Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is well known that culture influences perceptions of beauty. As Chris Rock said, For black men small butts are never in style. In Northeast Asia the wide-eyed look is very much in style.
Is my suggesting that not everyone worships the blonde stick-figure-with boobs look really so offensive? Or revolutionary? In certain African cultures body fat on a woman is considered an attractive sign of affluence. I could on and on and on...
Quoting Chris Rock again?
My (black) husband seems ok with my (small) butt. Then again, I look a bit like Elin +20 yrs. Oh well.
Good for you. Guess what?
My white husband loves my small breasts and Angela Davis afro. Not anthropology class -- plastic surgery to remove the epicanthal fold is quite common among the well-to-do in Northeast Asia, as anyone who has lived there and worked there knows. There are, of course, as many aesthetic preferences as there are individuals but these coexist alongside and yes, are often influenced by, larger cultural beauty norms. It is disingenous to pretend that these larger beauty norms are irrelevant or nonexistent. And for the record, there are plenty of thin blonde women whom I consider truly beautiful (Christie Brinkley, Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum). Elin Nordegren just happens to not be one of them because to me, she looks average, aside from her hair.