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'Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' they say.

This signifies that beauty is subjective, this means that what I find beautiful depends on my personal opinion or taste.

But is it?

I think, these days beauty is more relative than subjective.

The subjective nature of beauty.

In the article I published a few days back, I wrote that I was going to share the content of the Korean drama I was watching. The title is "My ID is Gangnam beauty"

It tells the story of a young girl who was bullied since she was little because she was supposedly ugly. On getting admission to University, she decided to do plastic surgery and she became pretty and popular.

She had another problem again, it was pretty obvious that she did surgery hence the name "Gangnam beauty" because her face was too perfect to be natural. She had double eyelids that everyone wanted, the right size of the nose, right jaw. She looked like a typical girl that had done surgery.

There was this guy, he was the most handsome in their department, he knew her right from middle school when she was 'ugly' and had a crush on her then.

One time, when they started dating, he told her that he missed her old face. He said she looked cute. I think he was the only one that found her cute apart from her parents. She didn't believe him, she didn't understand how he could like the face she was mistreated for all her life but somehow he did.

The relative nature of beauty.

This simply refers to the way we judge looks these days based on other people. We rate people with fair complexion higher on the beauty chain because they are deemed attractive.

There's a standard of beauty and people are trying to meet up with it(i subconsciously do this).

For women, being curvy but slim is the new trend. To have a good quantity of derriere and boobs with a flat tummy and a nice shape is something most girls try to fit into. Being extremely fair is everyone's goal much to the bleaching cream companies' pleasure(or toning cream as they put it these days).

Being extremely dark is frowned upon by most so people do anything to stop their melanin secretion. I even heard that some jobs require light-skinned individuals only.

I'm very dark in complexion and I can't count the number of times people have suggested the lotion I should use to 'tone' my skin or blatantly asked me if I used charcoal in place of lotion but 'I get coconut head' and refuse to do anything to jeopardize my melanin secretion.

For Men, short men are frowned upon, the tall men are smiled at. Then there's the issue of abs, the famed six-packs. Mostly, muscled men are rated higher and considered more manly. Men without beards usually are in sadness, I know people that have tried so many things just to grow beards because people with beards are supposedly more manly. Guys that have all these qualities accompanied with a fine face and money will definitely be popular and have their way with most women because that's the 'standard'

If beauty really is subjective, then it won't matter if the person you want or desire fits into any of the acclaimed standards. You would love them with all the flaws but that seems highly impossible.

So, maybe the subjective nature of beauty is just fiction, it's just something unreal.

Or maybe beauty is really in the eyes of the beholder and there's this particular thing we like in our love interest so much that it doesn't matter if they fit into the standard.

What do you think? Is it a fact or fiction for you?

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November 25, 2021

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