"Rate Me" Posts

I see these posts everywhere. People, usually women, who are asking random people on the internet to validate their existence by rating how they look. They are usually titled "Rate Me" or "Am I Cute" or "Would You Do Me?" The person posting these topics knows the outcome before they even post it.
Especially if you post something like this on Fet, you know there will be someone out there who has a fetish for whatever you don't like about yourself. So you know you will get positive reactions to the picture you post for "rating." And, usually, if the person does not think you are as hot as you think, they will just not reply. So, in essence, you will get nothing but positive replies to your pictures.
Why would someone post things like this? They have little to no self confidence, usually. A woman can be the hottest person on earth and still have no confidence. Some may call people who create these posts attention whores, and that may be true, too.
If they are on Fet posting these things, and they have a partner, the partner may not tell them enough what he or she likes about the person, or the personmay not believe their partner.
Not having enough confidence in yourself to even get dressed in the morning is a bitch. I have been there. When I see these people making these posts, I feel nothing but sadness for them. How sad it must be to feel so alone in the world that you need to be validated by strangers on the internet.
When I see these posts on sites like CafeMom, I can only think two things, either attention whore who wants to show off that she might look better than others, or a woman who has had kids and is no longer confident in her body and her partner doesn't tell her he still finds her attractive. How sad that is. To feel there is no other place to be told you are worthy of attraction than to ask strange women to rank your body.
I have been in the position of no confidence, thinking you are not worthy of anything. Asking for validation from random strangers is not the way to improve your feelings about yourself. You have to get up and look at yourself in the mirror, really look at yourself, and make a list of the things you like about yourself, both physical and nonphysical, before you can begin to love yourself again. Write the list on a sheet of paper and tape it to the mirror if you have to, reading it every time you look at your reflection. Self validation is worth a lot more than validation from people on the 'net who are just going on the physical.