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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: reallyME on October 18, 2006, 12:30:51 PM

Title: might want to check out this interesting link ya'll
Post by: reallyME on October 18, 2006, 12:30:51 PM

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20051209-000005.xml

Title: Re: might want to check out this interesting link ya'll
Post by: WRITE on October 18, 2006, 12:44:05 PM

Thanks RM, you know a friend who has a big weight issue told me recently that she was dropped as a bridesmaid by another friend. She had the dress fitted and everything, then was no longer invited to the proceedings and her erstwhile friend stopped returning her calls- didn't even have the decency to borach the topic.

My  friend may be big but she is very beautiful. I would be proud to have her by my side on a big day.

I don't know what motivates people to be so cruel and unthinking as to prioritise the look of something into some kind of stereotype, but it's profoundly unhealthy and I am coming to see it as 'meanness of spirit'.

Title: Re: might want to check out this interesting link ya'll
Post by: Hopalong on October 18, 2006, 01:09:50 PM

GAAAAAAAGGH!

The @#$%^&* bride just ought to use her Barbie dolls for ladies in waiting, I mean, bridesmaids.

Weddings are to marriage as plastic surgery is to aging gracefully.

How horribly cruel, shallow and mean-spirited.
If I were a man, I would cancel. How she treats her friends now is how she'll treat you later.

Awful.

Hops

Title: Re: might want to check out this interesting link ya'll
Post by: pennyplant on October 18, 2006, 01:41:06 PM

Great article.  It does emphasize distance from these types.  Good to see that knowlege of Narcissism might be getting more into the mainstream now.  Maybe we won't have to be constantly educating people.......

PP

Title: Re: might want to check out this interesting link ya'll
Post by: moonlight52 on October 18, 2006, 11:21:50 PM

Hi RM, 

It is a great article maybe narcissism will be more mainstream and understood like child abuse .

The bridesmaid thing was so unkind.

THX

MOON