everybody's fool

Perfect by nature
Icons of self-indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that


Never was and never will be
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled


Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know she


Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled


Without the mask where will you hide?
Can't find yourself lost in your lie
I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore


It never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled


It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
Somehow now you're everybody's fool



This isn't really all that off a portrayal. We sure as heck know that women are objectified by the media. Nor are the images of women normally even what the model looks like. YouTube has ALL KINDS of videos like this one...just look at some of the ones they have on the sidebar. I have a question, media people.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH WHAT I LOOK LIKE?

What is wrong with what women look like?

What is wrong with what we ARE?

This isn't me! I am physically incapable of looking like that! And this is what someone who knows very little about the art of photo retouching did in half an hour. The real picture?

I didn't do anything to this one. It's from about a year ago.

Kinda scary, isn't it? We've brainwashed and blackmailed women and men into believing in a standard of beauty that just isn't possible. As such, women feel pressured to turn themselves into objects that only look pretty. We become everybody's fool because our faces aren't what they were. Plastic surgery, pancake makeup, teeth whitening...the list goes on and on.

Even I feel the pressure. I look at that retouched picture and wonder why on earth I even bothered. Quite frankly, it makes me feel terrible about myself. Women want to be admired and loved, and the fastest way to get anything remotely related to that type of attention is through our face. The media forces models and stars into terror that their image isn't perfect and that they must keep it up in order to keep their jobs. Even those of us who don't spend our every waking second on our looks feel the pressure.

The pressure to lie about who we really are and that we aren't perfect. Our faces aren't perfect, our figures aren't perfect, and our lives aren't perfect. I can't look like that. So I stand before you, an imperfect woman with imperfect looks, an imperfect body, and a really messed-up life.

But I won't let the media turn me into everybody's fool.

-enna