Hello you gorgeous bunch.
Yes, yes I know. It's been a while hasn't it? I do like to keep you all chomping at the bit.
Wondering 'When oh when will I get to read such an insightful piece of literature? I have absolutely no idea what to do with myself, I think I will just lie down here and chew on this piece of carpet until the all knowing one comes forth and imparts her knowledge'
Worry no longer. I'm here to impart.
So, something that I have been thinking about a lot recently is beautiful women. Not in the sense that I have been single for so long it may be my only option, more in the sense that I can't seem to escape them.
It
is difficult to go anywhere at the moment without being poked in the
eye by images of stunningly beautiful women. Ridiculously unbelievable beautiful
women. On billboards, on buses, on TVs, at the cinema.
This
in itself doesn't particularly bother me. We are all more than aware that executives have a firm belief that we as
human beings are incapable of buying something/watching something/existing unless we
see a stunning woman every twenty five seconds. I personally won't touch any product unless I know that at one time it was touched by a size four, blonde haired, blue eyed Goddess. It's just the way I was brought up.
No that's fine, what does bother me is
the massive inequality that we are subjected to.
The men in adverts, TV programmes and films are decidedly, on the whole, pretty average.
They are allowed to be homely, dare I say on quite a few occasions overweight? They are allowed to not have chiseled jaws and emerald eyes.
Don't get me wrong, yes you see that of course, but the ratio is very unbalanced.
Think
about the films and TV programmes and adverts that you are enjoying at the moment. How many times do
you see an average looking, homely guy, with lots of personality going out with a disgustingly beautiful woman.
Woman aren't allowed to be 'homely' or dare I say it overweight, unless
it is part of the plot. Unless she is the best friend, or if she will at some stage be transformed into an absolute stunner so these average guys can FINALLY be attracted to her.
The people who can be blamed for this inequality, as they can be blamed for most things in life that are evil, are the producers and executives. I can think of two reasons why they are casting such mismatched couples.
1. They are male and not overly attractive themselves, so they have created their own universe where beautiful women fall over themselves to be with a quirky man. Hopefully this will then make it so.
2. They honestly believe that men will turn over and watch something else if they don't have a woman with model good looks to encourage them to try to lick the TV screen
The only thing this practice manages to achieve is making women feel exceptionally inadequate and men believe that they are entitled to expect no less than supermodel looks from their girl regardless of their own physical prowess.
It means that women, who have less than supermodel looks are being looked over because guys think they can do better. Telly tells them so. And telly is always right.
I hope of course that I'm wrong and men are cleverer than this. But subliminal messages are often stronger than we think.
It would certainly explain why I am sat here drinking brand named cola I don't remember buying and contemplating suing someone for an accident I haven't had.
