Quote Originally Posted by golentan View Post
Not so much, no. I'd say it's more a product of rapid communication leading to more people to compare against and a statistically higher high water mark than consumerism, though.
Well, I suppose the ability to photoshop photos probably doesn't help either. Still, I don't really understand why people are so self conscious. I think it would probably help to teach people to focus on what they are good at, there are a few things I'm better at than (almost) everyone I know and several others I'm still pretty good so it doesn't bother me that I'm not perfect in every way. I'm not super attractive, for example, but this doesn't bother me. Many people seem to think they have to be perfect and beat themselves up if they are not.

Part of it might be a conformity thing. People might not necessarily think they need to be perfect, but they want to be the same as everyone else and feel insecure when they are not. This is probably a problem many people have when they start thinking they are LGBT.