demiurgent

It may not be the most popular sentiment, but sometimes I really have to wonder about the Member Review/Hopeful system.

Suicidegirls was the bastion of non-traditional beauty, where women who didn't conform to the Playboy/Sports Illustrated Swimsuit/High Fashion/Bikini Model/Airbrushed ideal could find acceptance and -- yes -- celebration, reveling in their own beauty and their own skin, no matter what they chose to print on or pierce into that skin.

I know that a lot of that went by the wayside, as the 'suicidegirl type' appeared -- thin-to-skinny, small busted but not too much so, tattoos and some piercings. And I know that Member Review was supposed to be the chance for the members to veto the owners' decisions, to get some non-traditional beauty in....

It just really bothers me to see a beautiful person putting herself out -- quite literally exposing herself -- only to get a score in the seventies because she's forty, or ten pounds over the ideal, or beautiful but poorly framed.

And then, to see a number of models get large numbers of 'yes' votes and comments and still not make it onto the Front Page....

I don't know. It makes me sad, is all.