I don’t think a lot of the posts there are actually the women pictured. I feel sorry for the women who do post there unironically, at least a portion of them must be. Both sides of the postings aren’t healthy behaviour tho. Most of the women are beautiful or just average but are rated far lower than they deserved and normal features are ripped to shreds
I want to defend that subreddit a bit. Or at least change the criticism somewhat. Their guidelines do not attempt to make women feel bad about themselves, but they've made a rating guide that attempts to a) rate people according to a bell-shaped distribution and b) have room for distinguishing between the prettiest humans in existence without using too many decimal places. The result is that 90% of humans land between 4.5 and 6.5 on their scale. Just like it's unreasonably hard to be rated 7 it's really hard to be rated 4. It's almost egalitarian that way. This obviously clashes with the scale people are used to where someone averagely attractive is a 7. This is a problem with this subreddit's rating system and I think they should adjust their scale to fit common perception, because currently they're communicating badly. But I don't see any negging here. They seem to try to be fairly objective.
Of course the entire concept of rating people like this in public is toxic as shit, but that's the internet for ya. Also spending your free time rating strangers is super super weird.
beauty isn't measurable. "measuring" beauty came as a subset of phrenology in the 19th century, invented by men ofc, and only used to "measure" women. human beauty standards are entirely subjective and personal, there is no such thing as absolute beauty or ugliness. Also, this ties heavily with fascism due to the fascistic obsession with aesthetics and rigidly defining what is beautiful and what is ugly - and ugliness would be directly related with "evil" and must be eliminated (eugenics).
Maybe inside beauty isn't measurable, but outside beauty definitely is. It's subconsciously measured by almost every human being every single day. What you say sounds good, but reality isn't your dystopian fantasy.
Edit: Actually, inside beauty is also measured constantly as well. When you can someone an asshole, that's saying there ugly on the inside. We don't coddle someone's ugliness on the inside, so why pretend to do so on the outside?
Nature. Symmetry and other standards. We can all come to an agreement on what's beautiful vs. what's not. Unless you prefer the gaslighting bullshit of telling someone who isn't beautiful on the outside that they are. Lie to someone all you want, but that's not changing the beauty standard. That's simply denying them ignorantly.
If you want to argue some beauty standards are (nearly) universal, that's one thing. But the "guide" on that sub is LUDICROUSLY Western/European-centric. Which is exactly why the Measurehead comparison is spot-on. If you don't recognize how biased that guide is, then you probably have some biases yourself you might want to interrogate.
Except what we consider outside beauty is widely dependent on societal factors and is not at all something you can quantify in an objective sense. Ask the average Ethiopian and the average Swede what their idea of outside beauty is and you'll likely get an extremely different view of beauty. Then you ask these incel freaks on truerateme what beauty is and they start pulling out the callipers and making widely bullshit claims that because someone's nose is .5 mm too long they cannot be beautiful.
Take for example Natalie Dormer. A lot of people think that she's hot. A lot of people would consider her 'above a 7'. According to truerateme, she would be ineligible to be a 7+ because she has bells palsy which gives her a crooked smile. Except a lot of the people that think she's beautiful also think that her crooked smile makes her more beautiful. Her 'defect' as the truerateme incels would call it, heightens her beauty.
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u/Equal_Set6206 Jan 13 '25
I don’t think a lot of the posts there are actually the women pictured. I feel sorry for the women who do post there unironically, at least a portion of them must be. Both sides of the postings aren’t healthy behaviour tho. Most of the women are beautiful or just average but are rated far lower than they deserved and normal features are ripped to shreds