Do you believe pretty and handsome is subjective and a matter of opinion or that is something people say to make non-attractive people feel better?

[Anonymous]

[SynthKobra]

I think there is absolutely a baseline for attractiveness that is simply biological in nature and not just some social construct that many "oppressed" people would have you believe. Like, I wasn't taught to love nice asses. I just did and always have. Nobody ever told me this is what I needed to like. And get this - butts aren't a priority for a lot of guys. But they'd be lying if they didn't look at em. Women love a guy who is tall, big shoulders, nice arms, overall nice physique - some body parts more than others but the point stands.

I think people that feel cheated out of the genetic lottery tend to spout these things more than others.

[DaveJord]

Well yes I do. I will not lie to you looks matter, but just because you are not the most attractive person does not mean you do not have a lot to offer someone. So there is true in the saying, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." I have used that line and attractive people to imply they are full of themselves, and used it to ugly people to just have something nice to say about them.. In both cases its true.

[Tiptoetamm]

Looks are subjective. Someone who may be attractive to you may not be for me and that's totally fine. Everyone out there is attractive to someone or many someone's lol.

[Aurora1010]

It's obviously subjective. I find many of celebrities overrated.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

It is completely subjective to each person. A really beautiful woman according to the world can be unattractive to a man. And vice versa can happen too.

Exact thing happened with me. There is a girl in our college. She gained like 3000 instagram followers on instagram in like 3 days.
But when I saw her in person, I did not notice anything special about her.
Maybe nothing special about her is itself special. I don't know...

[HighlyVolatile]

Subjective, although some people are going to be more popular than others. Far more people are going to like Brad Pitt than Dan Radcliffe, for example. Far more people are going to prefer pizza to caviar. Far more people are going to prefer Michael Jackson to Mozart.

[HighlyVolatile]

Or films might be a nice analogy. You can usually tell what films are going to be rated higher than others with audiences even though film taste is subjective. For example, I don't like Titanic very much but I can see why it's often ranked one of the greatest films by all time by the masses. Meanwhile, I love Frankenhooker but I can also see why it has a 6.2/10 IMDB rating. It's not the kind of film that many people will like let alone even watch.

[HighlyVolatile]

Music might be another one. Music taste is extremely subjective. However, it is not without criteria that generally make songs more or less popular with audiences. There's still music theory and concepts like harmony, rhythm, scales, chords, timbre, etc. A song that deviates too much from such concepts will start to sound like just noise rather than music to almost everyone's ears.

[HighlyVolatile]

With beauty, I watched a documentary long ago studying beauty standards across cultures trying to find common denominators throughout the world. The documentary ended on the note that the only thing they all had in common is health. Cultures tend to uniformly associate tie their ideas of a beautiful body to one that looks healthy to them (it doesn't necessarily have to be healthy, but it has to look healthy based on their ideas of what a healthy body looks like).

[Rambling010]

Everyone knows that it's not entirely subjective. We all have a similar way that we judge looks but not exactly the same. One person could think that somebody was ugly and another person could find them attractive. Because of the way they saw their character. I've known people before that could have been considered Knockouts but their personality was so unattractive that nobody like them. I'd rather have a better personality than good looks and no personality or a bad personality

[MCheetah]

It's subjective, but more so on guys than on girls. Most women just want a tall, ripped, handsome man.

[CuteShyNerdy]

Subjective. Completely. Every person has their different attractions. BBW, itty bitty titty committee, xdressing whatever. Everyone has their likes and differences.

[lrina]

i think it's mainly matter of opinion.

[wankiam]

in many cases it is subjective in my view.

[Recurrence]

Subjective