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Seoulman69
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Not to mention the moral issues I have with the existence of such products.
As for the way Korean girls dress: in general, Koreans don't seem that well-dressed to me. At first I thought it was just my city, but I haven't really seen many well-dressed people in Seoul either. Despite what some guys seem to think, Korean girls don't strike me as more attractive or better dressed than anyone else. Some of these guys just have issues, with themselves and with women lol. They are very often the last guy a sane girl would look twice at and yet they somehow feel entitled to judge women on their appearance. To the left, to the left... |
What moral issues?
I have to disagree and say that people in Seoul dress a lot smarter than people back home. I'm not a guy with issues. I just have an opinion on what i see. I've dated Korean and foreign girls while i've lived in Korea so i disprove your final statements too. |
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jfromtheway
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| I remember walking around lost in Chiang Mai late at night and turning a corner to find about fifteen sparkly-dressed working girls arranged on stools staring right at me, their faces white as the moon with that whitening cream. The first word that came to mind was "spooky," the second was "jackpot." Kidding, they started screaming at me to come in and I quickly walked away, but I still can't seem to shed that Thai white-face dollhouse of ill repute image. |
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Michaela
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Not to mention the moral issues I have with the existence of such products.
As for the way Korean girls dress: in general, Koreans don't seem that well-dressed to me. At first I thought it was just my city, but I haven't really seen many well-dressed people in Seoul either. Despite what some guys seem to think, Korean girls don't strike me as more attractive or better dressed than anyone else. Some of these guys just have issues, with themselves and with women lol. They are very often the last guy a sane girl would look twice at and yet they somehow feel entitled to judge women on their appearance. To the left, to the left... |
What moral issues?
I have to disagree and say that people in Seoul dress a lot smarter than people back home. I'm not a guy with issues. I just have an opinion on what i see. I've dated Korean and foreign girls while i've lived in Korea so i disprove your final statements too. |
Moral issues? Someone whitening their skin in an effort to be considered more beautiful is something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. I feel the same way about plastic surgery and some people's obsession with tanning. None of it seems quite right to me, but that's just me.
I never said you had issues - I said some of these judgemental guys have issues. Most of the North American girls I know aren't anything like the way some guys make them out to be. I think the way they are sometimes stereotyped and put down is disrespectful and often says more about the person making the comments than about the girls. I don't know where some guys get off speaking about women that way.
I don't have a problem with how people dress in Seoul, but I don't think they dress better than in most other big cities around the world. |
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Seoulman69
Joined: 14 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Moral issues? Someone whitening their skin in an effort to be considered more beautiful is something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. I feel the same way about plastic surgery and some people's obsession with tanning. None of it seems quite right to me, but that's just me. |
Then where do you draw the line? Is wearing make up all right. Is dying your hair?
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| I said some of these judgemental guys have issues. Most of the North American girls I know aren't anything like the way some guys make them out to be. I think the way they are sometimes stereotyped and put down is disrespectful and often says more about the person making the comments than about the girls. I don't know where some guys get off speaking about women that way. |
Seems to me you are just as judgmental as the guys you are referring to.
Pot, meet kettle. |
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Michaela
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| Moral issues? Someone whitening their skin in an effort to be considered more beautiful is something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. I feel the same way about plastic surgery and some people's obsession with tanning. None of it seems quite right to me, but that's just me. |
Then where do you draw the line? Is wearing make up all right. Is dying your hair?
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| I said some of these judgemental guys have issues. Most of the North American girls I know aren't anything like the way some guys make them out to be. I think the way they are sometimes stereotyped and put down is disrespectful and often says more about the person making the comments than about the girls. I don't know where some guys get off speaking about women that way. |
Seems to me you are just as judgmental as the guys you are referring to.
Pot, meet kettle. |
Yeah, there is a line. Make-up and dye can be washed off. More permanent measures can't and come with much bigger potential health issues. To each his own. I just question the social norms that lead to people making these decisions.
I'm actually not a judgemental person at all, but I don't allow myself to be disrespected and if that makes me judgemental in your eyes, then so be it. However, what does that make you for calling me judgemental?  |
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Seoulman69
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| However, what does that make you for calling me judgemental? |
It makes me observant.  |
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Michaela
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MollyBloom
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| A friend explained it to me like this: it actually doesn't whiten your skin, per se, but the chemicals in the products act to speed up the melatonin cells....For example, if you get a tan, then put that cream on, it would quicken the turnover time where the healthy cells would regenerate, thus turning your skin lighter. Does that make sense? So if you just keep on adding and adding it, it will quickly turn over the cells, or possibly prevent them from getting "tan," or something like that. I was told it's not legal here to sell products with, say, bleach, to make your skin literally whiter, but I'm sure that doesn't stop companies from doing it... |
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JeffersonDarcy2010
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Not to mention the moral issues I have with the existence of such products.
As for the way Korean girls dress: in general, Koreans don't seem that well-dressed to me. At first I thought it was just my city, but I haven't really seen many well-dressed people in Seoul either. Despite what some guys seem to think, Korean girls don't strike me as more attractive or better dressed than anyone else. Some of these guys just have issues, with themselves and with women lol. They are very often the last guy a sane girl would look twice at and yet they somehow feel entitled to judge women on their appearance. To the left, to the left... |
What moral issues?
I have to disagree and say that people in Seoul dress a lot smarter than people back home. I'm not a guy with issues. I just have an opinion on what i see. I've dated Korean and foreign girls while i've lived in Korea so i disprove your final statements too. |
You take the best dressed American girls and the best dressed Korean girls - Koreans will be so far behind that no one will even notice they are there. (In my opinion and all other foreigners I personally know here think the same). |
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Seoulman69
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