One day, scanning the headlines, I saw a title, “The weird thing that makes you sexier (You probably already doing it!).” Curious, to see if I finally have a sexy trait in this fast changing world, I clicked on it. It is a Glamour blog post. To my great delight, I’m attractive!
- 40 percent of people would have a more positive opinion of someone after learning they recycled. That’s way more than those who would take more kindly to someone after finding out they have a graduate degree (25 percent), an impressive job (18 percent), or even a bank account with beaucoup bucks (8 percent).
- More than 21 percent of people surveyed would be turned off if someone they were on a first date with doesn’t recycle.
- At 22 percent, almost a quarter of those polled have shown disappointment when someone did not recycle in front of them.
- Two in five respondents want an S.O. who cares about the environment.
Although, I can’t find the survey itself, I found the PepsiCo Recycling Facebook page. The survey was done by PepsiCo, the research team behind the survey polled more than 1,140 Americans over the age of 18. This is huge! This means that the next time I attend a party, I can talk about recycling, and to further impress the person, I’ll perform the actual act of depositing a plastic bottle into the blue bin. For everybody who will be attending Christmas and New Year Eve parties out there, this should be the topic of discussion. Especially on New Year Eve, impress that hottie before midnight enough to get that ringing in the New Year kiss.
What is more important is anthropological meaning behind this. This means that the environment is becoming extremely important to the average person. As the saying goes, “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” Attraction depends heavily on current times. There was a time when fat was beautiful, some societies now still believe it today. Fat means the person doesn’t have to work hard, has more than enough food, and most likely has money. As recent as the 70’s in the USA, men like women to be curvaceous and not skinny, as shown in past advertisements. Today, there are major debates on supermodels depicting extremely skinny women and Barbie dolls giving young girls a misconception of body image. Not only women, men as well, body image for men is important too, which is why I find this Honest Trailer of “300” to be extremely hilarious. Especially the narration saying, “[T]he movie that made guys everywhere feel out of shape.” Watch the trailer, the male images depicted in the movie is quite self-explanatory.
What does this survey tell us? I think it is more in the, I can’t see people actually talk about it up front and use it as a pickup line, “Hello gorgeous, I like the way how you recycle.” I’ve done Match.com, have never seen it listed as a trait or hobby, “My favorite hobby is making sure that all my trash is separated properly into paper, plastic, compose, and landfill.” Therefore, it is more in the subconscious, it’s not something people do to enhance their looks or use materials to show off status.
It is just too simple to pass up. People work hard to impress others, such as spending large sums of money on super cars, workout at gyms to achieve a certain body image, get good grades in school, get hired by prestigious firms, post achievements instantaneously on Instagram, and the list goes on and on. Recycling, however, can be done without a lot of work, and it’s so impressive already, more than a graduate degree, impressive job, and having lots of money.
We are ready! Our environment can be saved! We just need the little nudge, with political and industry support, to squarely put us into that direction. That’s where the big changes will be.
Keeping up the holiday spirit: http://youtu.be/S6AAdFMGoJ0?list=PLE7E8EB7C18B2E04A
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