http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the ... the-eye-th
In the most recent version of this experiment, newborn babies less than one week old show significantly greater preference for faces that adults judge to be attractive. Another study shows that 12-month-old infants exhibit more observable pleasure, more play involvement, less distress, and less withdrawal when interacting with strangers wearing attractive masks than when interacting with strangers wearing unattractive masks. They also play significantly longer with facially attractive dolls than with facially unattractive dolls. The findings of these studies are consistent with the personal experiences and observations of many parents of small children, who find that their children are much better behaved when their babysitters are physically attractive than when they are not.
Even the most ardent proponents of the traditional view that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” must admit that one week (or even a few months) is not nearly enough time for infants to have learned and internalized the (supposedly arbitrary) cultural standards of beauty through socialization and media exposure. These studies instead strongly suggest that the broad standards of beauty might be innate, not learned or acquired through socialization. The balance of evidence indicates that beauty is decidedly not in the eye of the beholder, but might instead be part of universal human nature.
Damn man, those social constructs work FAST! Do they start working when the baby is in the womb? Maybe uteruses these days have tvs in them showing popular western TV, which let the patriarchal messages sink in before the child is even born.
As for the media thinking that Marilyn Monroe is fat...
http://www.topnews.in/light/files/marilyn-monroe5.jpg
http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big ... itch_L.jpg
Are you high? There is no fucking way that woman would be described as "fat". I'm not American so I don't really know who she is beyond that Kennedy/Lincoln joke everyone's heard of, but saying that the media would call her fat is insane. I still find her attractive, and I even find that women famed for their beauty in foreign cultures are attractive as well - If you look up SNSD, you'll see some incredibly attractive women, considered attractive in non western culture as well.
Also, pre-emptively:
For any given scientific generalization, it is always easy to recall an anecdote or example that is contrary to the general pattern, such as “I know a man who...” or “I know a woman who....” As I explain in an earlier post, science is empirical, not logical, which is why there is no such thing as a scientific proof. The existence of exceptions and counterexamples, which invalidate mathematical proofs, do not invalidate scientific conclusions and empirical generalizations. You may know a man who finds elderly, obese women sexually attractive, but that does not invalidate the conclusion that men in general find young women with low waist-to-hip ratios sexually attractive.
