~Operation Beautiful~

What do you love the most about yourself?

My body	3.8%	[ 64 ]
My brain	16.3%	[ 274 ]
My personality	27.5%	[ 463 ]
Everything!	21.1%	[ 356 ]
Nothing	21.6%	[ 364 ]
Other	9.7%	[ 163 ]
Total Votes:			[ 1684 ]

[Starlurk]

Also, I assume that most of the people who will go in there will just be people trying to defame the thread. So don't bother surrounding yourself by that negativity. 3nodding

We don't need to be defended. Our actions speak for ourselves.

[Kiss Me Im English]

laurenwithoutsound

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/lifestyle-discussion/operation-beautiful/t.56476043/

uhmmm troll attack?

No, he makes a relatively good argument.

[Kiss Me Im English]

Also, anyone willing to educate me on the actual point of this thread. The OP came off as... well I'd rather not say.

[pigeonsoup]

No 44 Lucifer Morningstar

Also, anyone willing to educate me on the actual point of this thread. The OP came off as... well I'd rather not say.

operationbeautiful.com is the point of this thread, basically. we want people to appreciate themselves for who they are.

[Kiss Me Im English]

laurenwithoutsound

No 44 Lucifer Morningstar

Also, anyone willing to educate me on the actual point of this thread. The OP came off as... well I'd rather not say.

operationbeautiful.com is the point of this thread, basically. we want people to appreciate themselves for who they are.

Why exactly? No one knows who they are, and not everyones beautiful. I most certainly am not beautiful and I would be both arrogant and ignorant to claim such a thing. It seems more like an attempt at constructing an authoritave on subjective aesthetics, which seems contradictary really.

[pigeonsoup]

No 44 Lucifer Morningstar

laurenwithoutsound

No 44 Lucifer Morningstar

Also, anyone willing to educate me on the actual point of this thread. The OP came off as... well I'd rather not say.

operationbeautiful.com is the point of this thread, basically. we want people to appreciate themselves for who they are.

Why exactly? No one knows who they are, and not everyones beautiful. I most certainly am not beautiful and I would be both arrogant and ignorant to claim such a thing. It seems more like an attempt at constructing an authoritave on subjective aesthetics, which seems contradictary really.

well, beauty isn't always just how someone looks. Someone can have a personality that you could consider beautiful.
I'm fully aware that there are nasty people out there who are horribly cruel, I wouldn't call them beautiful for their personalities.

And no, not EVERYONE is smoking hot. But everyone has at least one good quality about their looks.

[Syndactyly]

You want people to appreciate themselves by littering? Sticky notes are just a mess.

I understand the intent of this movement. It's really a good goal, I think you're headed in a good direction here, but a different technique should be used, in my opinion.

[Kiss Me Im English]

laurenwithoutsound

well, beauty isn't always just how someone looks. Someone can have a personality that you could consider beautiful.
I'm fully aware that there are nasty people out there who are horribly cruel, I wouldn't call them beautiful for their personalities.

And no, not EVERYONE is smoking hot. But everyone has at least one good quality about their looks.

Beauty is a much more... extravagant concept than mere self-acceptance. I don't believe beauty dwells away from aesthetics and into the realm of personality. I wouldn't call anyones personality 'beautiful' since I think it would be misplaced; I'd call it nice perhaps, or nasty, depending on how they act towards me. I'd also have to dissent, not everyone has one good quality about them, since it's based on subjectives.

[Starlurk]

Syndactyly

You want people to appreciate themselves by littering? Sticky notes are just a mess.

I understand the intent of this movement. It's really a good goal, I think you're headed in a good direction here, but a different technique should be used, in my opinion.

Most sticky notes are posted in a small closed in area, like a bathroom, where they can easily be plucked off the mirror and thrown away.

Sure there are probably better techniques, I like to spread "sticky-note" like pictures on Gaia. And we're always open to more ideas on how to do it. Some people like to just plain tape a paper onto a bulletin board. We don't advocate actual graffiti (which some people have done, OB doesn't advocate it either.) Sticky notes are easy to put up and easy to take down.

If you have other suggestions though we'll be happy to hear about them. 3nodding

[Starlurk]

No 44 Lucifer Morningstar

laurenwithoutsound

well, beauty isn't always just how someone looks. Someone can have a personality that you could consider beautiful.
I'm fully aware that there are nasty people out there who are horribly cruel, I wouldn't call them beautiful for their personalities.

And no, not EVERYONE is smoking hot. But everyone has at least one good quality about their looks.

Beauty is a much more... extravagant concept than mere self-acceptance. I don't believe beauty dwells away from aesthetics and into the realm of personality. I wouldn't call anyones personality 'beautiful' since I think it would be misplaced; I'd call it nice perhaps, or nasty, depending on how they act towards me. I'd also have to dissent, not everyone has one good quality about them, since it's based on subjectives.

Websters doesn't define beauty as something that's strictly based on aesthetics and that's the definition we're going with. 3nodding

[Kiss Me Im English]

Starlurk

Websters doesn't define beauty as something that's strictly based on aesthetics and that's the definition we're going with. 3nodding

That's irrelevant as to why you're attempting to create an authoritative structure on personal subjective interpretations of qualities.

[pigeonsoup]

No 44 Lucifer Morningstar

laurenwithoutsound

well, beauty isn't always just how someone looks. Someone can have a personality that you could consider beautiful.
I'm fully aware that there are nasty people out there who are horribly cruel, I wouldn't call them beautiful for their personalities.

And no, not EVERYONE is smoking hot. But everyone has at least one good quality about their looks.

Beauty is a much more... extravagant concept than mere self-acceptance. I don't believe beauty dwells away from aesthetics and into the realm of personality. I wouldn't call anyones personality 'beautiful' since I think it would be misplaced; I'd call it nice perhaps, or nasty, depending on how they act towards me. I'd also have to dissent, not everyone has one good quality about them, since it's based on subjectives.

and i respect that that's how you feel. I won't force you to agree with us, haha.
Well then, our goal is self-acceptance for people who find it hard to love themselves. Not love in the concieted "oh my god i am so amazing everybody wants me" kind, though.

[Syndactyly]

Beauty to me boils down to the person as a whole, inside and out. A "hot" person with a rotten personality is not beautiful to me. And a fat ugly person with a great personality is beautiful on the inside, but not necessarily on the outside. For me, a person has to be at least "okay" looking for me to consider them beautiful "as a whole."

Beauty CAN be found in ugly people, but a lot of ugly people are so insecure that they wash away the beauty that could have existed within them.

I'm relatively "average" looking, so when I lack in confidence I am unattractive to people, and when I am confident they see me as more attractive, maybe even "hot" on a good day.

Average was an understatement. I'm weird. I'm 5'3" and 100 lbs. Short men don't make it far in terms of visual appeal. My looks really don't do a lot for me:



If anyone calls me hot it's only because my personality enhances a very average plain appearance.

[Syndactyly]

Starlurk

Syndactyly

You want people to appreciate themselves by littering? Sticky notes are just a mess.

I understand the intent of this movement. It's really a good goal, I think you're headed in a good direction here, but a different technique should be used, in my opinion.

Most sticky notes are posted in a small closed in area, like a bathroom, where they can easily be plucked off the mirror and thrown away.

Sure there are probably better techniques, I like to spread "sticky-note" like pictures on Gaia. And we're always open to more ideas on how to do it. Some people like to just plain tape a paper onto a bulletin board. We don't advocate actual graffiti (which some people have done, OB doesn't advocate it either.) Sticky notes are easy to put up and easy to take down.

If you have other suggestions though we'll be happy to hear about them. 3nodding

The idea is interesting. For instance, I was part of an LGBT support group. I would carry the business cards, and stick them to every board in the city (a lot of stores had boards where you could stick business cards). So I can kind of get the mentality of spreading a positive message (or in my case, resource).

I think that more direct methods might be better. Like holding events, panels, or writing material. Maybe inspirational YouTube videos.

[Kiss Me Im English]

laurenwithoutsound

Well then, our goal is self-acceptance for people who find it hard to love appreciate themselves.

Which is all well and good, I just found mixing beauty into the subject made the topic unclear. Especially since more than half of the OP was about fat talk.