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In reply to the discussion: National Tell a Girl She’s Beautiful Day is pure bullshit, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. [View all]DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Believe it or not, a person who is beautiful on the outside can also be smart and talented and good and generous. People are beautiful for so many reasons.
One boy I dated for years in high school was probably technically ugly - if you didn't know him and watch his humor light up his eyes and mouth as he watched the world around him. Or the beautiful way he moved when he walked and ran.
He was also not the smartest person, in a book sense, I ever dated. But he had the most common sense of anyone. And his basic goodness just showed in everything he did.
So, he was beautiful. If it were me, I'd tell any young person like him they're beautiful. And mean it, no matter what they might look like in a photograph to a stranger.
As far as the use of the word girl, girls do exist. They grow into women with the passage of time. And unfortunately many girls do have low self esteem because of the superficiality of our culture. Being nice is beautiful. Being yourself is beautiful. Finding out who you are is beautiful. And we should let them know it.