In this world where almost everybody is seeking perfection : a perfect body, a perfect nose, a perfect face, a perfect life… we are saved by the law of subjectivity. Yes, even today, some people still have the courage to think that there is no one single true beauty definition and that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Well that was BEFORE some very smart scientific dudes decided to create a mathematical standard of beauty to help us calculate how close – or far – we are from having the absolute perfect nose. Welcome in the 21st century.
Link to the study here
Why is this happening? Who’s setting these friggin standards? (Plastic surgeons) Oh, then never mind. It makes sense now “Let’s line our pockets while trashing everyone’s self-esteem at the same time.”
Reblogged this on Coily Head of Hair.
i LOVE my nose the way it is.
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And if someone doesn’t like it or tell me I need to change, tough noogies!!
It’s really disgusting to me that this study was even conducted! The media continues to find ways to tear down and completely degrade women, depriving us of any kind of self-worth and coming up with new ideas to promote self-loathing!!! Show me one – just ONE! – woman on the face of this planet who is, absolutely PERFECT and I’d say that woman would have to be a robot or something non-human because people ARE NOT PERFECT!! Perfect is subjective. Ideal is subjective. There is no right (or wrong) perspective but to separate an entire group of people from those who have it (whatever “it” is) and those that don’t and to say that those who don’t have it aren’t beautiful, like something is wrong, I have a HUGE problem with that!! What right does a group of scientists – shouldn’t y’all be trying to find cures for diseases and stuff??? – have to conduct a bogus study on what is pleasing to the eye and brand it as the most suiting beauty??? Because everyone’s idea of beauty is different!!!! What one person could find ideally, perfectly, beautiful, another person can have the exact opposite view!! And what is normal? What is average? I’m so happy (and relieved!) that I’m not the average status-quo. I have coily curls, slightly-spaced eyes, a small yet wide nose, full lips, bust, hips and legs and I think I am beautiful! I may not always like what I see in the mirror but I will not allow anyone to change my mind about me!!
LOVE your response to this utter nonsensical rubbish.
And OHMYGOSH is Aishwarya Rai beautiful. Let’s not forget Lupita Nyong’o who was People’s most beautiful woman this year, something which you’d have to be insane to disagree with. Lovely lovely ladies with non-106 degree nose angles.
Mmm yeah. Nose job = get a nose that does not suit your face at all, plus it usually looks fake. Observation based on pretty persian girls who think they have the wrong shape of nose and…
Oh, if I just had the patience to do all the research you did every time I see a ridiculous news like that…. I just say “oh, sure!” and close the page. We could start a new movement against the 160º beauty standards.
Could not have put it better myself! I read the headline and thought: ‘is this another waste of good research money or what?’; the kind of money that could be used for cancer and diabetes research, for example…. or to help end world hunger!!!!! So many other (positive) things that can be done to improve this society, but instead some people just continue to try to minimize, ridicule and bully others because they are not “perfect” (according to them, of course)… and we thought Hitler was dead.
Well, this is perfect. 🙂
Thanks for a much needed reality check. I just wish the appropriate powers that be would read it.