lol @ bud breath420

Can't blame the media! Alright, the media does do ALL it can do to entice people to think that if they 'have this' or 'do that' that they will feel better. The objective of advertising is to make people think they will altogether have a better life if they buy and use a particular product. No one can show me an advert where the Sales & Marketing Army are not trying to show you how happy or better off you can be after spending money then using their product. That is part of the game.

Goin slightly off tangent; Magazines and particular publications get paid to sell you stuff. Often a celebrity or model is used to sell a product. Society then becomes modelled on celebs and/or models. Celebs are modelled on models which is clear in their choice of designer wear. Models are celebs. Everyone is then made to look at the advertisement and subliminally think if they are like that person then they will be as happy as the individual in the photo or on screen. Getting paid big bucks keeps the smile on most celeb faces. But the same emotional things that affect all our 'happinesses' affects them too, but the advertisers can't show you that.

Concluding then, IMO, buying and using products that one thinks is goin to make them more attractive in some way decides the result that the sales people have done their job well, and not much else. So yes, people/men who think that a fast car; lots of money; a boat on the ocean; a mansion in the hills will make them more attractive to women are as fake as women with makeup who think that a mask somehow displays the real inner self. (I think I am goin a little to far here).

@ BB420 are the girls in the mags and on tv really that beautiful in the first place? Shallow people look in mags and dream of being that individual in the picture. To mimick an appearance; is that not to be fake? To try to impress, or to attract the attention of someone, by means of looking a certain way means essentially that a person is willing to put up a 2 dimensional picture of themself before anything else and hope to be recognised. Recognised as what? If I look at an attractive girl my initial thought might not be bedding her unless her tits are in my face or other subtle signs that indicate sexual tendencies are on show. Makeup is for one thing, to make oneself feel better by having people pay attention to them. Or lack of self love and confidence in ones' self could be an additive.

I could go on but it's bout time I stopped cause this post is slowly detracting from the topic. FAKE!