Word: esteem
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...hopeful each time, because for nearly two decades Oprah has brought us nothing but pain and heartache. Oprah is the opiate of the female masses, teaching them to build self-esteem by confronting the past and setting goals instead of feeling good the old-fashioned way: by having casual sex. She encourages women to look inside and "find their passion" without once entertaining the possibility that this passion might be fed with lots of sleeping around. Worse yet, she sets all these ridiculous expectations about reading once a month...
Many of the pageants Chavez has competed in are also involved in charity. Chavez has organized blood drives throughout Texas, established literacy programs for children in libraries and directed self-esteem seminars as part of her title duties. “I’m most proud of being Miss Fiestas del Llano [a title which she held last year that celebrates her Mexican heritage] and Miss American Achievement [a title she currently holds]. They are not as based on beauty as they are on academic performance and extracurricular activities,” she says...
...Crossroads, Britney has delved into the publishing world with her and her mother Lynne’s discussion of girl-dom and parenting in the modest seller Heart to Heart. Though Spears quite unjustly did not receive the National Book Award, pubescent girls of many diverse levels of self-esteem enjoyed Britney and mom’s analysis of body image issues. After reading the book, many girls then watched her performance on the 2000 Video Music Awards, in which she was clad in nothing but shiny undergarments, and proceeded to ask their parents what a child psychologist...
...women’s magazines. What kind of schizo put this crap together? Right in the middle of a sea of dieting tips will be a page on a triple suicide. I feel like the writers and editors of these journals are paranoid nymphos with rock-bottom self-esteem who are missing the piece of their brain that discriminates between “interesting” and “totally not important.” I mean, the top features are either “How About Now: Am I Orgasming...
Rosenkoetter identifies six areas in which emotional fulfillment is critical to a happy retirement: roles, relationships, self-esteem, support groups, life structure and use of time. Friendship, she notes, is an ingredient in all of them. And, observes gerontologist Rosemary Blieszner of Virginia Tech, a host of studies conducted in the past decade indicate retirees who enjoy a rich social life with family and friends tend to be healthier...