Look people... as weird as this may sounds we are ALL contributing to this social dysfunction. We buy the ridiculously-priced bags by the ultra-luxurious manufacturers, we buy the magazines like Cosmopolitan (Helen Gurley Brown,
Helen Gurley Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, have you ever seen her, she is a shriveled old stick, a victim and a perpetrator of an entire culture's perceptions of "beauty,") and we IDOLIZE the models for their beauty, not for their intellect. Does anyone even KNOW (or care) that Cindy Crawford was her high school's valedictorian?
Same thing goes for things like diamonds, (which I had an enormous debate about on another thread earlier this year,) which are sometimes mined by questionable practices.
Same thing goes for pretty much everything consumable in our culture. There are victims for everything. Why should a model be held in higher regard than say, animals for testing drugs or anonymous children exploited by child labor?
Sometimes we hold the wrong things in esteem in our society. You can either buy into it, or not.
Yeah it's sad she died, but she was brainwashed by an industry. Even organized religion is brainwashing. People just have to be smart enough to listen to their own moral and ethical compass to make their own informed choices.
