From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun May 09 2004 - 14:08:54 MDT
...it's easy for men to seem profound and say things like, "oh, that's
disgusting..." or "she was better looking before she started!"...or "i would
never go on a date with chick that looked like that". but we are trained to
know that statements like that will win us points in the minds of others.
the fact is that she does look considerably better now than she did before.
what is fairly unattractive is her obsession and what i imagine to be a
pathological personality. but even that statement is unfair for me to
say...some people are born with good looks, and those that arent can pretend
it doesnt matter all they want, but the fact is it does. we are genetically
wired this way...we WANT to be found 'attractive' or 'alluring' by our
peers. we want to have people think, "oooh, what a sexpot that is!" and
when we dont? we learn to deal with it and find the best possible
alternative.
...so; is this chick more attractive now? yes. but in lieu of her
obsession, i imagine she comes with lots of seriously annoying psychological
accompanyments. so i believe i could find a much better all around package
elsewhere. who knows, i could be wrong...maybe because of her new
self-confidence-inducing appearance, she's lost her psycho aspects. but
conventional wisdom tells me as a male that if i were to encounter her at a
cocktail party and she was looking her best, i might be up for quickly
bending her over a sofa, lifting the dress up and having a quick go at her.
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
----Original Message Follows----
From: "rhinoceros" <rhinoceros@freemail.gr>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re:virus: Transhuman (Body work)
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 11:25:03 -0600
[hkhenson]
http://www.cindyjackson.com/my_surgery.php
[rhinoceros]
I am a bit sceptical, and not sure at all whether I would chose the "before"
or the "after" (if I had to).
<quote>
When Ohio native Cindy Jackson decided to transform her face, she followed
what she calls 'some basic anthropological laws of human attraction.' None
of this surprises researchers studying physical attraction…Perceptions of
beauty are universal and automatic, they say, in direct response to specific
facial characteristics.
Lynn Smith, The Los Angeles Times
<end quote>
[rhinoceros]
Is it so? I have seen those facial measurements etc published all around,
and I can instantly and automatically recognize Barbie and what she
represents, but I doubt I would be inclined to hit on her.
And I don't believe I am a statistical anomaly. What I think is that this
"recognition of beauty" is just a cultural and intercultural conformity.
After all, the magazines on the newsstands are more or less global these
days.
<quote>
With laser-beam precision, she has repositioned tissue, cartilage and bone
to transform herself into one of the most desirable women of the late 20th
century.
Corinna Honan, The Daily Telegraph
<end quote>
[rhinoceros]
Putting aside this small exaggeration, I think desirability has many
different facets. If you walk on the streets and listen to that verbal
fraction of our fellow-citizens, you will hear different kinds of
compliments for different types of women, with or without "love-handles" and
"saddlebags".
I suspect that when a boy looks at a magazine cover and sees the woman of
his dreams he actually sees more than "universal beauty". At the least, he
sees someone who will be readily recognized as beautiful by his peers. At
most, he sees glitter and a "different kind of life".
<quote>
Farm-girl turned cover-girl.
Wendy Leigh, The Sunday Mirror
<end quote>
[rhinoceros]
A legit goal, but it shouldn't be taken as something else.
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