- Who should get the largest share of criticism society or individuals?
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This isn’t even new. Women and girls have been starving themselves for a lot longer than guys have been hitting themselves with hammers.
Yes, beauty standard is historically pretty high in the case of women. The whole women beauty industry make profit off of manufacturing insecurities about their appearance. Worse happen when Aesthetics becomes priority over Health. News related to ozempic (weight loss drug) death has become a common occurrence in the recent years.
I’ve just asked my aunt, who lives next door, she isn’t exactly a picture with her crooked teeth, hump and hairy legs. Auntie, I said, here’s this junior with this intriguing question on lemmy, can you answer it oh wise one? As a reply, she threw her half empty beer bottle at my head.
Theory: a lot of uglieness is just lack of personal care and grooming, which is indicitive of mental unwellness, which can be a predictor for unhinged or antisocial behavior.
“The difference between and ugly man and a handsome man is a haircut.”
The problem with lookism is that it takes someone’s appearance as face value and judges based on it which is just prejudice. There’s more to a person than its appearance. Why would someone be mocked for its hair-loss, baldness or facial features?
Heuristics. You can’t get to know every single person you see, so you make some judgement calls based on the information you have access to, to determine if it’s someone you feel is safe and worth interacting with
False premise. There are plenty of examples of vice versa. It’s class prejudice. A super hot prostitute is treated much worse than an ugly oligarch. This is because of trickle down mechanics, the oligarchs treat everyone and the world like shit, establishing a heirarchy based on who you get to treat like shit to establish you place in it.
Poor treatment of attractive sex worker compared to unattractive oligarch is not based on appearance. Your example doesn’t help solve the problem of lookism.
