Thanks for being so genuine and sharing your story. :) As we discussed already on another thread, the beautiful women getting attention right now makes a lot of sense for the whales wanting to expand the number of people on Steemit. Men will see their posts and think, "Wow, a social media platform with beautiful women! I'm in!" Women might say, "Oh, here's where all the beautiful women are. I want to be like that." I completely agree we need more diversity in terms of the whales, maybe even, ideally, no whales at all with value spread out among the population (with the way the economics work here, I'm not sure that will ever happen... the haves gain even more steem power just for being invested). Until then, what can be done? Well... Time will tell. As more genuinely good content is created and more people join, the whale money will spread around a bit. Maybe they could even start giving good posts SMD tips to further spread things out. It's true though, as you said, once hundreds of thousands and even millions of poeple join Steemit, rewards will go way down for the average Steemer. That's a bummer, but at the same time a $0.01 reward is more than Twitter or Facebook ever paid anyone. :)
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"Wow, a social media platform with beautiful women! I'm in!" Women might say, "Oh, here's where all the beautiful women are. I want to be like that." Your paradigm leaves no room for women and girls who may not be the most attractive physically but who are geniuses.........it is for this reason that I believe the world is in need of being re-visualized. That is a super shallow way to view the female species!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ugh......
Women have a lot to offer beyond their looks.......
The faulty programs continue to show me their old devices.....
I am not saying that attractiveness should not be rewarded,but when it is the ONLY metric being used, then we have a fucking shallow world, where physically unnacttractive women who might possess spectacular minds are not rewarded. You just described
the realty tv paradigm that never shows anything of substance....
This is fucked up. No offense to you, but I refuse to back down with my opinions.
Oh, and the whales are never going away. They did indeed get this ship running.....they are rewarded for that initiative and risk-taking....
my paradigm as I was speaking in mainstream generalizations considering the larger population of people who might find Steemit. I'm not condoning it, just describing an aspect of reality (one I hope we can all work to change).Hey @stellabelle. Sorry I didn't explain myself well there. That's certainly not
I completely agree! I'm sorry if my comment above didn't explain that well at all. It's a sad dynamic (from my perspective as an outsider) of female interactions regarding looks, fashion, sexual expression, and the like. Some women can be vicious to each other regarding physical appearance. Very few companies have been bold enough to represent real women in their advertising, but hopefully more will do so. From my perspective so far, many of the highly upvoted intro posts aren't just about beauty, but also about interesting people. Does beauty play a large role? Yes, but I'm not sure (from the posts I've seen) it's the only thing being upvoted.
I also think that's unfortunate and something we can all actively work against. Similar paradigms exist in other categories (non "manly" men, etc) but we don't need to go into all that. I certainly wouldn't ask you to back down from your opinions; that's what's so great about communication and free expression! Your pushback highlighted how poorly I expressed myself here and how naming the problem (as it exists today) got misunderstood as my personal views.
(side note: using a > before a paragraph turns it into a blockquote. Makes following the conversation much easier)
(side note x2: I think I expressed myself better in this comment, and I really appreciated your reply. Thank you! I don't think I'm a genius (as this thread shows), but I am working to improve myself and my opinions).