Every four point five days, someone (frequently me) starts a superficial thread in Cafe Society alleging that a given celebrity is or is not hot/beautiful/pretty/whatever, or arguing that there’s a difference between hot and being beautiful, or some other silliness. Every time such a discussion begins, people start throwing around the phrase “objective beauty,” alleging that a given person – say Adele Atkins – while attractive to many persons, is so because of personality rather appearance; while another another person – say Cobie Smulders is virtually certain to be judged attractive by all persons of the opposite sex. Put differently, some persons hereabouts think that such a thing as objective beauty exists.
I’m not going to be coy as I sometimes am. I don’t think any such thing as objective beauty exists, even within a specific culture (unless you definite culture so narrowly as to make it meaningless).
I’m not sure how many of y’all will agree with me. But that’s what the poll is for, isn’t it?
Public results because I’m a big jerk, which, unlike beauty, has some objective basis.