Reply #81: You are the only one who got the joke. Sad.

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Everyone wants to be beautiful. But few of us are, at least according to the "ideal" of beauty promulgated by the media. But you can't really blame the media. Its a pure mammal animal male thing, guys want sexually fertile young women.

Demanding "acceptance" is spitting in the wind, trying to hold back the tide. There are lots more people than the overweight who have to deal with the fact that they are not conventionally attractive. There are the dorky, the short, those with bad skin, bad hair, the just plain ugly.

You cannot demand that the world "accept" you or respect you. Too bad, painful but true. What you can do is find the person who does think you are beautiful. Noone else's opinion matters once you've found that.

I am far from perfect. I accept that and don't go around whining that everyone has to "accept" me.