Peridot's Unique Beauties: An Appreciation Thread

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Some of those are men :dead:
 

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You just negated your own assertion. If there are recurrent preferences then there are in fact standards of beauty.

Let's not pretend like the vast vast majority of us do not much prefer one of these two to the other.

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Who exactly are you speaking For? Vast Majortity =\= All.

Meaning there is nothing that is universally recognized as beautiful. I know people who would prefer Tiny in this comparison.

The same way some people prefer Skechers over Gucci or McDonald's over Filet Mignon or Light Skin over Dark Skin and Dark Skin over light skin or the moon over the sun etc etc.

It's all preference. And just because more people accept something as "beautiful" doesn't actually make it anymore or any less beautiful than something else.

Beauty is subjective.
 

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You just negated your own assertion. If there are recurrent preferences then there are in fact standards of beauty.

Let's not pretend like the vast vast majority of us do not much prefer one of these two to the other.
Beauty is, to a large extent, a social construct. If you were to travel back in time, you would see an ever changing standard of feminine beauty, especially w/r/t weight; most notably the Renaissance period, whose archetypal woman would be considered overweight to us. Even in the 1950s we see a preference for more full figured women. So whatever standard we currently employ is not universal or objective.

 

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We're posting pics. We don't know any of these people. Believe me we're judging only their looks.


Beauty is human interpretation. It wouldn't be asinine if we indeed just found everyone equally attractive or attractive at all.

When the vast majority of society steers the same way on what is beautiful, those who happen to not comply with those standards, those who are the opposite, are what?
I'm not sure, but you only find certain things beautiful because someone told you to find it beautiful. You are programmed by society to find certain things beautiful, as was I. There is no "unlearning" that either.
It's why there's a European standard of beauty that exists in our world anyway.

The only way you could find out what's truly beautiful is if you could somehow start the human race over, and experiment on the very first people. Otherwise, it's impossible.

Beauty changes with time. What's beautiful now, wasn't beautiful in history.

We find models attractive because they're models. Why are they models? Because they are attractive? Why are they attractive because someone said that they fit the mold of what their idea of beauty is.

Everything is preference. Even if a large portion of people agree on one thing, that doesn't make it fact, that makes it an opinion that is heavily agreed upon.
 
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