Oh shallow world.

It is very late, and I am awake because I am deeply troubled.

Silly as it sounds, all of this restlessness stems from something I watched earlier. It was about a television presenter who is worried that her career is going nowhere, and was considering 'lads mag photoshoots'. The program concluded that she was too silly to be sexy.

Now my problem is this: If a beautiful, intelligent woman is discarded for her sense of humour, where is the hope for the rest of us? I'm not sure what I have to give personally to the world, but I've always assumed that I'd somehow get ahead with my identity intact. Sure, television is a cruel industry, there are a lot of those. But, this is a shallow place now, where we are.

I'm not sharing this thought with whoever reads it to make a statement on feminism (as much as I am a supporter of that cause) but because I am genuinely concerned that society has started to forget about the good in people. Commodification seems to have reached a level none of us can ever hope to control, and a consensus on what is beautiful and what is good rules sovereign. There has always been prejudice, and limits on what certain people can achieve for completely unfair reasons. But now, easy, consumable entertainment is all the public seems to care about.

It's getting tough out there.