What Do We Call “Normal?” - Page 3

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

When trendy marketing hype gets to a ridiculous point, I just put the package back on the shelf and move on.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

amyb · ‎04-05-2010

@godi wrote:
Pretty soon it will all be generic labels.

Can't say what I'm literally thinking, because it'll put this rational discussion out of commission...but..

it does give me pause...when I picture that...reminds me of countries others have fled to America from....

(all that label changing is insane too)

Generic everything? Sad. On so many levels.

I'll be using the actual correct word for "normal" skin...it still applys. It IS normal in the way it is intended here...ie. balanced, not oily or dry.

It's not the same as someone saying "that's not normal" to someone about their way of life, for instance...to which people often respond...well, "what's Normal?" "says who?"

this is SKIN TYPE!

🙄

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

Skin can be dry, oily, combination...very few times the term "normal" is used.

RollTide2008 · ‎02-14-2017

I don’t know that is really a PC thing. I think it’s marketing. Shampoo doesn’t come in dry, normal, oily any more. It comes in moisturizing, volumizing, color treated, color repair, toning. There’s enough categories everything has a descriptor. Same with body wash and soap.

KaySD · ‎08-16-2016

Okay, I peeked in my thesaurus and found the following--made me laugh to think of incuding any of them in advertising--you, too, maybe, if you're a word nerd:

ordinary, standard, usual, normal, typical, regular, unexceptional, mediocre, second-rate, uninspired, undistinguished, ordinary, commonplace, middle-of-the-road, mainstream, unexceptional, unexciting, unremarkable, unmemorable, indifferent, humdrum, nothing special, everyday, bland, run-of-the-mill, not very good, pedestrian, prosaic, lackluster, forgettable, amateur, amateurish; acceptable, passable, all right, adequate, fair, middling, moderate, tolerable; North American garden-variety; informal OK, so-so, bog-standard, fair-to-middling, (plain) vanilla, nothing to write home about, nothing to get

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

And that's okay, I still consider myself normal and sorry if it offends anyone.

KarenQVC · ‎05-13-2010

You don't have to be careful unless you are out in the public. No one I know cares about the small things. And I come from the crowd who would care.

Harpa · ‎03-10-2010

I don't have any aversion calling normal, "balanced." I have balanced hair and balanced skin.

Normal, though, is much more open to interpretation when you are speaking of relationships, taste, the psyche, and so on.

BarbiHollywood · ‎11-09-2011

@Lali1 wrote:
@amyb wrote:
My humble, "fatigued" on ALL this, opinion (and I'm not baiting or fighting, Q, though I'm sure some will think I am)...but I just simply feel that soon...we are not going to understand what anything is anymore. We've jumped the shark on this. I believe, we as a society, culture...are shooting ourselves in the foot. Nothing will be communicated right, everything supposedly needs to be "redefined" it's all, imho, flippin' insane. And becoming too confusing. ...not to mention, in many cases, for really no purpose or effective "change."

Normal to dry skin to me means not Oily, not overly Dry. ie. Neither of the extremes. Balanced. Insults no one. insane.
The sad thing is it's a small percentage of people who are pushing these ridiculous new rules. These people have far far too much time on their hands and I am convinced are unhappy people.

@Lali1 Yup. The majority has to conform to the minority now. Our society is doomed.