Going-to-sleep failure.

[wetdryvac]

Mmm, pissed off by society again - this time on the subject of human beauty. For starters, the whole process of recognizing another human as beautiful has been so commercialized that the path of new markets and vogues driving perception is itself driven by idealization of the new

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[hilleviw]

beautiful people who aren't pretty as the art project?

it's my experience that when someone is doing something which he loves, she's beautiful. also that if I love someone, she's beautiful no matter where she is or what she's doing.

and I understand and mostly agree with about all you've said here, but I'll remind you that sometimes we make judgments about people based on expediency and it's the correct thing to do. Example: sitting in the car with the doors locked in the parking lot of a Greyhound station last spring. I didn't get out of the car and interview anyone...just made a call based on visible weaponry.

[wetdryvac]

*nods

[m_danson]

It sounds like you would enjoy my figure drawing class then. So far all the models have been very present and very comfortable with themselves.

As for personal beauty. The more I care for someone, the more beautiful they become in my eyes.

[wetdryvac]

*nods*

About care and beauty... I hear that a lot, but I tend not to be swayed towards beauty by caring. Dunno why - the same standards I use to define beauty tend to apply a great deal to people I care for - honest, open expression - but beauty isn't a given.

Admittedly, over time, people I care for tend to display what I consider to be standards of beauty - but that's a matter of comfort level and so forth. Not usually a matter of my perception changing.

*is painfully neutral in perception*

[briar_witch]

You've touched upon one of the elements of our current media which annoys me, that being the idea that I must be told and shown by someone else what I personally find beautiful. This is bullshit and pisses me off, and is one of the reasons for why I have begun viewing the media and all it's forms with a more jaundiced eye

[wetdryvac]

Feel free to link - I'm really surprised that I managed to turn out anything given the state of tired in which it was written.

[feonixrift]

Beauty to me is form fitting function, function molding to form, both aligning under ethics to create efficient effect.

When someone tries to stand on a bus in three inch heels, that is not beauty.

[wetdryvac]

*thinks about it*

I suppose if it were pulled off successfully, that might be beauty - but yeah, I think that falls under the category of OMGWTFBBQ, ala two lumps and the roombah.

[fire_fox01]

I stumbled upon your journal while reading a friends. I just wanted to tell you this entry is one of the best things I have ever read. Thank you for making me feel beautiful today.

Also I linked this entry in my last entry. I hope that is okay!

[wetdryvac]

Linking is cool, no worries. Glad you got some use from it!