Question by Charlie Don’t Surf: Is the idea of “self-esteem” just a marketing tool to get people to buy products?
A young woman who looks at herself in the mirror and decides the reason men don’t look at her must be because of her body image. She goes and gets breast implants, lip injections, and everything else you can imagine.

The shy and scrawny adolescent boy who sees the tall, muscular, handsome jock picking up all the girls and enjoying a great social life. He goes on the Internet, orders steroids, penis enlargement pills, and a “How to change your Life” guidebook for good measure.

Did you ever think of “self-esteem” this way? is the idea of self-esteem just a big scam to make people feel like sh!t about themselves and resort to seeking help in the form of consumerism?

Self-RESPECT on the other hand is something totally different. If you have self-respect, there’s no need for self-esteem.

Best answer:

Answer by Libby T
Advertising and marketing use every weapon at their disposal to sell us everything they can to tidy up everything from head to toe, and everything in between. Our ancestors had lye soap, maybe. We have a guhzillion products and scents, in a muhzillion formats–gel, foam, liquid, spray–to attend to every possible funk and odor, real or imaginary, known to man. And woman.

Self-esteem and self-respect are pretty much one and the same, imo, and they are different from adv & mktg. They can ride in the same Milky Way with advertising and marketing, or not. Our choice. It’s a brain game.

Bottom line, for a wide variety of stimuli, both internal and external, one can choose to douche or not.

Like Marilyn Monroe, probably not for her precise reasoning, I choose…*not*.

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