What is beauty? Why is this world obsessed with beauty? ?

[Anonymous]

It is a pathetic way of measuring your worth in the eyes of another. How can one person or the majority decide who is beautiful and who is not? Why are people all over the world being driven to adopt standards of beauty? Why do we have beauty pageants? The world is making people want to "look beautiful" but not "be beautiful." The world is making the new generation self- conscious about external looks. The majority of people are becoming superficial. There is no depth in people. True beauty is not in how we look. It is in how we love, care, and share

[MrOracle]

What we call "beauty" is really just a refined version of creatures having evolved to being most attracted to potential mates that have outward signs of health and good genetics. You will find this same behavior in most creatures on Earth. If you breed with someone who has poor health, your chances of having healthy children is reduced (especially for all of history prior to WWII), which means your lack of attraction to visible signs of health isn't likely to be passed on to another generation. It's Natural Selection 101.

The real problem is not that we recognize beauty, it's that too many people make it their primary, if not ONLY priority, when selecting a partner, and that is wrecking relationships across the world. The media, in all forms, bears great responsibility for this, but even more has been social media, which aggressively promotes beauty over substance. In so many ways, social media - and specifically the algorithms used to promote beauty - are a poison to our values. That's really what needs to be talked about.

[Hairylegs222]

People that see the big picture of things already know this. Simple narrow minded people mainly focus and care about their looks.

Keep in mind though there's professions that are only focused on beauty, or in that category. For example models. Even though she's a model, she has a personality behind the good looks and is more then just a hot model. Some people don't see that though and that's sad. That goes with any hot girl.

In this society, especially for women, there's pressure we feel towards looks. A woman naturally attracts some guys from her looks (at 1st until getting to know her) so that right there can easily be a big deal to many girls.

You make good points though. There's more to each individual person then just their looks. I like to see each person as a whole. Everything they are.

[Cherry234]

Beauty is subjective. It's in the eye of the beholder. That's why people can be attracted to people who aren't considered generally attractive if they have good qualities. Those people are beautiful on the inside. I think there are beauty standards and people want to look a certain way because if they don't they feel inadequate and feel like they don't measure up. That's my educated guess

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Beauty is defined different by different people.. As cliche as it is, there's a reason for the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".. That could apply to the beauty of people, the beauty of nature, the beauty of life... Life is beautiful for some, but certainly not all...

[DonkeyDan]

The media is largely responsible for the image of beauty and who they choose to be models, appear on the front cover of a magazine etc. I do believe in beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Many people would consider the women I find attractive not attractive to them. That's fine, because if we all found the same people attractive, we'd all be going after the same people.

[DaveJord]

Well I don't think at the individual level we can dictate what one person perceives or defines as beauty. As the saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the be holder.

I think I deal with beautiful people every day, but that does not mean I want to bang them. But I see physically attractive people everyday that look beautiful, and I totally would bang without knowing them at all... so what is beauty and what does it mean to you?

[Halibut]

Beauty is that which our lizardlike brains says is appealing. It is superficial... but people are superficial in many ways. It's our nature. Being charming, I'd say, can be just as superficial of a quality as being pretty. Both being pretty and being charming can be due to a mixture of inborne genetic traits and effort. Like most things, it can be a useful tool to use. It can also be something harmful, and should be ignored when it becomes harmful.

[loves2learn]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder, depending on how you look at it. 😂

[ElizaPam]

I don't have a clue I don't particularly care about how I look but then again I'm getting old in woman years

[Aurora1010]

Yeah sometimes I think that too although I admit I'm a little bit superficial sometimes too, but you're right

[Woke51]

I don't think those have to be mutually exclusive. You can take care of your body and your mind at the same time.

[exitseven]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That being said it is constantly evolving. I think today, women with more athletic bodies are considered more attractive than they did 20 years ago.

[SenseiSeptred]

Charisma and Beauty are two separate ability scores that characters and people have if they go from a Dungeons and Dragons perspective.

[zagor]

I'm afraid bias towards beauty goes back more than a few generations. It is even in the animal world, with different standards of course.

[Iron_Man]

I can tell you it’s not overrated it’s the number one attraction that gets your foot in the door

[TheAfrikan]

For me beauty just got no definition. Since beauty can be used in different ways i. e describing a person or there ways

[noohair]

I think it started several hundred thousand years ago.

[888theGreat]

Because that is the movies and TV ads and selling makeup

[This_Is_My_Opinion8]

A social construct.

[malwins]

true

[Anonymous]

Superficial.