Beauty - (theory)
i will start this thread off with a reflection on beauty. i have a theory on what humans find beautiful, but i shall get to it in a second.
these days, the ideally beautiful woman is very thin.
have you ever looked at the Mona Lisa? in the time that was painted, she was the idea of a perfect beauty. but if youve ever really looked at her, you would see that, by today's standards, she's kind of chubby to be a ravishing beauty.
see that lady? thats Ruth Ke'elikolani. she was once considered by the Hawai'ian natives to be the ultimate embodiment of beauty and grace. by today's standards, shes just plain fat.
so, now, skinny women are considered beautiful, and in the past, plumper women were. the pattern is that now, people tend towards fatness (what with all the fast food and unhealthy lifestyles), while in those times, people were generally slimmer (you know, when half the population was starving to death). which leads to my theory, that the opposite of what is common among people is what they considered beautiful.
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