Friday, October 14, 2016

Beauty is not subjective and androgyny is not beautiful

Human beauty is not subjective.

Yeah, there's a subjective element. Yeah, some people have weird tastes.

But it's not subjective.

You can take pictures of human beings and get reliable, stable, estimations of their beauty by polling people.

Yeah, there are cultural variants. People like people that look like them. And there's those weird tribes that stick big plates in their lips or stretch out their necks with rings. There are gross things like foot-binding.

But, on the whole, the basic traits--signs of fertility/health/strength--things like symmetry, are universal, and I'd be willing to bet that, for the most part, while people might not always agree across cultures about who's most beautiful between the cultures, they probably would agree about who is most beautiful within a particular culture. In other words--I prefer white women, while a black guy prefers black women--but the black guy and I would probably mostly agree about which is the most attractive among the black women and which is most attractive among the white women.

And, here's the thing, femininity is beautiful in women, and masculinity is beautiful in men.

Yeah, every individual is different and has his or her own kind of beauty. Yeah, everyone has some slight admixture of the traits that are more characteristic of the opposite sex. But, on the whole, femininity is beautiful in women, and masculinity is beautiful in men.

It's written into our biology. Attractive feminine traits are those that indicate fertility. Attractive masculine traits are those that indicate strength (or more generally, ability to protect and provide resources and status).

Excessively masculinity in women is bad sign. It indicates high testosterone and low fertility. And it indicates trouble for a stable family. Likewise, excessive femininity in men is a bad sign. It indicates in an inability to protect and provide for his offspring. It indicates weakness that is trouble for a stable family.

Nowhere on earth is masculinity preferred over femininity in women. Nowhere on earth is femininity preferred over masculinity in men. Even gay guys want straight-acting men!

(And, no, masculinity and femininity are no more subjective or culturally dependent than physical beauty. We're talking about biological signals. If we weren't any good at detecting these signals, we wouldn't last ... or more to the point, organisms that weren't good at detecting it lost out and will always lose out to those that are good at it.)

Thus androgyny is objectively ugly, and a culture that celebrates it is insane or demonic.

A culture that celebrates it is doomed. Doomed to have barren women and cuckolded men. Doomed to be conquered by a culture that understands and lives according to reality.