[Zoom]

On the other hand I have known several perfectly nice pretty people. Maybe it has to do with how they're raised?

[sapphire]

I'm convinced that that girl had some kind of mental issue, honestly. I mean, who sits there calmly eating salad and scrolling through webpages while their "best friend" is sitting next to them, crying? (Honestly, she did that. I could not believe it.)

I'm sure it has a lot to do with how they're raised. One of the nicest people in my high school was also undeniably gorgeous. I think the entire school considered it a victory when she won junior prom queen over the popular but mean girl. (And in my school, junior prom queen was the true prize, because winning as a junior automatically disqualified you as a senior. Winning as a senior was like second place.)

[Zoom]

Oh that is horrifying. I remember seeing a pro-sociopath website a while back, the most disturbing shit I have ever read. All about being wolves among the sheep etc. You're lucky you got out of that.

I love social victories!!! My high school was relatively small (about 850 kids grades 10-12) so there was a lot of overlap between the 'cliques'. Always neat to see a preppy girl go out with a thuggy boy. Or a hipster and a farm boy as best friends.

[sapphire]

Yeesh, that sounds terrifying.
I'm not sure she was sociopathic, exactly... We did a project on psychological topics in one of my classes last year, and one of my classmates did hers on different mental illnesses. One of them was not dangerous but fit my former roommate extremely well. I just don't remember which one it was.
She was a fashion major, anyway, so her ruthlessness will probably get her pretty far in life.

Yes, people breaking out of cliques is awesome. (I was one of those people who wasn't really part of just one, in high school. I played sports, sang in choir, acted in the yearly musicals, got great grades, edited our district's part of a magazine of student work that spanned several districts, and played video games a little. I was kind of all over the place.)

[Zoom]

Ugh I can almost imagine her. Ash-blonde, squarish face?

Man you were busy in high school!
Haha I was a bit like that, except for the sports. I was smart, but not academic. I was artistic but not in advanced art. I hung out with nerdier kids but didn't play video games much at all. I partied but hated drug culture.
Wish I'd been in the musicals though, seems like they'd be a great experience.