Explain why you thinks it's true or false. Elaborated opinions are appreciated and you can share some scientific facts too.#Beauty
Beauty (definition) = Physical beauty, something that's pleasing to the eye to look at. It may be a person you likes to look at for a long time. It may be attraction, but don't have to be it.
My Opinion:
I think it's proven by science that some features are liked by most people around the globe like symmetry, a healthy appearance, thick hair, clear skin, masculinity/femininity, in a gender, no deformity etc. I still think beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People have different preferences in colors, facial features, body shapes and fashion. Some prefer to date blacks, while others prefer either Asian or whites for instance. In Asia light skin is fashionable, while in the West tan is preferred. In Mauritania they likes fat women, while in the West slim. In some African tribes they use lip plates and do skin scarring. In old China they did foot binding, in old France corsets and so on. Beauty may be a bit evolution, but mostly culturally, a social construct and taught. You gets taught by the celebrities, the wealthy, the media, your friends and families what's beautiful. The societies around the globes have different beauty standards. Yet people have different preferences. Most people thinks Ryan Gosling and Channing Tantum are handsome in the West, but I finds them average looking. I think Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom and Aidan Turner looks good, but many are disagree.
In art we also have different preferences. I likes classical art; both paintings, drawings, sculptures, architecture, some fashion, interior, music etc. I like the aesthetic of much of the ancient, Renaissance, medieval, 1800s and early 1900s arts. I've mixed feelings about the art in modernism, but usually finds post-modern art ugly to look at so I gets a cold feeling of it. I think conceptual art tends to be the most disastrous ones.
Yes (Explain Why)
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It's something in between - not objective/subjective (Explain Why)
I think your analysis was right on, curiousnorway. You cover the issues of health, fitness and symmetry. There are also images promoted in media and film and cultural preferences. Beyond that, preferences are subjective. Some people prefer straight hair, some people prefer curly. Some people like blond or redhead, auburn or black. Some people prefer different skin colors. Some people prefer tall or short. Some guys prefer big boobs or big butts, some like petite women. Some women prefer muscular guys, some not so much. Some women like youthful faces on guys, some like a more rugged look. Clothing and choice of hair style and make up also play a large part in people's preferences. And beyond pure physical appearance, personality can make an ordinary looking person seem very attractive. So can the sound of a person's voice.
It is subjective. We also have our natural proclivities! Most humans can mutually agree that certain people are easier to look at/more attractive. We're wired this way for mating purposes!
Though some may not be attracted to him, nobody can deny that Brad Pitt is a (generally agreed upon) good looking guy. The masses love him!
Though some they may be attracted to him, nobody can deny that this guy is a (generally agreed upon) unattractive guy. Im sure the masses wouldn't care much for him. 😅 Well... For his attractiveness...
@VIVANT - I read something about a bra. Didn't know what you were talking about... đ
- He's not a real person but he does have human characteristics! He has a nose, mouth, eyes, ears, a head, arms, legs, ribs, etc... He doesn't look like your average human and that's my whole point! I wanted to compare what I feel is some of the ugliest to some of the best looking!
- It is a reasonable comparison since we're exploring what makes a person attractive. We've gotta look at both spectrums!
Health has nothing to do with it.. In the west Models typically are not âhealthy âbut people still celeb they are attractive bc we are supposed to think this.
In some countries obesity is considered attractive bc thatâs the cultural norm
Mass Attraction is based on propaganda marketing stereotype and brain washing in my opinion
Otherwise, in natural condition , it is based in connection and chemistry and personal preference coming from personal history and influences.
Neanderthals would think a human is ugly bc they are too dangly and knobby and flat boned.
No, because, as I've said on different Asks before - there is no objective yardstick by which we measure beauty. It wouldn't even matter if we had a worldwide, unanimous agreement on what was/wasn't attractive, it still wouldn't make that concept of beauty objective. You cannot reach objectivity through consensus.
Beauty is objective because we all know what makes a human physically attractive, and if you take someone's personality out of the equation we all know who the best looking humans are. We all know what makes a man or women physically beautiful. However, just because you are not traditionally beautiful does not mean another human cannot be attracted to you. Humans have the ability to ignore obvious physical flaws if the human has a great personality. Attractive personalities are very much so subjective, not everyone will agree on which personality is the most attractive. For instance, I know that Gwyneth Paltrow is ridiculously hot, but I've always been a little irritated by her personality in interviews. For this reason I have never had a crush on her, however, I have had crushes on many other women of varying degrees of physical attractiveness. To recap: beauty is objective, personality is subjective.
@tonicandgin The fact that you can classify them as "weird features" only serves to prove my point that we all know who is traditionally attractive and who is traditionally unattractive. I do not doubt that you are attracted to those people that you describe, in fact, I think a lot of people are attracted to people with "weird features". As humans we can be attracted to people with "weird features" but we know that they have weird features, showing that beauty is subjective. When it comes down to it we can identify who is traditionally attractive and who is traditionally unattractive by identifying who has "weird features" and who does not have "weird features". So attraction is objective but not hopeless. I hope you see the distinction.
if you dont talk to them you don't know if they are attractive personality wise. someone can be conventionally attractive but something can still look "off" with them even if you didn't talk to them
I believe that objectively speaking, there will always be some features on people that the majority will find attractive. However having said that there is also the matter of subjective preference, for example having flowing and luscious hair is seen as objectively attractive yet I, subjectively have a preference for blonde hair. I find it more beautiful yet someone else could find brown or black hair more beautiful. I think beauty can only be objectified to a point and then only speaking broadly like flawless skin or deep eye colours but any time you devolve into specifics then beauty becomes an entirely subjective matter.
Yes & no. Guys generally give the same ratings to women if the women are white (in the U. S.) racial biases complicate things when looking at other racial groups. Also men are suckers for âeye candyâ so a woman who shows a lot of skin will be perceived as better looking than a woman with the same face & body who shows less.
But irl personality matters too.
What a lot of women donât get is that thereâs really only yes and no. A guy could find you âbeautifulâ while simultaneously knowing others look better. But heâs satisfied.
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Anonymous
(25-29)
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I donât think that great hair, great skin, and a good body is considered like subjective, because anyone can get these traits, so it got the right to be objective. When someone have an athletic body and a great skin it doesnât just show an attractive person but someone who take care of himself. I would personally prefer an average looking man, who take care of himself, have good manners over a good looking man who sweat like a pig and use the same towel for feets and face ( gross!). Even if he have the best jawlines he will be immediately unattractive for me! It may sound weird but I never understood the thing about cheek bones but I once had a crush on a guy who was a workaholic and i admired his work ethic at a point where I found his dark circles to be attractive! Seriously! His dark circles appeared to be attractive to me lmao
Yes to an extent, I think since most people are average, some people may consider them either attractive or ugly. The ugly people have disproportionate face features and thatâs why theyâre disregarded as ugly, itâs confusing I know but my point here is:
Average people can be subjectively attractive or ugly
Ugly people arenât subjectively attractive or ugly, theyâre just ugly.
Attractive people arenât subjectively attractive or ugly, theyâre just attractive.
I honestly don't know. I like to believe beauty is subjective. My friends and I tend to disagree about which celebrities are attractive. However, most of my crushes have rejected me for the beautiful women you see on instagram, e. g. perfectly applied makeup, nice hair styles and excessive use of the snapchat dog face filter. So, I don't think you can totally say beauty is subjective as men and women will go for the more attractive person over the less attractive person.
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Anonymous
(36-45)
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It's partly subjective and partly objective. I've just taken a look at the first two girls answers and it looks like they believe that just because the agreement isn't perfect, that means beauty is subjective. I don't think it means that at all. If the opinions are pretty closely aligned then it's mostly objective. If they differ a lot then it's mostly subjective. I suspect that across large groups it's more objective, but obviously as you get people that are closer and closer together in terms of their objective beauty then subjective things matter more.
Yes while it's true like you stated some features / stuff are liked by everyone not everyone is attracted by the same person / features. For example most women in my country like a guy with dark hair and blue eyes but there's also women that prefer red head or blond guys or guys who have dark eyes, etc.. Some would find people with big or unusual nose ugly while others would find them more beautiful.
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Anonymous
(30-35)
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Yes, Because each individual has the ability to look at anything in the world and find different things appealing or not and it's a matter of personal perspective.
The only reason anyone would say it isn't subjective is because there's a social expectation and image for how men and women ought to be or look.
Yes and I agree with you're reasoning too and that there may well be a wide range of preferences, like most people may be attracted to certain features or symmetry or something and the culture thing is a good example.
People like different: hair (length, color, shade of color, style) color of eyes, shape of eyes, size of nose, size of ears, size of lips, shape of face, boob size, skin tones, heights, figures, amount of muscularity, shape of bellybutton, level of hairienessn butt size, shape of butt etc.
It is in the degree to which it is perceived. There are quite few women that I agree they are beautiful but not even close to the level some guys like them. I also been completely smitten by some girls that some of my friends considered just alright.
It is subjective. Averages of opinions aren't objective, 100s of people might think someone is the most beautiful person, but there's still at least one person who won't understand what's so pretty about them.
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Anonymous
(18-24)
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I think so but in the end many people follow beauty standards. Those play a big role in this.
My girl-friends like David Beckham, he fits the standards and I know he's not exactly ugly looking but he's not my type, I prefer something else which partly fits the standarts as well. Complicated I know.
I choosed wrong one, I meant "Yes" I think everyone has their own views on beauty. If you think someone is beautiful, no one can tell you that they are not.
I would say there are 3 types of beauty, the beauty we all appreciate do to our innate biological tendencies, the subjective preferences each individual has (hair colour, eye colour, clothing style, etc), and lastly a societal beauty, what society views as beauty, what it portraits as beauty
Beauty is subjective because some features look better to certain people while others might hate them. Theur is desirable and undesirable features but if a girl has eyes you like but nothing else you like is she beautiful? If she has the perfect face, hair, body, smile but her skin has some ugly marks on it dose that make her ugly?
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