When doing good and looking good part ways, people of good character do the right thing even if it risks making them look bad for some reason. They may try to keep it private, if possible, to protect themselves, but they do the right thing.
In contrast, bad people do whatever is most convenient for enhancing their public reputation, no matter how depraved, so long as they have plausible deniability.
I don't actually know anything about Steve Tyler as a person. I'm passingly familiar with some of his music and music videos, so at the risk of being misunderstood, let's talk a bit about this video: I really love the part where he is naked, except for some body paint and his hand covering his private bits. It's pretty daring and not something you typically see men do in their art.
It's much more common to see women bare it all while strategically covering enough to not get censored -- for which they are often written off as tramps rather than daring artists -- but think about that for a minute: In order to capture that, he had to be NAKED around people doing the body paint, the filming, etc.
A brief clip like that can take HOURS to capture. I imagine most people would not be okay with doing something like that.
I saw him in an interview say something like "I thought it would be cool to have my better half jump out." meaning the little green guy that emerges from the unzipped, darkened half of him. It suggests to me he is someone with a mix of serious personal baggage, good self esteem anyway and a sense of humor who can genuinely laugh about his imperfections while owning them.
Maybe that's just a talented artist fooling me. I don't know the man.
But to me that's the kind of thing a "real man" or decent human being does, someone with character who chooses to be honest, among other things, when push comes to shove.
Decent people aren't perfect. It's not like they never make mistakes.
But you know them by how they own up to their shortcomings and take responsibility for things. And you know bad people by how consistently they hurt people in private with plausible deniability while publicly trying to claim they are good people doing the right thing.
It's always especially nauseating when you find out you were fooled for a long time but someone engaging in depraved behavior while claiming to be one of the good guys. Doubly so if they have cleverly made their victim look like the bad guy all along.
In contrast, bad people do whatever is most convenient for enhancing their public reputation, no matter how depraved, so long as they have plausible deniability.
I don't actually know anything about Steve Tyler as a person. I'm passingly familiar with some of his music and music videos, so at the risk of being misunderstood, let's talk a bit about this video: I really love the part where he is naked, except for some body paint and his hand covering his private bits. It's pretty daring and not something you typically see men do in their art.
It's much more common to see women bare it all while strategically covering enough to not get censored -- for which they are often written off as tramps rather than daring artists -- but think about that for a minute: In order to capture that, he had to be NAKED around people doing the body paint, the filming, etc.
A brief clip like that can take HOURS to capture. I imagine most people would not be okay with doing something like that.
I saw him in an interview say something like "I thought it would be cool to have my better half jump out." meaning the little green guy that emerges from the unzipped, darkened half of him. It suggests to me he is someone with a mix of serious personal baggage, good self esteem anyway and a sense of humor who can genuinely laugh about his imperfections while owning them.
Maybe that's just a talented artist fooling me. I don't know the man.
But to me that's the kind of thing a "real man" or decent human being does, someone with character who chooses to be honest, among other things, when push comes to shove.
Decent people aren't perfect. It's not like they never make mistakes.
But you know them by how they own up to their shortcomings and take responsibility for things. And you know bad people by how consistently they hurt people in private with plausible deniability while publicly trying to claim they are good people doing the right thing.
It's always especially nauseating when you find out you were fooled for a long time but someone engaging in depraved behavior while claiming to be one of the good guys. Doubly so if they have cleverly made their victim look like the bad guy all along.