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[HR-Beau]

I have self-esteem, which is pretty amazing - because I’m probably somebody who wouldn’t necessarily have a lot of self-esteem as I am considered a minority. If you’re a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you’re a person of size, if you’re a person of intelligence, if you’re a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. It’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support, anywhere, especially women’s and gay men’s culture. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless.
You know when you look in the mirror and you think, “Oh, I’m so fat,” “I’m so old,” “I’m so ugly,” don’t you know that’s not your authentic self? THAT is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards – all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard-earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around cream that doesn’t turn around shit.
When you don’t have self-esteem, you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really want to go for. You will hesitate to ask for a raise. You will hesitate to call yourself an American. You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote. You will hesitate to dream.
For us, to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

-Margaret Cho
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[Brokyn]

Yeah, if that's offensive.. take it to mean cigarettes. That's the ticket.

--William

[Edit:] Wow, I totally forgot to include why I posted the image to begin with. I had the sudden curiosity if things like this offended the mass majority of people here. I would think most people could find the humor, but you never know how people will react sometimes. And this thread seemed to be kind of the appropriate place to pose the question, given that it dealt with peoples' self-esteem (which, to me, includes finding the humor in common perceptions).
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[Brenton]

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[HR-Trevor]

LOL, thanks for sharing your artistic talents, Brenton.
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[HR-Arden]

Thanks for sharing, Beau... that was nice. <3
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. -- Bilbo Baggins

[Brenton]

There was spaces and stuff that made it look better, but they're not there except when I try to edit it

[Brokyn]

Yay for CODE tags.

--William
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[Nelle]

... I kinda think I need to print that out and paste it to my mirror.

Thanks Beau
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[HR-Beau]

Its definitely something for _everyone_ to think about.
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If there is one thing in the world that I know, love conquers all, it trancends time and space, defies all odds, and can bring you back from the darkness, it is the guiding light that helps bring you in from the rough stormy seas of life, and it remains even after you have gone.
~ Adam ~

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