Last week we saw a couple of ginger hotties in bikinis hiding from the sun under a beach umbrella that barely shaded them both. The folly 
of the exercise was a bit much and maybe someone should have mentioned to them that their cooler and bags did not need to be taking up room under the umbrella, but it struck a cord about the future of the health of beach goers than spend summer days tanning.
Even the most vitriolic racists will hit the beach and lather on the oil and try to get the "perfect" tan. In other words, they will try to get blacker. Even gingers and other transparent-skinned types will lie on the beach all day, even if they end up red and in lots of pain from the unrelenting, cruel rays of the sun. It is a particularly
unexplainable human trait. They know it's not a good thing, that it causes skin cancer, that all other animals on the planet seek shade and not direct sunlight, and yet...
Lobsterfarians, as we have named the people who try to tan but cannot, are a hardy breed. They don't have an answer for why they're out there unprotected on days when the weatherman has warned that because of ozone depletion it is dangerous to lay out. Perhaps it's a social thing, like smoking or drinking, whereby you get to hang out with you friends and share an activity thereby rendering it socially acceptable, no matter what the later consequences may bring.
Some people actually rail about their "pasty skin" being unacceptable. Somehow they have been programmed to think this way. Is it movies and TV and Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion that put this nonsense in their heads? The image of the sexy men and women in bikinis having fun is a powerful one, but where does it end? How tanned is TOO tanned?
Well that's like asking, "How blond is too blond?" Fake blonds know they are poisoning and destroying th
eir hair, but somehow they believe they look better and there's nothing anyone can say that will change their mind. Black girls know that processing their hair with a carcinogenic chemical is bad, but they are programmed to believe it makes them more attractive. The concept of the tanning salon is equally strange and dangerous.
There was a bodybuilding show downtown last week where the men and women had to tan because it created greater shadow contrast for their muscles thus giving them a better shot at winning. But why do MMA fighters use tanning beds? They are supposed to be confident about their fighting abilities not their looks.
The need to change the way we look for the appreciation of others has been around since the human race developed opposable thumbs; it will never change. In the meantime the best thing we can do for our loved ones is to try not to laugh when the women's bikini lines and the men's beach shorts line are exposed, to comfort them when the pain of skin burn keeps them wake at night, and to try to love them for being themselves even when they are not trying to be themselves.
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of the exercise was a bit much and maybe someone should have mentioned to them that their cooler and bags did not need to be taking up room under the umbrella, but it struck a cord about the future of the health of beach goers than spend summer days tanning.Even the most vitriolic racists will hit the beach and lather on the oil and try to get the "perfect" tan. In other words, they will try to get blacker. Even gingers and other transparent-skinned types will lie on the beach all day, even if they end up red and in lots of pain from the unrelenting, cruel rays of the sun. It is a particularly
unexplainable human trait. They know it's not a good thing, that it causes skin cancer, that all other animals on the planet seek shade and not direct sunlight, and yet...Lobsterfarians, as we have named the people who try to tan but cannot, are a hardy breed. They don't have an answer for why they're out there unprotected on days when the weatherman has warned that because of ozone depletion it is dangerous to lay out. Perhaps it's a social thing, like smoking or drinking, whereby you get to hang out with you friends and share an activity thereby rendering it socially acceptable, no matter what the later consequences may bring.
Some people actually rail about their "pasty skin" being unacceptable. Somehow they have been programmed to think this way. Is it movies and TV and Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion that put this nonsense in their heads? The image of the sexy men and women in bikinis having fun is a powerful one, but where does it end? How tanned is TOO tanned?
Well that's like asking, "How blond is too blond?" Fake blonds know they are poisoning and destroying th
eir hair, but somehow they believe they look better and there's nothing anyone can say that will change their mind. Black girls know that processing their hair with a carcinogenic chemical is bad, but they are programmed to believe it makes them more attractive. The concept of the tanning salon is equally strange and dangerous.There was a bodybuilding show downtown last week where the men and women had to tan because it created greater shadow contrast for their muscles thus giving them a better shot at winning. But why do MMA fighters use tanning beds? They are supposed to be confident about their fighting abilities not their looks.
The need to change the way we look for the appreciation of others has been around since the human race developed opposable thumbs; it will never change. In the meantime the best thing we can do for our loved ones is to try not to laugh when the women's bikini lines and the men's beach shorts line are exposed, to comfort them when the pain of skin burn keeps them wake at night, and to try to love them for being themselves even when they are not trying to be themselves.
Next: Bow Wow Wow, Yippy Yo Yippy Yay - Put A Dog Park On the Mother Fuckin' Island
