Have You Noticed A Lot More Americans Look Like A Hot Mess?
By: Joy Pullmann (The Federalist)
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Pajama- and lingerie-wearing customers used to appear mostly at the lowest-end Walmarts and convenience stores. But this summer, it's looking like the People of Walmart crowd has dramatically increased.
They're at Target, at Sam's Club, in the malls. They're at Trader Joe's, hip little trans-friendly burger shops, and the farmer's market. To anyone hitting the beach this summer, have you noticed there, too, what seems like a dramatic increase in whole naked butt cheeks and antisocial narcissists blaring their music?
For Gen Z and others who didn't catch the site years ago, the blog People of Walmart posts humorous pictures of people whose life choices clearly began going south many years before they ended up making a spectacle of themselves in public. The joke was that people would actually go out not just nearly naked — they do that everywhere now — but in the most unappealing states of near-nakedness, as well as otherwise visibly portraying inner disarray.
The People of Walmart vibe means shockingly overweight, slippers and pajamas 24/7, months of uncombed hair, congealing tattoos, clothes that can only be described as dumpster-fire skank or "nothing smaller than a bedsheet will cover me," a muddy rainbow of hair shades, or combinations of the above plus other sartorial horrors.
Here are some examples from the blog. Trigger warning.
Tall not dark and skinned toned? Fashion is a little bit weird nowadays. pic.twitter.com/f96IiXpdVx
— People of Walmart (@PeopleofWalmart) August 26, 2021
Apparently he ate all the goods that were supposed to be delivered at Walmart. pic.twitter.com/jn8GknPDoU
— People of Walmart (@PeopleofWalmart) August 26, 2021
Of course, highly unattractive near-nakedness is the tip of a growing anti-beauty iceberg. Again, trigger warning: These yucky images may make you laugh too hard to continue reading this article.
Can't spice it up in the bedroom if you can't first spice it up in public….Wait a second. I'm getting news in right now. Turns out that is absolutely false. Sorry. pic.twitter.com/5JfzjzS90X
— People of Walmart (@PeopleofWalmart) January 14, 2020
Outside highly groomed corporate media, trans cosplay is ugly as sin. (Screengrab from People of Walmart)
One understands people down on their luck deserve some pity and discretion. Also, having been pregnant six times, I can certainly understand the rare need to visit Walmart or the drug store in a sickly state of mind and body.
But a state of constant hot messiness seems to be expanding well beyond the Walmarts that serve the Third World "refugees" federal and state governments have resettled into our communities against Americans' consent. In my town, at least, it looks like public slovenliness and disarray have become more of a norm than a subculture.
Today, the average person is far fatter (and I'm not talking pleasantly plump). There are many more visible disfigurements such as piercings and tattoos. More people are dressing androgynously and even overtly cross-dressing, which is just plain ugly. To put it succinctly, suddenly lots of people don't look very good. At all.
This is notable because there is indeed a correlation between one's outward appearance and our inner state. I'm not talking about the things people can't control, like being born with Grandpa's large nose or a broader body frame than most women.
I'm talking about the things people can control, like wearing clothing that fits, not being dangerously overweight, washing regularly, deciding to stop eating corn syrup, and refusing to deface one's body. All people have better and worse versions of themselves, and lately it seems a shockingly large number of people are descending into the latter.
Antisocial Policies
What could have happened in the last three years to produce such strikingly visible expressions of inner chaos and duress? It's like there was a mass repression of human rights that stole people's habits, routines, reasons to get up and get dressed in the morning, and connections to their communities.
As with many other issues, it seems that here lockdowns accelerated a preexisting trend. Even before lockdowns, obesity rates were at an all-time high. Nearly half of Americans were taking at least one prescription drug, and a quarter were taking three or more. Unprecedented numbers of people were being diagnosed with autism, autoimmune disorders, and allergies.
Family chaos as measured by broken or never-formed marriages was at historical highs. So was the number of American adults taking medication for mental illnesses. In fact, in 2020, nearly one-quarter of all Americans — including some babies — were taking psychiatric medications. In the late-aughts, the latest data available, American women were trending dramatically less happy than in the 1970s.
Of course, many factors go into making much higher proportions of Americans a hot, sad mess. But it's obvious lockdowns accelerated, and likely amplified, terrible preexisting trends. It will take years to quantify the damage, but just go outside and look around. It's visible in Americans' bodies, in their clothing, in their behavior, and in their faces.
Deliberate Ugliness
What's also different about this saturated ugliness is not only the lack of even a little embarrassment that might motivate change, but also the aggressive cultural messaging promoting it. Rather than being alarmed into productive action by so many Americans' evident disarray, despair, and dishevelment, our culture controllers instead legitimize inner and outer chaos.
We've seen the pro-obesity campaigns. I can't find new clothing now without being embarrassed for the models showing the options to me. Again, nobody minds realistically dappled skin or non-Barbie-shaped thighs. In fact, I support that and find such images encouraging.
But advertising and movies are now going far beyond showing realistic imperfections or the diversity of beauty to pushing truly repulsive images. We're not being encouraged to find beauty in reality, but to believe that what's ugly is in fact beautiful.
They're Doing It on Purpose
This is not an accident, it's cultural warfare. As Chris Rufo explained earlier this year, leftist academics have created an entire thoughtworld celebrating grotesqueness for ideological ends. They openly aim "to displace the old society with what might be called a 'queer-normative society,' a 'fat-normative society,' a 'mental-illness-normative society.'" The ultimate goal is an "anti-normative society."
The goal is to achieve an inversion and the hegemony of a non-normative ideal, which you see valorized in the academic literature on all these different axes — gender, sexuality, body type, or psychological health.
…We might categorize this new ideal as a "gender-neutral, non-binary, obese, mentally disturbed, 'they/them' pronoun user, operating as a radically autonomous individual that is totally disconnected from any of the traditional bonds, relationships, and constraints."
I'm not saying the People of Walmart are activists aiming to bring about a non-normative society. While they certainly bear responsibility for their life choices just like the rest of us, they've also been victimized by our cultural leaders, who share significant blame for the obvious decay of our society.
Elites are leaders. They point their culture in certain directions. A pro-norms elite would celebrate beauty, health, and virtues that tend to result in a beautiful and healthy culture, such as self-discipline, sacrifice, restraint, patience, and courage.
Our elite instead celebrate self-indulgence, laziness, and degeneracy. They obliterate aspirational ideals and attack mental health-protecting, commitment-based associations such as marriage, the natural family, and church. They even attack reality itself, such as the existence of men and women, standards of beauty, life choices that promote health, and the obviously horrific outcomes of free-for-all sex.
So it's no wonder that people subjected to decades of systematic dehumanization and de-naturalization would reflect their social architecture. Destroying norms damages people, and it damages the most vulnerable people the most. That's why you can find so many of these sad and confused folks at Walmart.
Increasingly, though, it's not just Walmart. It's everywhere. The "let them eat cake" ruling class doing this to America doesn't deserve to be in charge of anything, ever.
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They hate the culture, they hate the people and they hate the country.
And here they come. It must be 11 AM.
Lol. Have you ever seen a Trump rally?! What a fucking joke this seed is.
Have you ever seen a California city?
leftist academics have created an entire thoughtworld celebrating grotesqueness for ideological ends
Damn those leftists!
Dont laugh. She might be in his second administration.
Couldn't be any worse than the "escort" that is filling the VP position.
Yup.
We know that you haven't. Your comment is a total fucking joke.
I know you are out there and as you always tell us, you only look at the state's natural beauty & climate.
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The state's big cities don't seem to interest you. Here maybe I can help you out with some pictures of those progressive pig pens:
This is San Francisco, where homeless encampments are welcome:
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This is Los Angeles, which is about 1,000 cops short these days:
https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrNPH1LlrZk3m8c.C2JzbkF;_ylu=c2VjA3NyBHNsawNpbWcEb2lkAzNlZDM0MjM2Y2IyMDAxODRlYWIwNmY4OGRlNzM4MGExBGdwb3MDMQRpdANiaW5n?
And here is San Diego, which we held out some hope for:
Your POS Governor put the idea of reparations in the minds of black voters before stepping away to be the successor to Biden should Joe be found babbling in a corner somewhere. Newsom will get the black vote but CA will suffer a lot of racial strife. That is how democrats play the game.
CA is a national disgrace.
This is Georgia:
Georgia is a national disgrace.
This is Florida:
Florida is a national disgrace.
This is North Carolina:
North Carolina is a national disgrace.
This is Texas:
Texas is a national disgrace.
Where are the links?
Am I the only one who must provide links?
Oh look here . The required "but Trruuummmmppppp" comment.
The inability to tell the difference between shopping at Walmart and a political rally ain't rational. Only a simpleton would equate the two.
It’s clearly where Trumptards do their shopping.
It must be more than just them, between DC, Fairfax County and the separate cities of Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax City, the region voted overwhelming for Biden yet 14 Walmart stores there are doing well.
I used to live in Herndon and frequented Alexandria, Springfield, Reston, etc., and the only place you’d ever see these creatures was the rare outing to Walmart. It was a mystery to me where they came from. Now I live in the country and it’s obvious how much my wife and I stick out like a sore thumb in terms of dress and politics. When we go vote at our polling place it is just embarrassing who we are surrounded by. It’s a line of people in Mickey Mouse pajama bottoms, dirty tee shirts and mullets.
Yes, clothing that I find inappropriate for the activity can be seen in rural areas in the region as well as the urban areas in Southeast DC and neighboring Prince George's County. We have all kinds here.
Is that really worse than some toothless yahoo waving a confederate flag with the word "TRUMP" on it?
Dentistry is outrageously expensive. You have to choose between having teeth and having a house. And Biden throwing more money at the rich basterds ain't gonna make either healthcare or housing more affordable.
BTW, how do you know that's a Confederate flag? There's no need to make assumptions about the troman at Walmart.
I see the lefts ability to stay on topic is nonexistent
That’s because the topic is flagrantly incorrect.
It surely isn't what you made it out be.
What we are seeing is the bowels of human fetish on public display. It's a small group of disturbed but the stories seem to get the clicks.
"Also, having been pregnant six times ..."
Well bravo honey, now stfu and go litter the world with more ... @!@
For when you’ve run out of things to judge in other people.
Is that even possible, will folks here ever run out of reasons to judge others more harshly than them selves?
From the looks of things, no.