Reply #70: I read the first so-called truth and knew it was a bunch of sh*t. [View All]

My personal pet peeve are people who assume beauty is what they see on television and in magazines today. Miller does the same with his attempt to rationalize why men like blond bombshells.

A quick look at past beauties clearly indicates that what we think of as blond bombshells have not always been considered beautiful throughout history. A late night Learning Channel show on oddities described a Victorian-day beauty who had passed away at the early age of 15. She was so beloved and beautiful (The entire town praised her beauty as indicated from letters written by the pastor, mayor and a blacksmith) that the grieving family actually had her stuffed and displayed in the home. The woman was passed down from generation to generation and could be seen in a British museum. When they finally showed the stunning beauty, she looked like a slightly overweight middle aged woman of today.

Miller fails to explain why some South American men prefer very hairy women, why many primitive black societies found blond hair repulsive, and why fat women were considered more beautiful than thin women in the middle ages. There is no beauty standard that can span the ages and all societies. The standard is what the times and society says it is. I've heard many a beauty expert say that Marlyn Monroe was too fat and would never be considered beautiful by today's standards.

Remember the Roman sculptors who went back to adding in imperfections because the flaws added to the beauty? This article comes across more like a puff piece that belongs in a fashion magazine and not in Psychology Today.