Sunday 13 October 2019

No, we should not redefine beauty

Beautiful is beautiful. It means, well, pleasing to the eye. And indeed some people are better looking than others. Fact.

Now hear me out. I don't think we should redefine beauty to mean strong, to mean kind, or any other worthy characteristic. Why? Because well, why should beauty be the end-all? Why should beauty be all that matter?

Wouldnt it be better if we redefined -value-?

Yeah, youre not beautiful, but youre kind and that's more valuable.
You're not beautiful but you're smart, and that's waaay more useful.
Yeah, she's beautiful, but that's not getting us anywhere.

Nothing needs to be the new beautiful. We need to stop putting all the value on beautiful.

The end.