Privilege: it's not there for you to feel perfect

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States

I know I touched upon this subject before here, but I'd figure I'd go a bit further. It seems to me that nowadays, everyone is starting to feel privileged without even having anything to back it up or even having a reason to be. It's getting pretty bad. It seems like the attitude is everywhere, especially when I see some posts on Facebook with the words "be jealous" (I talk about the whole bane of Facebook's existence here). From Wall Street to Main Street, privilege is bringing down people instead of propping them up. Here, I'll show you to get over yourself so you can really get the things you want and show what exactly derivatives are (it's not what you think).

Can't we just all get along? Is the problem really hating others, or hating ourselves?

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How finding the perfect guy can be more fictitous than the Twilight saga (and how a lady can take back power)

"What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets."
- Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Note: As a hardcore gamer, I just have to link to the original speech here, hehe :P

I realize that lately, there has a been a movement in entertainment that's designed to capture the attention of women like Fifty Shades of Grey, the Twilight saga, and Magic Mike. The list goes on. I think it's an interesting direction deviating from the regular formula of let's say Prince Charming coming into a woman's life and sweeping her off her feet by being everything she can want in a man (like in Pretty Woman or Maid in Manhattan). It's based on the whole belief that someday, a man that is handsome, smart, strong, confident, tall, funny, caring, rich, etc. will one day fall into a ladies' lap, and then the pauper gets transformed into a princess. That stuff seems boring and predictable, and I think even ladies have gotten a hold of how unreal that is. So in spite of figuring out how unreal expectations like are when it comes to ladies finding a boyfriend or male partner, it still strikes me how women still tend to be swayed a lot by fiction and how that puts ladies in a self-sabotaging mode when it comes to dating men.