A while back, I made a post comparing people who solicit for designer donor eggs to Nazis. As always, art and humor can never find ways to be as awful as real life. Lookie what we have here from Sunday.
I'm pleased to know that people want to have sex with landscapes, especially the Italian countryside. Similarly, I'll hereto after assume the reason people find buildings built according to the golden ratio to be pleasing has something to do with proper breasts being rectilinear.
I'll never picture bowls of fruit the same way again, that is for sure...
Here's a rhetorical question for you before I get up to increasing someone's stakeholder value... How many ads have blondes in them, as compared to the general population?
...what? I'm assuming there was some misread in there, because those first two paragraphs are just weird. Is this supposed to be some non-sequitur expansion of the contextual aesthetics of human beauty to aesthetics in general?
I would expect there are more (female) blonds in ads than in the general population, indicating that blond women have a wide aesthetic appeal. Whether this is the remnants of a time when it was publicly accepted that blond/blue was pure and good, some trick of the colors where light hair and eyes makes models look more feminine (you'll note few male models have blond hair), or a self-fulfilling prophecy where new models are hired because they look like "models", I would love to see more darker haired models but don't personally feel a need for active manipulation of societal aesthetics.
I have not dismissed the possibility that the choice is solely one of aesthetics, I just do not find it nearly as likely as a mother who cannot conceive herself wanting her baby to look like it is hers. Also, there's probably a 0.1% percent chance that she's a secret Nazi, but that's the only choice in here which is morally wrong.
definitions of aesthetics as provided by google's "define:" (out-of-context trimmed; google it yourself if you want.)
The philosophy or study of the nature of beauty and art.
The sum total of the visual response to the beauty of an object. Elements of aesthetics may include: color, shape or particular features of the object.
Relating to the artistic or the"beautiful"; traditionally a branch of philosophy, but now a compound of the philosophy, psychology, and sociology of art.
The pleasurable sensations, mental and physical, which humans may experience as a result of certain environmental resources.
Of or pertaining to the perception of things, places, or objects which evoke appreciation by the individual, without regard to market or monetary value, or the utility of said things, places, or objects.
"Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty, especially in the arts; the theory of art or artistic taste."
Properties perceived by touch and sight, such as the hand, color, luster and texture of carpet.
A branch of philosophy that focuses on the nature of beauty, the value of art, and the human responses to those topics.
the sense of what people consider beautiful or culturally appropriate, varying from folk group to folk group and individual to individual.
The branch of philosophy that deals with beauty and art. Central questions in aesthetics include: What is art? What kinds of objects possess aesthetic value? Is aesthetic experience rational or emotional? What is the relationship between an artist, their artwork and the critics?
Perhaps blonds have a wider aesthetic appeal because they appear in more ads?
You really need to stop using the word "aesthetics."
Why, because it's wider than matters of the human physical form, which is the entire context of this discussion? Do you need me to add "bodily aesthetics" to know what I'm talking about?
Oh, I know what you're talking about... the problem is, I don't know that you know what you're talking about. I'm reasonably convinced, at this point, that you don't.
If you can coherently argue that "bodily aesthetics" are distinct from "fruit aesthetics," go get yourself a PhD. in Philosophy. It isn't something you get to just "assume."
Yes, because if you actually knew what 3000 years of aesthetics had to say about beauty, of the human form and of fruit trees, you'd know why you were wrong.
Your justification for the Himler family's choice of egg donors is predicated on a misunderstanding of the later.
Our fine host already won the argument by -starting- the -previous- post by Godwining himself. You may also want to reflect on the profound nature of the subject of this post, Mister "Why So Serious?".
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Date: 2008-09-16 05:06 pm (UTC)I'll never picture bowls of fruit the same way again, that is for sure...
Here's a rhetorical question for you before I get up to increasing someone's stakeholder value... How many ads have blondes in them, as compared to the general population?
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Date: 2008-09-16 05:26 pm (UTC)I would expect there are more (female) blonds in ads than in the general population, indicating that blond women have a wide aesthetic appeal. Whether this is the remnants of a time when it was publicly accepted that blond/blue was pure and good, some trick of the colors where light hair and eyes makes models look more feminine (you'll note few male models have blond hair), or a self-fulfilling prophecy where new models are hired because they look like "models", I would love to see more darker haired models but don't personally feel a need for active manipulation of societal aesthetics.
I have not dismissed the possibility that the choice is solely one of aesthetics, I just do not find it nearly as likely as a mother who cannot conceive herself wanting her baby to look like it is hers. Also, there's probably a 0.1% percent chance that she's a secret Nazi, but that's the only choice in here which is morally wrong.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
Date: 2008-09-16 05:33 pm (UTC)The philosophy or study of the nature of beauty and art.
The sum total of the visual response to the beauty of an object. Elements of aesthetics may include: color, shape or particular features of the object.
Relating to the artistic or the"beautiful"; traditionally a branch of philosophy, but now a compound of the philosophy, psychology, and sociology of art.
The pleasurable sensations, mental and physical, which humans may experience as a result of certain environmental resources.
Of or pertaining to the perception of things, places, or objects which evoke appreciation by the individual, without regard to market or monetary value, or the utility of said things, places, or objects.
"Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty, especially in the arts; the theory of art or artistic taste."
Properties perceived by touch and sight, such as the hand, color, luster and texture of carpet.
A branch of philosophy that focuses on the nature of beauty, the value of art, and the human responses to those topics.
the sense of what people consider beautiful or culturally appropriate, varying from folk group to folk group and individual to individual.
The branch of philosophy that deals with beauty and art. Central questions in aesthetics include: What is art? What kinds of objects possess aesthetic value? Is aesthetic experience rational or emotional? What is the relationship between an artist, their artwork and the critics?
Perhaps blonds have a wider aesthetic appeal because they appear in more ads?
You really need to stop using the word "aesthetics."
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Date: 2008-09-16 05:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-16 05:48 pm (UTC)If you can coherently argue that "bodily aesthetics" are distinct from "fruit aesthetics," go get yourself a PhD. in Philosophy. It isn't something you get to just "assume."
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Date: 2008-09-16 06:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-16 06:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-16 06:32 pm (UTC)I am familiar with all internet traditions!
Date: 2008-09-16 06:37 pm (UTC)Our fine host already won the argument by -starting- the -previous- post by Godwining himself. You may also want to reflect on the profound nature of the subject of this post, Mister "Why So Serious?".