What is everyone's opinions of the term "shallow"?

Shallow is that pretty woman you meet that has no passion or vigor in life except for hair, nails, and accessories.

Hahahaha I misread that as “Swallow”
I think about shallow water waves.

Shallow usually seems to be a general description of the quality of character of someone that you do not like. Usually because you want to believe that they are dumber than you.

It’s usually a word used to demean someone’s intelligence or depth of understanding. It is particularly associated with a person who only looks at surfaces, and not the hidden depths.

My opinion is that it is a useful term.

People who tabloids and get all excited about Justin Bieber’s possible proposal to Selena Gomez, Angelina Jolie’s 600 calorie a day diet, Oprah’s weight gain/loss, Alicia Silverstone’s minuscule cellulite, etc.

And people who get hot and bothered about similar afflictions affecting others around them in their own lives. The maximum extent of their conversations usually involves bad things happening to others, fictional and not.

Shallow can mean different stuff to different people.

A guy recently called me “shallow” because I told him that I only date men who are taller than me, about 6ft tall. He called me shallow because of this. I am definitely not shallow at all but this is just my preference.

Shallow to me is someone who does not give a crap at all about the inside of a person.

I feel like a lot of rap and pop music today is pretty shallow.

Shallow, to me, means only interested in exterior appearances. That’s the only way it makes sense to me. There is no desire to explore the depth of who a person is, or what kind of person they are inside, but that only the very surface can hold their attention.

What is deep exactly? For to understand a conceptual term, one must look at its opposite.

Weeping like a baby when your fave celebrity dies.

I have shed a tear when a favourite hero/celebrity has died. Tragic circumstances, be they happening to a loved one or an admired person – can cause watering of the eye. And I could kick your ass. So?

Whispering sweet nothings again are we?

You know it.

I read that like you said it in the voice of Michael Jackson when singing Bad.
Yes he’s dead, now dry your eyes.

That’s how I voiced it – OW! Hee hee – you know me so well. Are we still on topic?

Most people think I’m pretty deep, but really I’m quite shallow. I am definitely into appearances. And sex. I’m such a horn dog, it even makes me sick. Well, not really, but on the behalf of moral religionists everywhere I am absolutely shocked and appalled at how much sex appeal is like pretty much my major concern when it comes to women.

People may think I’m being ironic or something; maybe tongue in cheek, but I assure you that all my pretensions at depth are a sham. A means to an end. Girls like depth, so I pretend to be deep. Really, it’s all about sex and love and rock and roll for me. Except instead of rock and roll I like world music. Ya dig?

Oh, and just so you know. Any guy who tells you it isn’t about sex is a bald-eagled liar!

<<< Bald eagle liar.

It might be simpler to say what shallow isn’t, but is mistaken as; however, I will give it from my perspective. To me shallow is pretty shallow in meaning. To me it means someone who judges a worth of someone on some exterior or status attribute, such as, a celebrity believing they are better or superior just because they are well-known. Or someone who because of all the designer or named brand gear they have thinks more of themselves than they ought. To like something or someone who fits a particular idea or desire is not shallow; we choose just about everything we do, buy or eat because of how we like it and how it looks. Many people want to drop the “shallow bomb” on someone because that someone they believe should be open to them, isn’t, because they don’t meet that person criteria for a date, a relationship etc. Instead of worrying about that they should focus on the many more people of whom criteria they do fit.