- Who should get the largest share of criticism society or individuals?
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This isn’t even new. Women and girls have been starving themselves for a lot longer than guys have been hitting themselves with hammers.
I’ve just asked my aunt, who lives next door, she isn’t exactly a picture with her crooked teeth, hump and hairy legs. Auntie, I said, here’s this junior with this intriguing question on lemmy, can you answer it oh wise one? As a reply, she threw her half empty beer bottle at my head.
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Theory: a lot of uglieness is just lack of personal care and grooming, which is indicitive of mental unwellness, which can be a predictor for unhinged or antisocial behavior.
“The difference between and ugly man and a handsome man is a haircut.”
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The problem with lookism is that it takes someone’s appearance as face value and judges based on it which is just prejudice. There’s more to a person than its appearance. Why would someone be mocked for its hair-loss, baldness or facial features?
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Heuristics. You can’t get to know every single person you see, so you make some judgement calls based on the information you have access to, to determine if it’s someone you feel is safe and worth interacting with
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Heuristics is a good device but it doesn’t work with lookism. For example - Baldness isn’t a conclusive evidence for a person to be considered unsafe or ill natured. We can’t determine everyone’s nature by just their looks. “Looks can be deceiving” is a good phrase.
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The wealthy surround themselves with beautiful people, get blood transfusions from young people, get cosmetic surgery. In our stories, good characters are usually portrayed as beautiful or handsome and often young. Successful characters, whether good or evil, are often beautiful or handsome. Regular-looking folks more often appear as side characters or comedic characters instead.
this view is encouraged by the fashion, skincare and cosmetics industries (not that there’s anything wrong with fashion, skincare, or cosmetics per se).
So we are all being conditioned to worship or favor beauty and youth.
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I agree on the conditioning aspect but is there not some biological imperative as well? Generally attractive traits deemed desirable from an evolutionary perspective
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What we view as attractive is socially constructed and varies over time and place. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738081X23000251
Youth and health are probably a proxy for fertility, so that would be related to physical attraction, but why should that affect how we treat people? That’s not a reason to favor the young or to disfavor the old. Not only that, but community care of children meant everyone had a role in the greater sense of “fertility”.
