beauty

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-554870/A-role-model-ordinary-women-No-Miss-England-finalist-fat-lazy-poster-girl-ill-health.html She isn't 'curvy' she is just plain fat, you can see her fat folds. Who is she trying to kid?

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/11/02/HP/A/40280/Senate+Candidates+Election+Night+Speeches.aspx The pretty lady in red with too much bad plastic surgery.

Have a look at this programme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65YpzZrwKI4&feature=PlayList&p=71A4A928111A6006&index=0&playnext=1 What do you think?

Simple question: Why are things beautiful? I wonder, are there creatures out there on some other planet who wake up, go outside, and find the universe unbearably ugly? Now, let me point out that I'm posting this in the science forum rather than the philosophy forum. I'm not posing a...

I've noticed that an addition that some evolution theorists make to the notion of of survival of the fittest is the survival of the most attractive. A common example used is the peacock. The point raised is that the bigger and more illustrious the peacock's tail is, the more likely he is to...

From the UK Daily Mail: Hubble telescope's top ten greatest space photographs The universe is enough. It does not need sky pixies.

This was in response to comments apparently made by Bubblefish in another thread. Specifically, he made the claim that the statement, "Angelina Jolie is a beautiful woman," is an objective statement. He has further claimed that beauty is at the same time BOTH objective and subjective. Since I...

Ever since I was a kid, I've been fascinated at nature's persistent beauty, even at its most destructive. It has its horrors and its ugliness, yes -- disease, deformity, evisceration -- but even hurricanes, tornadoes, and volcanoes are beautiful. I used to wonder if there could be, somewhere...

So what is beauty? And I don't mean, "what do you think is beautiful?" or "what is the definition of beauty?"