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April 20, 2006
Beauty
This blooger hates the idea that “babies prefer pretty people” and “ugly children get neglected”.
But the idea of beauty is different in every culture. So when they parade a long stream of “pretty” and “ugly” people past a group of babies and guage their reaction, who are the babies? Who are the people? As I grow older, and plastic surgery gets progressively more affordable, I spend much of my time in the movie theatre looking through my fingers at the scary, scary actors on the screen, with gigantic breasts and cartoon-parody swollen lips and skin stretched so thinly so that light reflects off of it like it’s molded plastic (which of course, it often is). Were these the people the babies reacted favorably to? Here’s my guess: the babies reacted favorably because the other people in the room reacted favorably. I mean, jesus, when I went wandering around Toronto with my friend Mia, it was like an episode of National Geographic. Men and women fell all over themselves getting close to her, talking to her, wanting her attention. Of course a baby would pick up on that kind of positive atmosphere. To imply that beauty is a trait that a baby knows from birth is patently absurd.
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Posted on April 20, 2006 10:46 AM by Plasti36.
Filed in Skin Care News under plastic surgery.
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Do not forget :
One research use an acceptable system of data gathering and analysis/500 do not. Not mentioning the "money issue".
Posted by: FULVIO at September 18, 2007 01:18 AM
thnxxxx
Posted by: hussam at April 3, 2007 07:53 AM
I've heard this argument multiple times and completely agree with you. Every year the papers will also publish the 'latest' study relecting the ideal pysical ratio of waist to hips for men and women, as well as facial features.
If what human beings were drawn to in a partner was so cookie-cutter obvious then why do we end up with partners that rarely ever fit into this prototype
Posted by: Jane at March 18, 2007 09:18 PM