Unatraktiv

[queerbychoice]

Everybody's already heard about that whole annoying trend of communities like newnonuglies and nonuglygays and nonuglylesbians, right? Where entire communities are devoted to people submitting photographs of each other and other people voting on whether those people are "ugly" or not, and it's just the absolute extremes of everything shallow and degrading?

Yes, okay. But now I have discovered that there's also a community called unatraktiv, where people voluntarily submit pictures of themselves and compete to try to get voted "ugly," and they apparently get very upset and offended if other people refuse to call them ugly and tell them they're too attractive to be allowed into the community.

Also, everyone in it looks like they're probably totally conventionally physically attractive if they'd just stop making weird faces at the camera. But I guess it'd hurt their feelings if I told them that.

People are just strange.

Comments

[yay4pikas.livejournal.com]

People are very strange. And apparently rebelling against that silly standardized spelling thing.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

They seem to have realized that attractiveness can be mental rather than physical, and are therefore trying to make themselves more unattractive by pretending to be scary 13-year-old AOL users.

[cant-pretend.livejournal.com]

That's pretty hilarious stuff!

~Justin

[the-moonshiner.livejournal.com]

On top of that, the photographs people post in those communities are HIDEOUS in and of themselves. A photo of yourself isn't going to look any sort of flattering if you jam your face up in some weird angle in some shitty grainy webcam and take a picture in a dark room. Or turn up the black/white contrast really high to hide pimples. And the really sad ones are the people who photoshop their own entries.

I once saw these photos of this girl who'd (badly) used the smudge tool to get rid of under-eye circles and dry skin on her lips. Parts of her face looked like swirled, colored fudge. We all had a good laugh over that one.