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I dislike "everyone is beautiful" or "you're beautiful just the way you are" - this pressure that if you're unattractive, you should 'pretend' that you're beautiful. This privileges attractive people and expects the unattractive to pretend that they don't have any disadvantage.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Can you imagine if we did this for other areas? "Don't worry, you're white just the way you are", "omg you said you're poor? don't say that about yourself, someone gave you an extra $20 last week!", "He just said you're autistic cause he's an asshole, you're def neurotypical!"

8:06 PM · Oct 3, 2021

Right here, right now

@ambimorph

Oct 3, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

It's different because beauty and attractiveness are not the same.

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Amazing how consistently pro-science intellectuals discount the role of interpretation (“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”). Barthes’ “death of the the author” isn’t read enough

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Interesting - why don't we do this for other areas? I think the more subjective it is, the more we do. E.g. beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but skin colour, autism etc aren't.

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There's a fundamental amount of fondness you can have for someone's appearance even if they're the least attractive person you know, and seeing as who someone is is their body this is akin to believing in everyone's intrinsic worth.

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@Coscorrodrift

Oct 3, 2021

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ngl ppl do this with money "ur not poor just have poor mindset come to my webinar to learn more"

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Yes, also people do say that stuff the poor. Like if you make minimum wage in the US you're in the top 1% globally. While wealth is relative and if you make minimum wage in Chicago you're st the bottom of your food chain and also might freeze in winter.

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Those are some hilarious lines.

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Beauty is far less subjective than poverty. Are med students with no income & negative wealth, poor?Whiteness only beats it because there are specific efforts to delineate white from non-white but obviously, there are gradations of skin color.