Quote: (06-27-2014 01:36 AM)2Wycked Wrote:
This comes out in the ad, as they seem to think telling girls they are inherently kind, smart, etc. is the appropriate way to raise self-esteem. It isn't, as it will cause insecurity when their identity is threatened by reality. We see this all the time with feminists, as they regard themselves as thinkers, smart and educated. When challenged, they project stupidity or ignorance onto others, as they see themselves as smart and intelligent, so stupidity couldn't possibly coming from somebody like them.
It's odd. They've been blowing smoke up girl's arses since the mid 80's or so with this positive self-esteem mantra, with increasing intensity, and I've watched women seemingly-degrade in my lifetime because of it.
All it seems to have resulted in is weird, twitchy, constantly-stressed out girls seemingly-unable to deeply connect with those around them, who are prone to depression and give off a sense of being control freaks, desperately hanging on to their comportment by a thread, but looking for the slightest triviality to completely break down over and fly into a hysterical rage.
When I was a kid, if you looked at women, they were generally smiling, daydreaming, giggling or happy. Now their default expression on the street is stressed and pissed-off, and their facebook and tinder profile pictures are a parade of awkward, not-quite-knowing-what-a-normal-human-expression-is pictures. Even worse, when they used to be daydreaming in public, now they often seem to be sitting there, absolutely vacant, in what honestly resembles a fugue state.
The cult of self-esteem has created a generation of broken women, and if all the cheerleading in the world has resulted in the girls I see before me, with their false accomplishments, constant complaining, and lack of any real advancement, research or breakthroughs coming from their segment of society, then the problem isn't low self-esteem, but that girls simply want it all without working for it and expecting others to do it for them, then spiral into depression when it doesn't happen.