[Monkey Face]

Your image of "beauty in society" seems to be rather twisted. Or maybe it's because your life as you know it, is in a British, "Liberal" society.

In America, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and I, for one, try to retain the beauty around me.

[cyborg]

Yes it's better to block out whatever the dominant media is throwing at you, and be independent. Otherwise a girl can get sucked in as I have. That experiment was first done way back in the 1950s. It's been repeated a few times since then and didn't have the same one sided results.