From: Bill MacKinnon (bmackinn@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun May 09 2004 - 16:31:01 MDT
Well said. Neotonic. I like that word.
I live in a town here (Miami) that is full of beauties.
That doesn't automatically translate to happiness often though. I
think this is the prozac capital of the world.
Many screwed up girls here, it seems to me. To much focus on
appearance, as with anything, will mess you up.
I do like looking at them though.
By the way, Blunderov, are you in S. Africa? Saw your e-mail address.
I was there a couple of years ago and loved it.
Game parks, Sun City, George, and Cape Town. A wonderful place. Can't
wait to go back.
Bill
Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not wisdom,
Wisdom is not truth,
Truth is not beauty,
Beauty is not love,
Love is not music
and Music is THE BEST
- F. Zappa
On May 9, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Blunderov wrote:
> [Blunderov] I suppose she is beautiful. She has gone to a lot of
> trouble to
> simulate as many of the cultural characteristics of beauty as she can.
>
> I once read of some research that was done into male perceptions of
> beauty.
> They came up with a new word to describe their findings - neotonic.
> The word
> means roughly 'like a baby'. It was their finding that woman with
> faces that
> were devoid of definitely formed characteristics (hence 'like a baby')
> were
> likely to be perceived more beautiful than those whose features were
> not so.
> (I don't know if they extended the scope of their enquiries below the
> face
> and it seems that they may have missed a trick here.)
>
> I wonder whether beauty doesn't respond quite strongly to natural
> selection
> and whether it doesn't account for some of the variations in
> physiognomy
> that are seen around the planet. (I suppose I should be wary of the
> assumption that those who are more attractive have a better chance of
> breeding until I have some actual data though - one local locker room
> witticism holds that all cats are black in the dark.)
>
> Perceptions of beauty have certainly varied widely down the ages. The
> ample
> figures of Neolithic fertility goddess statues are thought by some to
> reflect the importance of fecundity in those societies. It might be
> worth
> wondering whether there is some connection here to the fact that the
> anorexic figure of Twiggy became popular during the height of the
> sexual
> revolution at about the time when the pill was invented.
> <q>
> Beauty is a bikini wax 'n waitin' for yer nails to dry
> Beauty is colored pencil, scribbled all around yer eye
> Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die
>
> Frank Zappa, Beauty Knows No Pain
> </q>
>
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