STS: using standards of beauty to manipulate others

[Diana]

Very interesting posts here!

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'. Also the bias towards wide hips and large bosom, I'm guessing are related to child bearing /rearing abilities. (oddly a large chunk of western culture is interested in girls with boy like figures, E.g. runway models. Not sure why that is, or what it means for our future(!!))

Similarly women have a bias towards alpha males because they are considered as most likely able to provide protection and provide food while one is with child. All of this is subconscious of course.

Certainly this is true regarding the biological preferences for certain features and behaviors. These were appropriate in times when we were living like 2D creatures, operating from instinct for survival.

But we are 3D trying to reach 4D. Beauty is a desirable concept. But not when it is superficial, or based on obsolete limbic promptings. A sense of beauty is something that can be derived from balance of mind, body, spirit. It could be the higher octave of the description above of symmetry in the face and body.

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Plenum--yikes! I wouldn't call all those gages respecting the body, but perhaps this individual's "skin" agreed to it .