[quote]Professor X wrote:
Vicomte wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Vicomte wrote:
I do what I do for myself and myself alone, as do you, and, well, pretty much everyone. And that makes us all equally worthy. That’s what I’m getting at.
That was so “We Are the World” I think I can feel Disney twisting in his grave.
You do this all the time, X. You completely ignore any substance or argument in a post and focus on some silly statement to make fun of. Your ‘At the core, I lift for me. I push myself to see where my own limits are. I LOVE the fact that many women seem to enjoy it too, but if I was alone on this planet, I would probably still be lifting weights.’ is just as patronizingly ‘I am my own man’ bullshit as what I was trying to get across.
I’m not saying we’re all equals, I’m saying what we do and like has equal bearing. I’m not saying we should all get along, I’m saying you shouldn’t be so ignorant as to not realize that you aren’t special. It’s not ‘We Are The World’ so much as ‘X Isn’t a Special Snowflake, and Neither Is Anyone Else’. We’re not all the same be we are all neutral if we do things because it’s what we want for ourselves.
Kind of like what you said, except I’m not focusing on women’s opinions of what I do.
The question is whether many of these people are actually doing it for themselves. I thought I made that clear.
If some personal trainer claims that he stays smaller and has a six pack so he can sleep with “insert socially hawt girl here” (as if all women like the way he looks), I begin questioning whether he actually trains for himself at all when that is all he talks about.
Again, you can be who you want to be. I WILL make fun of you because you put yourself out there as a target with that makeup statement, but that in itself doesn’t mean I have no respect for you at all.
I have never held the sentiment that I am a “special snowflake”, but I do know that I am not average and I am not ashamed to state as much. Likewise, my goals are not average.
That doesn’t mean I expect everyone to have the same goals. However, I am still going to notice those who seem to be growing in number who have being mediocre as their actual life goal. As a society that can actually make us weaker.
I applaud the fact that you are thinking about the military. I’ve been there. I also know that if these “hawt abs” boys are our future, we are up shit’s creek if we ever have to rely on these little bitches for our “salvation”.[/quote]
I’m saying that we don’t know if they are doing what they do for themselves, but it’s entirely likely. Perhaps they just like having hawt abs. They do seem to like looking at them in the mirrors. It’s not a great goal but it’s a training goal and that’s something.
I think of myself as not average as well, but so does every mediocre joe six-pack who does situps for girls. Maybe we are different, maybe not. I at least allow for the idea that I’m just like everyone else, even if I believe differently. I like to think that bit of self-awareness is what sets me apart, if anything.
And feel free to make fun of me because I said I wear make-up. Just don’t tell me to relax when I make fun of someone for whatever they do. We can all say and believe what we like, but being a hypocrite is never cool.
And possibly the most important thing I’m saying is that just because something seems strange doesn’t mean it isn’t backed by something solid. Who knows, maybe hawt abs boy will save us all one day. Or make-up guy.
