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"however, we've all got different preferences when it comes to physical attractiveness" "this policy is a bunch of discriminatory, attractiveness-norm-reinforc
by fgf 16y ago
"however, we've all got different preferences when it comes to physical attractiveness"
"this policy is a bunch of discriminatory, attractiveness-norm-reinforcing"
"why are they falling prey to the same arbitrary attractiveness standards as your local meat market-y douchebar?"
This is what reading too much sociology will do to you. I just spent a year with it as a major, it won't happen again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_attraction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_attraction
- hugh3 16y agoIndeed, it does appear to make you believe things which everybody should know from experience are false. Attractiveness standards are not "arbitrary", however much you might want to believe it. We have slightly different preferences when it comes to physical attractiveness, but the differences are fairly minor. And attractiveness norms don't need any "reinforcing", they seem to be pretty damn-near hardwired in our genomes. Reading this, I expected the author to be a trollish blob, but clicking on her name reveals she's nothing awful: http://bitchmagazine.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/profile-photo/profiles/images/IMG_0039.JPG http://bitchmagazine.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/prof... I suppose that makes sense: if she were completely hideous she'd know about it, but if she's so-so in appearance then she's more likely to be offended by her non-inclusion in the top half.