It's when people go after you not because of who you are, but because of WHAT you are. They want an image, not a soul.
Oh, I already covered this in my objectification post, huh?
Anyway, it generally doesn't work. Who can live up to that image? It's like idolising an actor for what he or she plays in the cinema. It's silly. One is a fictional representation from someones' mind, and the other is a real, flawed, whatever. An idealised paragon verses reality. But people do it all the time.
Sometimes people are so damn tenacious in refusing to give up their illusions, it's insane. The one on the pedestal has to crash pretty hard, and then the one who put him or her there ends up loathing the fallen idol for no fault of their own. I've seen it happen so many times, I lost count.
Have I done it?
Uh, don't I have a right to remain silent?
Or am I in the right country for that?
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