| This is an uncomplicated contemplation of a recurrent | | | | professionally taken and managed for the subsequent |
| phenomenon - at least these days - over the | | | | publication in some famous and serious magazine. |
| Internet. This is not a verdict. Subsequently, we are | | | | The eagerness to be witnesses of other people's |
| not here to pass judgments or positive/negative | | | | unsightliness could be only explained as it follows. The |
| evaluations of the phenomenon, but rather to | | | | overwhelming amount of unlovely, unseemly |
| register its occurrence and to attempt discovering | | | | attributes which are specific to ugly people must be |
| some of its causes. The online episode which has | | | | either a matter of curiosity or a means of better |
| grabbed our attention is the posting of an increasing | | | | estimating your own qualities you have ignored up |
| number of ugly people pictures. | | | | until the moment you have browsed the Internet for |
| One thing must be made clear from the very | | | | pictures of ugly men or women. |
| beginning: we are not making a critique of ugly men | | | | In other words, website posted pictures of ugly |
| or women. We are only wondering about the reasons | | | | people practically assist less self-confident individuals |
| which determine people to post pictures the more | | | | into creating a "supply", to say so, of reasons why |
| than obvious topic of which is ugliness. The most | | | | their self-confidence should be augmented. When you |
| frequently invoked reason is that ugly men or | | | | look at those pictures you can only think either "I |
| women pictures are likely to entertain web site | | | | couldn't believe it until I saw it" or "Thank God I am |
| visitors. Truth is that, nowadays, entertainment is | | | | not like that". OK, so it may sound like a cheap and |
| obtained out of just any imaginable activity (and you | | | | somehow cruel manner of building self-confidence, |
| will immediately decipher what we mean by "any | | | | but in fact it simply acts as a more peculiar sort of |
| imaginable activity" if we give you a direction: think | | | | counterbalance. |
| about that movie/entertainment series labeled as | | | | You are probably familiar with a saying like "the grass |
| "Jackass"; we believe that we have said it all with this | | | | is always greener on the other side". Pictures of ugly |
| single example of entertainment pushed to its limits). | | | | men and women will make you reconsider the truth |
| The same as it happens with the movie previously | | | | value of such a saying. When you look at how many |
| mentioned posting pictures of ugly people is a form | | | | such pictures are displayed over the Internet, the |
| of leisure activity exploiting the extremes of what | | | | grass suddenly turns greener on your side. It may |
| leisure could point to. You can see it with your own | | | | even determine you asking whether such postings |
| eyes; there's no need to take only our word for it: | | | | are creating a trend or whether they haven't already |
| picture after picture, ugly men and women succeed | | | | assisted the birth of an entire, new online fashion. |
| one another as if figures in a strange, yet | | | | And, truth be told, you are right on the spot with |
| continuously developing roll film. | | | | such a question. In the end, it is only the website |
| Well, some may even say that this is done out of | | | | visitors who manage such trends: without their |
| art's sake. But let's face it, you cannot compare ugly | | | | increasing number of visits, the postings would soon |
| people pictures which are clearly taken in a haste and | | | | point at a lack of interest and thus there would be |
| pictures (yes, true enough, many of them focus on | | | | no discussion on a trend basis. |
| ugly aspects of life, such as wars, famine, orphans) | | | | |