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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Bumbershoot / Young Ones LADIES: You Gotta Stop This!
Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Dear Ladies of Bumbershoot: I couldn't believe how many of you were doing this. I'm not trying to be preachy, but I started doing it when I was 13 years old, and it has been a roller coaster of quitting and starting (and quitting) ever since. It's easy to roll your eyes at the lung cancer warnings, but I wish someone would have told me about the wrinkles, painful teeth whitening, and cellulite. You should stop while you still can! Stop now! LOVE, Kelly O
- Kelly O
- All photos Kelly O
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Also: stop eating lemons! (Is that what the girl on the left is doing??) It's making my mouth eyes water just thinking about it.
2
Why just the ladies of Bumbershoot? Shouldn't the reasons be as compelling for men? I mean, if you're going to get all "preachy" then I may as well get all "feministy".
3
I really appreciate you making this point. I almost lost my dad this Sunday to heart disease. I've lost two grandparents and two aunts to smoking-realted illnesses.
6
Every single woman I have ever known in my life who was _even remotely_ promiscuous, "Kinky", or sexually "Non-vanilla-mainstream" (i.e. into fetish, leather, goth or alt fashion, swinging, or any combination of B, D, S, and/or M. Yeah, I'm casting a wide net here) was a smoker. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Now maybe this has to do with my conservative area (American Midwest), or my generation (I'm in my early 40's). Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it's cultural (70+ years of pop culture that links smoking with sexy), maybe it's somehow physiological (High sex drive linked to something else in the brain that's a factor in smoking)... I have absolutely no idea.
Every single woman I have ever known in my life who was _even remotely_ promiscuous, "Kinky", or sexually "Non-vanilla-mainstream" (i.e. into fetish, leather, goth or alt fashion, swinging, or any combination of B, D, S, and/or M. Yeah, I'm casting a wide net here) was a smoker. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Now maybe this has to do with my conservative area (American Midwest), or my generation (I'm in my early 40's). Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it's cultural (70+ years of pop culture that links smoking with sexy), maybe it's somehow physiological (High sex drive linked to something else in the brain that's a factor in smoking)... I have absolutely no idea.
7
I don't mind them smoking, I'd just appreciate it if they could throw their butts somewhere other than the ground.
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Obviously some marketing stuff is going on that you are not yet aware of, targeting young girls thru stuff like Pinterest and FB and twitter.
Very sad.
Too bad the Repugs gutted the commission that used to stop crap like this.
Very sad.
Too bad the Repugs gutted the commission that used to stop crap like this.
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@2 - Because girls smoke more than boys. And it's worse for them. Just Google it.
Smoking by teenage girls is one third higher than among boys... The findings have huge implications for women's health as the rising number of young female smokers threatens to overtake males hooked on the habit.
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The idea that having a ridiculous smoldering appendage, that makes you reek like a bum, is cool and attractive, has got to be the most ludicrous one to have ever swept the globe.
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Re: 10, better resolution, non-Mormony, multi-lingual replacement for third link:
http://www.who.int/tobacco/research/smok…
http://www.who.int/tobacco/research/smok…
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@6 I am considered a kinky woman and I don't smoke. I have tried it and I have never cared for it. I have known many other kinky women who don't smoke. I know a lot more vanilla women who do smoke. I agree that a good study would be to survey a bunch of women and men to see if there's anything to your theory.
@9 I prefer non-smoking kinksters, but not all smokers are equal. Some taste and smell of it more than others.
@9 I prefer non-smoking kinksters, but not all smokers are equal. Some taste and smell of it more than others.
16
Psssh. While you're being preachy, please tell all the hip ladies that blue fingernails are just off-putting and ugly. Also slate-colored, purple, green, or yellow fingernails. And lank, oily hair doesn't cut it, either. Wearing blue fingernail polish in public is like putting a sign around your neck that reads "I have hello kitty sheets on my bed and 118 stuffed animals crowded into my pillow."
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Skin, yes!! no one ever mentions that little side effect of smoking. Seriously, women, it might help you lose/maintain your weight, but you'll look like a hag by the time you are 40. My best friend's mother started smoking at 15. At 50, she still had the same body she had at 15, despite two pregnancies, but she looked 70. Very sad.
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@17 -- Nothing. If you're nine years old. If you're in your twenties or, please not, your thirties, it's a signal that you think Harvey Wallbangers are sophisticated.
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@16: Maybe they wear that nail polish and lank hair so people like you won't hit on them. Seems to be working so far, so mission accomplished, ladies!
Also: Kelly is right.
Also: Kelly is right.
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@16: My apologies, I didn't get the memo that my cosmetic decisions were supposed to be based around the goal of getting your dick hard. I'll let my husband know that despite his enjoyment of blue polish on his graduate student wife and mother of his kid, SOME DUDE ON THE INTERNET thinks it looks tacky, and therefore I must stop.
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Self-abuse is fine. Irony is fine. Nihilism yeah whatever.
These ladies need some place to spend their willingness to risk.
Hard to take them serious, blue & stringy, or hot hot hot.
Smoke your health away, go ahead. But not for nothing.
That's what's Wrong.
These ladies need some place to spend their willingness to risk.
Hard to take them serious, blue & stringy, or hot hot hot.
Smoke your health away, go ahead. But not for nothing.
That's what's Wrong.
29
Kelly, you take good people pictures.
Also - smoking alone makes a woman unattractive in my eyes. I absolutely don't care about anything else - including blue nail polish and stuffed animals. Regardless of everything else, if the girl smokes, forget it.
Also - smoking alone makes a woman unattractive in my eyes. I absolutely don't care about anything else - including blue nail polish and stuffed animals. Regardless of everything else, if the girl smokes, forget it.
32
What's wrong with that picture? The poor woman has taken in so much carbon monoxide from her cigarette that it turned her fingers blue! Quick, get her an oxygen mask and a pulse oximeter!
33
Yes, roll your eyes at the lung cancer thing, because the truly terrible thing about smoking is that you'll smell bad to the boys, and have yellow teeth that the boys don't like, and cellulite (boys don't like that either), and wrinkles, also disliked by boys.
So, the biggest concern here is in attracting the boys. Lung cancer? Whatev... don't make me roll my pretty, pretty eyes at you and the boys.
So, the biggest concern here is in attracting the boys. Lung cancer? Whatev... don't make me roll my pretty, pretty eyes at you and the boys.
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@ 33 - it's not so much vanity, it's just that most smokers don't BELIEVE the cancer thing will really happen. At least not to them, and not right away... Ask a smoker.
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I would have to agree with comment 22. The biggest problem with these pictures is that you probably didn't ask any of these ladies if you could publish their photo on the Internet to be publicly ridiculed by you and your commenters.
39
"The truly terrible thing about smoking is that you'll smell bad to the boys, and have yellow teeth that the boys don't like, and cellulite (boys don't like that either), and wrinkles, also disliked by boys."
Don't be fatuous. You'll also smell bad to the girls, and have yellow teeth that girls don't like and cellulite, and wrinkles, which girls don't like either.
What is it? Does liking/having a penis somehow make your sense of smell better? How does that work, exactly?
It's phallocentric bullshit to suggest lesbians can't smell as well as straight people or gay men. Fuck you for suggesting that women are too weak with their little girly girl noses to be offended by the smell of cigarette smoke, or can't be shallow enough to hate wrinkles and cellulite. Lesbians can be just as petty and shallow as everybody else, and you're a fucking bigoted asshole for suggesting they can't.
Don't be fatuous. You'll also smell bad to the girls, and have yellow teeth that girls don't like and cellulite, and wrinkles, which girls don't like either.
What is it? Does liking/having a penis somehow make your sense of smell better? How does that work, exactly?
It's phallocentric bullshit to suggest lesbians can't smell as well as straight people or gay men. Fuck you for suggesting that women are too weak with their little girly girl noses to be offended by the smell of cigarette smoke, or can't be shallow enough to hate wrinkles and cellulite. Lesbians can be just as petty and shallow as everybody else, and you're a fucking bigoted asshole for suggesting they can't.
40
I found smoking gross even as an impressionable youth. That smell. Hard to imagine why anyone starts.
41
@ a lot of replies. Just think about the way you smell. It even comes out in your sex juices. And kiss on the mouth? Uhhhhhgghhh. No wonder you get treated like a come rag. And how about us standing downwind? Ruin a perfectly good high and contaminate the smell of better herbs. When it is all over, the clothes have that awful stench instead of that nice perspiring body having had fun smell. Separate wash. Not at all cool nor groovy. Can't say enough against it. And blue fingernails - who are you with, Ken Doll?
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@9 is correct.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, your bf can tell when you "just snuck a quick cigarette" so that nobody would know.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, your bf can tell when you "just snuck a quick cigarette" so that nobody would know.
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@16: me and my 30-something purple and green fingernails don't give a shit if you think we're attractive. Have you ever considered that women do things because they we want to, not because we want you to fuck us?
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Reason to quit #1: At $7 on the low end and as high as $10 a pack, dropping my pack-a-day addiction freed up enough cash for a new car.
Reason to quit #2: health concerns aside, smoking turned me into a terrible, thoughtless, disgusting LITTERER. Tossing my butts all over creation was my secret shame.
Took three tries, so if you don't quit the first time, don't give up.
Reason to quit #2: health concerns aside, smoking turned me into a terrible, thoughtless, disgusting LITTERER. Tossing my butts all over creation was my secret shame.
Took three tries, so if you don't quit the first time, don't give up.
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@39,
Chill out.
Yeah, they'll smell/look bad to the girls too. Happy now?
P.S. you missed the point.
Chill out.
Yeah, they'll smell/look bad to the girls too. Happy now?
P.S. you missed the point.
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