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Pretty much what it says on the tin.
A recent collegiate beauty pageant in China imposed a variety of standards for participation. These include a minimum distance of 20 cm between the participants' nipples as well as arbitrary proportions for various measurements. The idea, I guess, is that beauty is something that can be measured, at least to a degree.
What do you think of the concept? Can beauty, or a minimum standard of beauty, be established through measurement of a person's physical attributes?
In regard to the cases of the Chinese pageant, this sure sounds like a literal meat market. 4-H and kennel clubs judge animals exactly the same way. Now, that may seem dehumanizing, but is it any worse than beauty pageants in west which are pretty dehumanizing themselves?
Also, before you reject the idea that beauty can be measured, consider that women are often judged on base physical attributes and that many of these attributes have established parameters. That is to say that women with larger breasts are often considered more attractive than women with smaller breasts (just to pick one measurement). Is the Chinese pageant just quantifying levels of attractiveness that may already be recognized in society?
Don't think you'll weasel out by simply saying that all beauty is relative, either individually or culturally. If you take that stance then I think you should still be asked to explain whether or not you can quantify beauty within individual or cultural standards and tell us why or why not you think that.
Linkie-poo.
By the way, as a means of reference the standard of measurement for beauty is the millihelen, which is a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship.
A recent collegiate beauty pageant in China imposed a variety of standards for participation. These include a minimum distance of 20 cm between the participants' nipples as well as arbitrary proportions for various measurements. The idea, I guess, is that beauty is something that can be measured, at least to a degree.
What do you think of the concept? Can beauty, or a minimum standard of beauty, be established through measurement of a person's physical attributes?
In regard to the cases of the Chinese pageant, this sure sounds like a literal meat market. 4-H and kennel clubs judge animals exactly the same way. Now, that may seem dehumanizing, but is it any worse than beauty pageants in west which are pretty dehumanizing themselves?
Also, before you reject the idea that beauty can be measured, consider that women are often judged on base physical attributes and that many of these attributes have established parameters. That is to say that women with larger breasts are often considered more attractive than women with smaller breasts (just to pick one measurement). Is the Chinese pageant just quantifying levels of attractiveness that may already be recognized in society?
Don't think you'll weasel out by simply saying that all beauty is relative, either individually or culturally. If you take that stance then I think you should still be asked to explain whether or not you can quantify beauty within individual or cultural standards and tell us why or why not you think that.
Linkie-poo.
By the way, as a means of reference the standard of measurement for beauty is the millihelen, which is a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship.
