Why do some people do degrading things to themselves in order to get notice?

Here are the comments from a true, not ersatz, pontificator upon seeing a woman using her oversized bosom like a wrecking ball:

1. Deep from inside every human lurks a desire to be a standout. The woman fulfills that desire by transforming an oversized asset, in fact an inverted liability, to an object of mixed feelings: awe, disgust, humor, and a weapon of mass destruction of any romantic feeling for the human female's prime asset of attraction. Sex is very private and mysterious. A person's reaction to anything connected with sex (e.g. posting and viewing X-rated materials on the Internet) speaks volumes of the dark recesses of his mind.

2. In her quest to get notice, she overcame human natural instinct of fear of ridicule.

3. Humans laugh at almost anything.

4. The black judge showed his deep sense of aesthetics and decorum in his reactions to the freak show. He was horrified by it. Unlike many others in the audience, he was not delighted. His body language said it all. He often turned both his body and his eyes away from the demonstration. His facial expressions registered horror, disgust, and disbelief. He represented his racial heritage well: nice looking face and physique and he could not bring himself to check for himself if the boobs were for real as the other two judges did. Instead, he ran away from the over-bosomy woman. He had my deep respect. At this late stage of my life, all of a sudden, true dignity, not false pride (some small minds never think of apologies because they think that by apologizing they would do violence to their dignity. Little do they know the opposite is what reality is. So, they laugh at my penchant for apologizing. I do so because I respect fairness and justice, not because I don't respect myself. Oops, no complain, no explain. However, sometimes explanation has to be provided so the not-so-intelligent folks can understand, hopefully) means something to me.

5. We must, yours truly included, guard ourselves against the possibility of doing things to degrade and humiliate ourselves in order to get a little laugh, a little notice, or to show contempt.