How to Be Ugly

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - Sirius Black

Beauty is skin deep. We preach and preach about everyone has their own special brand of beautiful, whether it be inner or outer beauty. Honestly, I don't care about outer beauty. That's not going to be the point here. It's that people can be ugly. It matter how they act in society.

Basically, it boils down to treating your friends great and everyone else like dirt. And that is true of society when you notice how many people are truly oppressed on a daily basis. The words racist and homophobe didn't appear because we just wanted to have a word just in case. They appeared because that's how society acted. And technically, still acts when you read the statistics on how many rights minority groups don't have. A person's character can only truly be summed up by their personality.

Essentially, a good person is someone who accepts people for who they are. Someone who doesn't find groups of people unsettling to be around. Someone who doesn't want someone to change to conform to society. Do these people exist? I know the internet will surely give me a list of people that claim they are always respectful of every group and are truly good people. Unfortunately, I shouldn't be finding them on blogs that deem it acceptable to mock celebrities. Or trust them, because the internet is anonymous for the most part. That's part of the allure. I can't know because I don't know that person and their life. I can only trust that I try my hardest to not offend people. I do slip every so often. I will call a women the "b" word if they seem to be acting in a horrendous manner. Yet, I do also realise I probably shouldn't have done that. I try and correct it, limiting the use of the word until I feel that I have a handle on not using that word. I don't want to demean women. There is already not enough respect for women without me insulting my own kind. So I actively attempt change.

How many people are as aware as I am? Even if I'm not particularly in love with subjects that are tough, I still seek out those topics and read comments on them. I try and change so that those issues don't become my issues. We aren't set in stone. We never have been.

Attractiveness is far more than skin deep. Society is quite ugly and well, who knows if they'll ever learn that.