@centur @starsandrobots not that their beauty makes any difference in this.
@centur your statement in itself is not inherently bad (and "how could anyone not want to be beautiful?"), but triggers that value structure
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@centur I'd say that generally the counterargument on that is, that the value structure has broader undesirable deleterious consequences -
@centur e.g. are my words more worthwhile because I did a good job of putting on makeup today? should they be? should someone else's? -
@centur and: what good ideas get left out when value = beauty? whose? (+ this is a force that essentially only women are required to battle) -
@centur people've said I think about this stuff too much, from reading things like http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/01/11/women_and_beauty_why_does_society_value_looks_over_intelligence.html … and http://enwp.org/wiki/Feminine_beauty_ideal … -
@centur at the end of the day, I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed my talk. -
@starsandrobots I'm sorry if my comment caused any negative feelings (and given "the smell of the torches" before - it did).
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@centur which tbh is more or less the world I grew up in, just like basically everyone else.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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