[LMB] Beauty, now OT: and veered away from: SciFi vs Fantasy

[Mark Allums]

Elizabeth Holden wrote:
  > We obviously have different standards of
> beauty. Or different ways of measuring it. 

Quite possible.  There are different ways to be beautiful, and a
beautiful personality can light up an ordinary face.


Or different
> ways of perceiving it. I'd say your definition is too 
> narrow - based on Hollywood types.

Not my standard, Raye used Hollywood as an example first.


   And
> *they* are a matter of subjective judgement anyway, 
> based more on glamour than on looks.

Again, beauty on the inside versus beauty on the outside.
I'm not disagreeing with you.  We may be talking about
two different things.

I still say that physical beauty follows a statistical bell curve.
It's not entirely subjective.  Things that we perceive as
beautiful* have characteristics that are found in a population
just like any other characteristic.  Of course, there are also
individual tastes. Some people especially like redheads, for example.
Some think blondes and prettier.

--Mark Allums

*Such as smooth skin.  Or big eyes.