People reading the CNN website and taking the polls tend to mostly answer with the same kinds of responses I do, and I am a LIBERAL. They have a story today about "What is Beauty and Who Has It?"
So today's poll results surprise me. It has (so far) 68,690 YES responses and 18,279 NO responses (including my own) to the question:
Does physical beauty matter to you?
Seriously? Almost 80 % of the respondents say YES??? I am confused. Are liberals this shallow?
I don't always answer with the herd but as I said, I usually do, and I am not even close to being middle-of-the-road, politically. Beauty to me, comes from inside the person. That feels like a liberal response, if I were to select one based upon ideology.
I look like a troll. A big, hairy, cave troll. The troll in the LOTR games would want to bear my children, I am such a twin soul mate. So maybe, the fact that I am not good looking probably colors my judgment, and keeps me from having a need for others to be good looking.
Do I wish I was good looking, is the poll asking about my own looks? Hmmm. Maybe then, I might lean a little more to answering 'yes', but I'm pretty resigned to being fuck-ugly on the outside.
This bothered me so much I mentioned it to a friend, who had a simple response. "There are many true liberals who wouldn't bother to answer this shallow question. So the answers are mostly conservative responses this time".
Yeah, no. I think as a culture, we have an obsession with beauty.
It asks if beauty matters, it doesn't ask if it's the most important thing or even a really important thing. Considering it's something we have a strong evolutionary preference for, why shouldn't 80% of people be honest that it has a pull on them to some degree? I'm very liberal and beauty matters to me because I'm human.
ReplyDeleteTo desire to be desired will allways be prevalent in our psych.
ReplyDeleteAnd so,it is what it is,(at least for OUR forsee-able future)-relish in memories of attractive youth,and also continue to relize the importance and ability that your wisdom has to positively impact the lives of others.
ReplyDeleteRelish the memories of my past attractiveness, and decide that I'll be content with my ability to wisely mentor others? If that's what I have to look forward to when I get old, you may as well shoot me now, please please please. Beauty is all. No one notices you if your "fuck-ugly". If your alone, who do you wisely mentor then? What do you think, Alethea? Are you content with being a parent figure? Or if your grayheaded, a grandparent figure? Because I bet you would trade me places if you could. Otherwise you wouldn't have Peter Pan Syndrome.
ReplyDeleteIn response to "Just shoot me",-I'm not a believer in an afterlife.I truely believe this current "conciousness" is all we'll get,so,to me,unless i'm in unbearable physical pain,every second of life is precious.Sure,attractiveness throughout my entire life would be preferable,but unrealistic.-And there's so much more in this life to enjoy and experience.
ReplyDelete(P.S.-You're apparently a hottie,SURE,i'd trade places with you if i could!)