Friday, December 29, 2017

A Demoralizing Form of Clickbait

Life can be hard at times; and most of us are not Home on the Range. We get discouraging words. Sometimes they're in the guise of what seems to be wise advice. But there's a cost. This so-called advice makes us question ourselves and doubt unnecessarily.

There's the point: There is a cheap and easy approach to writing an internet article: Compile an arbitrary list of things that people of a specific age (usually 30 or 40) should not wear or do. And be as bitchy as possible about it!

The moral for waste of time articles is: 'If it is bitchy, they will read it.'

Choices of women's clothes or accessories are often taken to task in these articles. Here's the usual suspects: yoga pants, miniskirts, bikinis, Uggs, F-M shoes, knee socks, scrunchies, large hoop earrings. and the like. Here's a representative list of fashion no-nos for women over thirty.  But guys are not immune: here's an article about what guys over 30 should not wear. These articles are simply subjective opinions; there is no hard and fast real life rule.

Well, guys: you might not emulate Johnny Depp in your sartorial choices.

But in general, I'll channel the Second Amendment purists on this one: They can take away my scrunchie when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.










9 comments:

  1. Those are just junk articles.

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  2. I. . . . . . Food for thought on so many levels, Angel! Thanks Honey

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  3. From the article - "I don't know at what age it is acceptable to let your booty hang out."
    All ages. And 10 votes for mini skirts and short dresses.

    I wear cross trainer shoes every day. They're the only shoes I've got.

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  4. I don't pay no attention to them frickin' lists.

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  5. Yes, dress as one wants. Hopefully relatively clean and weather appropriate...

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  6. One should dress as one likes ... but one should also consider the overall effect, which may not be what one imagines!

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  7. My mom's thoughts on dresses and mini skirts has always been that women's clothing should be like a good speech -- long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting.

    She never had much advice for us boys, but we never had much choice, either -- jeans and t-shirts were the only options.

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  8. So what's so wrong with scrunchies?

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  9. What are F-M shoes?

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