STS: using standards of beauty to manipulate others

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Just to play devils advocate for a second here- I've read that beauty is not entirely subjective. Asymmetry in the face for example could mean disease or bad genes from an evolutionary point of view. Thusly we have evolved a preference for symmetry in our mates, and is one of the things we see in someone as being 'beautiful'.

there is something in proportions that the human mind finds irresistable. and there is nothing wrong in that. Every guy (speaking from a guy's perspective) likes a pretty face.

I think what STS forces try to do is emphasise this physical aspect of an individual to the exclusion of all else. It becomes a matter of 'what you look like' rather than what your thoughts, your abilities, or talents.

they use this 'beauty aspect' as the sole measure of self esteem.

they want you to only see the surface aspects of a person (what they look like) to encourage the illusion of separation, rather than looking deeper, and seeing that on a soul level, we are all one.

it's an attempt to enforce a philosophical point that they have. (the idea of separation and the 'chosen ones')

that's my reading of what Ra said anyway.