# Vanity Rant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641 "2002-12-14T00:01:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/21 "2002-12-14T18:46:08Z")
There’s one thing that really bugs me (of many), and that is people proclaiming themselves to be weird. It’s just as much a self-aggrandizing character statement as is Vixenation’s (who is obviously a self-involved fuckwit, but at least she has enough irony within her to call it a vanity rant). Just because you’re not a useless, brainless twink like Vixenation, doesn’t mean you’re “weird”. Sorry, Nutty, I’ve been digging into you lately! You were just the last one to say it. ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/22 "2002-12-14T19:10:32Z")
What a puke…are you so insecure that you have to resort to this to have somebody say " Oh you poor little thing, you sound pretty to me". Maybe its your personality, character or wit that is lacking so much that it makes you look ulgy, or maybe your vanity is standing in the way. Anyone who believes your nonsense is dumber than you are. Maybe those folks that say you are ugly are not necessarily referencing you looks. ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/23 "2002-12-14T19:30:42Z")
Obviously I am not the brainless fuckwit, because if you had read the two places where I stated that I’m not doing this for attention, maybe you wouldn’t be so fast to call me things you don’t know that I am. None of you have seen the way I look, so I don’t expect anyone to say that I’m pretty. I don’t think I’m ugly, but I certainly don’t think I’m even that attractive, either. However, I _do_ know that cerain things about the way I look (good or bad) are true, such as my skin tone, hair color, and eye color. The only reason I posted here was because I was bothered by people saying things about me that I know to be untrue, and felt I could rant. If people continually referred to me as male, elderly, Asian, etc. (things I am not), I would be confused and irritated because I am obviously not any of these. I don’t want anybody’s pity or an ego boost, I just wanted to rant. I’ll keep it to myself next time. But thank you for your comments to the people that weren’t so quick to judge me. ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/24 "2002-12-14T19:40:05Z")
Oh, now I see. No quick judging by anyone but you. And if you say it is not for attention, we are all to accept that as fact. Wow, I apologize for not following those simple rules. I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/25 "2002-12-14T19:46:02Z")
Oh by the way Vixenation, you will no doubt feel better about yourself when you get to be 15 or 16 years old. Until then be patient the years will go by quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/26 "2002-12-14T19:49:15Z")
Where did I judge someone without knowing them? I apologize if I did, because I can assure you that I was just reacting to being judged myself. I’m not asking for sympathy or pity here. I just needed to get this off of my chest, and hope for a little understanding. I only have 11 (12 as of this) posts, and I really don’t want to make a name for myself here as the brainless, vapid, conceited, attention-starved bitch. Perhaps it wasn’t wise to make a pit thread so early into my posting career. Maybe I should have waited until you all knew me and the way I write a little better. ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/27 "2002-12-14T19:50:42Z")
**Chanticleer** , I am 18. I think, with these comments, you’re just being unnecessarily rude and immature now, if you don’t mind my saying. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/28 "2002-12-14T19:53:20Z")
Thank you, **Chanticleer** , I was beginning to think I was the only one who noticed. It probably would’ve been alot easier to start a thread that just said, “Hi. I’m 5’1”, 105lbs with gorgeous emerald eyes and blonde hair and my measurements are 34-23-34. How YOU doin’?" But at least she aptly named the title. We’re soulless goons for opening the thread, you realize. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/29 "2002-12-14T19:54:55Z")
I’m being immature. Well I’ll be switched. And all this time I thought it was you. Just goes to show how wrong a fella can be. ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/30 "2002-12-14T19:56:59Z")
😃 I’m happily taken, **malkavia** , so I wouldn’t dream of starting such a thread. If any threads discussing what I look like are going to get me criticized or be misconstrued as a personal ad or flirt thread, then I just won’t post anything like it again. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/31 "2002-12-14T19:57:39Z")
Wow!:eek: A Newbie bitchslapin’ session! ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/32 "2002-12-14T20:00:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vixenation \* > \*\*😃 > > I’m happily taken, **malkavia** , so I wouldn’t dream of starting such a thread. If any threads discussing what I look like are going to get me criticized or be misconstrued as a personal ad or flirt thread, then I just won’t post anything like it again. That’s all. \*\* Can we hold you to this or do you have your fingers crossed? ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/33 "2002-12-14T20:01:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by malkavia \* > **It probably would’ve been alot easier to start a thread that just said, “Hi. I’m 5’1”, 105lbs with gorgeous emerald eyes and blonde hair and my measurements are 34-23-34. How YOU doin’?"** “My turnons are sincerity and long walks on the beach…” ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/34 "2002-12-14T20:02:26Z")
I promise…especially when I get this kind of trouble over something that I don’t think warranted it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/35 "2002-12-14T20:08:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vixenation \* > \*\*I am not pale. > > I’ve been patronizing tanning salons since last May. I go every day. > … > I’m as dark as Britney Spears with a sunburn, > … > Yes, I know I was born with beautiful chocolate locks. But some time ago, I felt like a change and lightened it to a golden medium blonde. So blonde that when I wear black, it glows white. > … > I know that a 5’1 girl who weighs 105 lbs is extraterrestrial as far as you’re concerned > … > My measurements are 34-23-34. I wear a size small shirt, size 3 pants, and size 3 dress. > … > all our other friends (who outweigh me by 20 lbs easily) are the epitome of slender and thin. > … > My eyes are GREEN. Note the sparkling, forest color they emit when you look into them…\*\* You deserve any lambasting that you get here. You DO say that you’re not being vain, so I guess you’re not being vain. :rolleyes: I haven’t taken psych 101 (good luck on the final, by the way), but I know a narcissistic bitch when I read one. What confuses me is a narcissistic bitch that goes on about how little she is a narcissistic bitch. That throws my brain for a loop. Oh, and you must really be a fucking bar star if your idea of a “golden medium blonde” glows white when you wear black! ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/36 "2002-12-14T20:10:37Z")
Yes…I guess I could have described myself a little differently. But I was riled up when I wrote it. I’m sorry that I came across as being narcissistic. If you knew me, I don’t think you’d feel that way. By the way, what’s a bar star? ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/37 "2002-12-14T20:13:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarmaComa \* > \*\*There’s one thing that really bugs me (of many), and that is people proclaiming themselves to be weird. It’s just as much a self-aggrandizing character statement as is Vixenation’s (who is obviously a self-involved fuckwit, but at least she has enough irony within her to call it a vanity rant). Just because you’re not a useless, brainless twink like Vixenation, doesn’t mean you’re “weird”. > > Sorry, Nutty, I’ve been digging into you lately! You were just the last one to say it. \*\* I never actually decreed myself as ‘weird’ and then _became_ weird. THAT is self-aggrandizing. Actually, several (meaning most) people in my high school and my first roommate during freshman year (as well as the rest of the floor) called me weird. So, it’s not self-aggrandizing. I never proclaimed myself to that. Should I have said, “outcast” instead? My friends and I were a bunch of geeky misfits who watched Bugs Bunny and “Late Night”, “The Young Ones”, listened to Bauhaus and Dead Kennedys and watched our friend juggle. To a lot of people, that was weird. To us, it wasn’t. It just took me a while to find people who were like me. Then I didn’t feel so ‘weird’. Sorry if I appeared to set myself apart from anyone. It’s not my intention to seem better than anyone else. Getting picked on everyday in H.S. does NOT make one feel better than her peers. By the way, **Karma**. Quit following me around the pit, dammit! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/38 "2002-12-14T20:14:33Z")
Three cheers for KarmaComa. Hip Hip Horray! ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/39 "2002-12-14T20:15:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, and you must really be a fucking bar star if your idea of a “golden medium blonde” glows white when you wear black! It’s an ashy, cool shade of medium blonde. When placed against something black, that shade tends to look even lighter, almost white sometimes. I just mentioned that to give emphasis to my argument that my hair isn’t brown at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641/40 "2002-12-14T20:20:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vixenation \* > \*\*It’s an ashy, cool shade of medium blonde. When placed against something black, that shade tends to look even lighter, almost white sometimes. I just mentioned that to give emphasis to my argument that my hair isn’t brown at all. \*\* Vix…the more you describe yourslef the uglier you do sound. Are you sure you aren’t really ugly? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-rant/142641.md?page=3)