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Absolutely all cultures? What about tribal societies and their body modifications
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I don't really find those women posted all that attractive. I find them rather homely and plain, looks wise. They look quite average. I bet they have great talents though!
I agree, they lack the features like high cheekbones and defined faces like this. On that note, you guys going for less pretty girls doesn't mean they have better personalities so you might as well go for pretty women.
Absolutely all cultures? What about tribal societies and their body modifications
These cultures do not prefer hourglass-shaped women if food is plentiful?
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Her face has no personality however. By this I mean she could be a waxwork or a mannequin.
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Absolutely all cultures? What about tribal societies and their body modifications
These cultures do not prefer hourglass-shaped women if food is plentiful?
Have you seen pictures of Amazonian tribeswomen with enlarged lobes and lips or African tribeswomen with elongated necks? Also I dont believe that your aesthetic tastes change based on how much youve eaten XD
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Absolutely all cultures? What about tribal societies and their body modifications
These cultures do not prefer hourglass-shaped women if food is plentiful?
Have you seen pictures of Amazonian tribeswomen with enlarged lobes and lips or African tribeswomen with elongated necks? Also I dont believe that your aesthetic tastes change based on how much youve eaten XD
Asian and European men rate the same European women as the most attractive. Studies have also shown that both white and black men tend to prefer mixed-race women over women from their own race.
Ancient Greek statue of Aphrodite (Greek states with a good infrastructure typically had plenty of food):
[img][800:1920]http://33.media.tumblr.com/cff906f34d27c0756921bf848373e170/tumblr_mf3tcrlsDc1rui49ao1_1280.jpg[/img]
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Kurgan is right, beauty standards didn't change in history as much as what some people claim, this started with the misinterpretation of Venus of Willendorf and other Venus figurines- which were most probably symbols of Fertility rather than beauty (and there's no much evidence for either since they are very ancient).
However, most love/lust goddesses statues depicted slender-hourglass women.
Like Ishtar of Babylon.
http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6lk9 ... o1_400.jpg
Pre-babylon Ishtar
Isis of Egypt.
Ashtart of Canaan:
there are more...
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I think that that is a too neat. Beauty standards do seem to change over time sometimes significantly. Its certainly true but only partly
It changed in men after birth control pills and mass media became more widespread (compare Georg Hackenschmidt to Justin Bieber, for instance), but beauty standards in women have changed very little apart from haircuts. Absolutely all cultures, at all times given that food was plentiful, valued hourglass figures with large eyes, small noses, small jaws, and typical feminine features.
All this says is that our perceptions of beauty are affected by cultural norms which are affected by the environment. I don't think that means one set of norms is more or less legitimate than another. It's not like having "plentiful" food is a default state of nature that lets us get at an objective viewpoint on what's attractive It just goes to show that beauty is subjective and differs widely according to many factors.
You can't tell me a lady with a 20 inch waist and a thigh gap is more likely to be fertile than one with saggy breasts and belly and stretch marks on her hips because she's already borne a healthy child surely Yet which one do men in the Western world fantasize about? The one they've been bombarded with since they were born!
I am not sexually attracted to women, but I find the women whose pictures were posted very beautiful and more interesting than what might be "conventional" beauties. I also think Maggie Gylenhaal is very attractive, and I second the earlier mention of Billie Holiday
[img][800:1655]http://media.celebrity-pictures.ca/Celebrities/Maggie-Gyllenhaal/Maggie-Gyllenhaal-1241106.jpg[/img]
Frida Kahlo is also a good example
[img][800:1282]http://thelacquerie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1939_photo_nickolas_muray.jpg[/img]
Sagging breasts are a sign of aging and a large belly is a sign of either too much fat or too much male hormones, both of which will stall fertility. Notice how Marilyn Monroe and Zooey Deschanel have very similar meassurements.
[http://thelacquerie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1939_photo_nickolas_muray.jpg
I have yet to see a woman who looks better with a mustache and a monobrow.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal isn't unconventionally , she's conventionally beautiful.
I think that the difference between conventionally attractive and unconventionally attractive is the opinions of the majority, if the majority of people, especially people of the opposite sex, think that this X person is attractive then he/she's conventionally attractive , while unconventionally attractive is only seen attractive by few individuals or a minority of people.
That's why celebs like Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie are considered conventionally beautiful, because the majority of the opposite sex think so.
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