Urban Legends: Alive and Kicking

Everybody likes to hear a good shidduch story, so here’s a new one. You might have heard with slight modifications or variations, but this happened to my friend last night, so you’re only getting it third hand.
A shadchan called my mother’s friend and tells her that there is a gorgeous boy who is fabulously wealthy [...]

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Men vs. Women: The Last Degradation

Man vs. Woman
Handsome vs. Beautiful.
We’ll all agree that woman as a physical being are infinitely more beautiful/gorgeous/nicer looking than men. Yes, there are plenty of men that are better looking than a majority of women, but if you were to take the best looking guy and the best looking girl, hormones aside, the woman will [...]

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Pity Pretty People

You know what, I feel bad for pretty people.
 
Say what you want, but it’s very hard to be pretty, or handsome, or gorgeous or insert adjective here.
 
I’m sure there are many of you out there pulling facing, shouting What?!?, and dismissing me as certifiably insane.
 
“It’s so easy to be pretty, you always look good”
“People [...]

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Glasses Half Full

I was wondering whether they still sell those thick plastic half-rim frames that grace so many chassidishe men and boys faces, or do they keep them in such pristine condition that they still have them. Or maybe they got them in the day where the concept of quality wasn’t dead, so they never broke and [...]

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Below Beauty and Brains (and maybe Brawn)

Tembow, you really set me off with your first post….so here’s more on it.
 
Throughout world history, civilization has always prized beauty in different way, shapes and forms (can you tell I’ve been tutoring someone on Global Regent essays)….
 
Ok, so this is how it is: We all like pretty things (some of us more than others). [...]

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In My Eyes and Heart

This post was spurred by “In My Life’s” post about not giving a guy a second date because she didn’t go for his looks.
 
My friends are beautiful.
 
Every single one them.
 
Statistically it’s a little improbable unless I make it a point to only make friends with pretty people. I’m not THAT shallow…so how do [...]

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Patronizing Pretty

I don’t mind going to shul on Shabbos. I even enjoy it. Walking there takes 20 minutes, as does walking home, so I get 40 minutes of walking before I eat the seuda, so then I don’t feel so bad eating what I do.
 
 I actually enjoy leining, I get to know what parsha it is, [...]

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Beautiful Agony

The back of my foot is ripped to shreds. My toes are red and squished. I have a large blister on the sole of my foot, yet I love my new shoes. They are a black patent leather, have a sizable heel and look great with my black dress, or really anything. The fact that [...]

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Flawed Perspective

I rip people apart.
 
I dissect their face, their body, their wardrobe, their personality.
 
Not to be mean, not to gossip, just out of plain old curiosity.
 
Very often, I’ll look at someone, and very rudely in my head go,
 
“I’d never be able to live with her nose/calves/teeth/stomach etc., how do they deal with it?”
 
And then I [...]

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Ride to Beauty

You know there are those days where you just feel ugly. Your skin is blotchy, and makes your nose look bigger. Your hair seems to have been inspired by a peacock; your eyes are drooping because you haven’t slept in three days. You’re feeling fat and your shoes are hurting you…forget about the fact that [...]

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