Never Enough

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

You can get to the gym
lose a little weight
You can put that lumpy body back into shape

but it won't be enough.

You can buy some makeup
put it on like you care
you can get a pair of tweezers and pluck those nasty hairs

but it still won't be enough

You can read all the papers
Keep up with the news
You can join the revolution when it comes around to you

but it will never be enough

Because you were never pretty enough
Never smart enough
Never sane enough
Never nice enough
And you'll never be young enough again.


(apologies for the emo bullshit)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That's a pretty good summation of the mass media message.

[Don Coyote]

That's a pretty good summation of the mass media message.

What the unruly mob said.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I keep falling into that meter on my rants, gonna have to work on branching out.

[Triple Zero]

That's a pretty good summation of the mass media message.

Yeah but the truth of it is, if you do do all those things, you're doing pretty good!

I mean exercise, keeping up with the news as best as you can (.. and a teensy touch of makeup and epilating hairs, well, speaking as a man (or male? I forgot the distinction again), can't say it goes unappreciated )

[Elder Iptuous]

it's a balance, i guess, between aiming high to be your best v. running yourself ragged chasing after an unachievable goal.
i tend to agree with Trip, though...

i like it, however, as far as 'emo bullshit' goes. 

[Freeky]

(or male? I forgot the distinction again)

Male is what you're born as, man is the other thing.

[Triple Zero]

THAT DIDNT HELP AT ALL!



shouldn't we have words like femalophile and malophile?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

THAT DIDNT HELP AT ALL!



shouldn't we have words like femalophile and malophile?

You are male in sex, and your gender identity is as a man. You may use the terms interchangeably.

The term "male" could also refer to an immature male human (a boy), or a male animal of another species, such as a stallion or a ram. You are not a stallion or a ram, nor are you a boy; you are a man.

[Triple Zero]

And a femalophile!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

And a femalophile!

I think that the most linguistically correct formation of that word would be gynophile. Is Phox around? She'll know.

[Lenin McCarthy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androphilia_and_gynephilia

Androphilia and gyne(co)philia are the right terms, it seems.

@ the OP: I like it. It resonates with the common feeling of inadequacy.
I was going to give this emomittens, but MS Paint wouldn't let me make 'em (and downloading Gimp or Paint.NET takes too much time). 

[Luna]

Damn, QG...

That, there, in a nutshell, is what my husband did to me.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Thanks guys. It's nice to know that I can at least spew useful stuff while in a foul mood.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Like the biting and clawing darkside of TLC's "Unpretty".