Good post Lamby,
But whats the way out.
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Good post Lamby,
But whats the way out.
MEDIA is the villain propagating bad ideas, trends, fashions motivated by MONEY! An awareness, counter-campaign can be of some use. Just a hope!
Shyam,
Who is the author of this article?
Hope you are aware that in the west, it is found necessary that both husband and wife earn a salary in order to make ends meet, unless the husband is extremely rich/has an excellent job.
From today’s “Times of India”(international section):
…While everyone knows most women won’t be seen without make-up, just how much they pay for it may come as a shock. The average woman, according to research, is estimated to spend a staggering 182,528 pounds on beauty products in her adult lifetime-almost 7,000 pounds more than the typical cost of a three-bedroom home
The survey claims women splash out an average of 2,944 pounds a year on moisturizers, make-up and beauty treatments. The182,000 pounds figure –taken to be the total spent between ages of 18 and 80 –far strips recent research which suggests that in the course of a lifetime women snap up fashion worth 97,000pounds and shoes totaling 31,680pounds.
“New Woman” magazine, which commissioned the study, surveyed 5,000 women who spent an average 600pounds a year on pampering such as facials, massages and anti-aging treatments.
The survey found only 3% of women felt naturally beautiful while 1%-just 50 women-refused to wear any make-up at all. Seven in 10 of those who wore cosmetics said they thought it made them look sexier and they felt “happier with life”.
Women spent an average of 52 minutes every day plastering on beauty goods and kept an average 86 products stocked in their bathrooms.
..Liz Sutton, of the Get Lippy cruelty-free make-up campaign, warned that obsession with products may have gone too far.
She said:”Women are under a lot of pressure to look a certain way and to use cosmetics. They are bombarded with advertising. Young girls are targeted by magazines which carry advertising for make-up and beauty products while women in their 20s are being told to consider anti-aging cream, Botox and even plastic surgery.”
*DIGR*:shock: Plse......not this name!!Quote:
Originally Posted by goodsense
I've felt queasy enuff w/ Lammy after I realised the meaning behind tat name! :oops: :)
/DIGR
Same pinch! :lol:Quote:
Shyam,
Who is the author of this article?
Hope you are aware that in the west, it is found necessary that both husband and wife earn a salary in order to make ends meet, unless the husband is extremely rich/has an excellent job.
Believe it or not, its the same scenario in India too now! :(
Even I wasnt able to find out the author of this article......as I said, I found it posted in the msn groups.....the author or original source wasnt mentioned atall.....
Tat I'm afraid can be left to the women only to find out.....in wich case I'm sure they'd be very very capable......IF a time comes wen they wish/decide to hav a way out of it, of course!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandeep
If u notice, the role-models even in our society for women hav changed tremendously in recent times.....the present ones being sum B'wood or glamour world celebs. (inc. models) w/ 'liberator' attitudes......so if, as u ask, ther shud be a way out, I wud say the role-models for the society must change first, wich wud begin to pave the way......!
Tat reminds me wen my mother had gone to the US on a fellowship many yrs ago, she'd been a paying guest in the house of an American lady & told me tat her hostess wud spend 1/2 hr in the bathroom every morning after she got up- putting on make-up! And jus to go jogging for an hour or so.....! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam
Don't make me die this early hour of the morning :lol: :? Well, you see I am getting use to Shyam. It's hard switching from Lammy to Shyam and if I call you Lamby I know I will go back to Lammy. It's feeling OK now although no one else here calls you Shyam.
From today’s ‘Hindustan Times,Mumbai’:
Generation tech lives in bubble world.
Washington.
Julie Beasley looked out of her window one morning and saw a teenager changing clothes in the middle of the street. “She opened a side door and dropped her pants. She took her pants off and reached in the car and pulled out a skirt. Then she put the skirt on and pulled off her sweatshirt,”says Beasley, 46, of Iowa city. “All of it surprises me. I think they’re oblivious to adults, period.”
To baby boomers and other adults of certain age, young people may seem rude, disrespectful and generally clueless about established social mores. But to social scientists, the phenomenon is more complicated.
Raised by parents who stressed individualism and informality, these young people grew p in a society that is more open and offers more choices than in their parents’ youth, says child and adolescent psychologist Dave Verhaagen of Charlotte.
Unlike their parents, they have never known anything but a world dominated by technology. Even their social lives revolve around the web, iPods and cellphones. So they dress down, talk loose and reveal their innermost thoughts online.
“Put that all together and you’ve got a generation that doesn’t have the same concept of privacy and personal boundaries as generations before,” Verhaagen says.
On top of that, young people don’t care as much about making a good impression as their parents and grandparents did growing up, says Jean Twenge, an associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University.
“Over time, these kids will bring a different attitude and shape the culture of business and interactions in a way that we haven’t seen before.”
But for now, it still drives some adults crazy when they see young people talking to parents and teachers the same casual way as they talk to their friends.
whole discussion seems to be a paan-spitting bowl for moral police stuck in the 16th century and who feel unwanted today.