I just entered this tanning contest thinger! Oh Boy!

[CathyBogart]

Yeesh, you guys. I can see why so many people are leaving PT.

Coco-bean: Good luck in the contest! Let us know if you wind up on any posters!

My friends would look at me wierd if I tanned, I'm goth and happy to be pale.

[BOBS DAD]

Yeesh, you guys. I can see why so many people are leaving PT.

Coco-bean: Good luck in the contest! Let us know if you wind up on any posters!

My friends would look at me wierd if I tanned, I'm goth and happy to be pale.

Cathy,

Interesting angle!!! I was always curious about the Goth thing. Have a neighbor girl who is in to the whole Goth look. She seems very nice and always says hello - she just looks weird to us who don't understand it. I guess like alot of things, you are naturally wary of that which you don't regularly see.

[Daisy and Delilah]

For the record;
I don't see anybody here bashing coco-bean for her lifestyle. As MG stated(very well, I might add), we are older and have seen what skin cancer can do to a person. No one is angry at coco-bean for what she wants to do. We are merely having a healthy discussion of these issues so she is aware of what some of us older members have seen or experienced. If we weren't concerned about her welfare, we wouldn't have bothered.

The contest she's in deals with tanning lotions for the most part. I have fully realized that and I have PM'd her to apologise to her in case I may have offended her. I have given her my congratulations in the contest and she has accepted graciously. If anyone wants to know, she was not upset with my comments and thanked me for replying. As far as I know, she is handling this whole thread with a positive attitude. The outcome is bothering some of you much more than it's bothering her.

If a healthy, informative discussion such as this is making people leave PT then I hope they're happy wherever they go. This is what makes the world go round. When I can't express my opinion or respond to something on this forum and feel it's my right, then I'll leave PT. I think it's time that some of us become more thick skinned and stop seeing everything as bashing someone.

Some of you may need to consider giving some people the benefit of the doubt before quickly deciding they're wrong. Some of us really do care about people and are only offering evidence of certain situations that may happen in certain scenarios.