"All women are beautiful". True or false? Why?

Question

Also, what about men? Are all men beautiful?



Also, what exactly constitutes beautiful for you? Should beauty refer to the person as a whole, or to just their physical traits?

Answer 1

False. The phrase implies that beauty is completely subjective. There are some objective measures as well such as facial symmetry or simplicity. If there was no such thing as beauty then why would there be supermodels at all? The same goes for both men and women. Beauty is an emergent property which depends upon subject-object interaction and as such is neither completely objective but is most certainly not completely subjective. Personality being "beautiful" is a misnomer (congenial is a better word). The fact is that physical beauty and personality interact. The more beautiful you are, the better people will tend to treat you (termed the Halo Effect). So it could be that those with a "beautiful" personality are actually beautiful physically and have created a "beautiful" personality because others have treated them well. So a congenial personality is an interaction between the person's environment and the person's outward appearance.

"Also, what exactly constitutes beautiful for you? Should beauty refer to the person as a whole, or to just their physical traits"?

Beauty refers to the person as a whole (i.e. their entire physical form). Though the term could also refer to any particular attribute (i.e. he has a beautiful face). I prefer to use congenial to refer to personalities.

Finally I'll add that anything that is defined as subjective has no meaning. If we define beauty as anything anyone wants to believe then we get contradicting forms of beauty. Beauty could be both "short and stout" and "tall and trim". If this is the case then the word is meaningless. In that case it would be amazing that anyone could begin to comprehend the question. But believing so means that we must also deny the very truth that comes up everytime we open a magazine or interact with another human being. There are objective truths to be found regarding beauty. They may be hard to swallow, but truth is more important than feelings.

Answer 2

False. Neither 'all women' nor 'all men' are beautiful.

'Beauty' is a judgment call. My criterion for judgment seems to be 'perfectly meet with purpose.' Once I see a purpose (or have a purpose of my own), I can judge beauty.

I often find beauty in the shape of tools. Even very common items are 'beautiful' to me.

E.g., I have a glass next to me at the keyboard, and it is beautiful. Utterly without ornament. Not a perfectly cylindrical glass, it tapers subtly wider from the base to the opening and is thus a conic section; but it would be easy to mistake it for a cylinder. I had to roll it on a flat surface to verify the true shape. The tapered bore (also very subtle) makes the opening slightly larger, and changes the radius of curvature very slightly; this makes it very slightly easier to drink from. The glass of the sides is very thin, but a 'bead' is supplied at the edge to swell the contacted surface to a comfortable dimension. The difference there is measured in hundredths of a millimeter. The glass will accommodate twelve ounces, but not thirteen ounces. A can of soda or beer fits perfectly. (I'm drinking a wine punch now, however.) The glass is thicker at its base, and the makeweight difference is perfect: it's not a lightweight that will tumble over if you brush against it accidentally, nor is it a heavyweight that you carry to your lips awkwardly. There are other aspects of this glass that further confirm its beauty--but I'll spare you those. Suffice it to say "I love my beautiful glass, even when it's empty."

'Beauty' can be judged also in dynamics; any NFL guy will see 'beauty' in the play on a football field--and 'ugly' as well. 'A beautiful piece of work' is meaningful for most of us, I think.

The problem I have with "All women are beautiful" is that I don't see a purpose for, nor do I have a purpose of my own for 'all women.' The criterion I use most habitually is usually not appropriate with such broad categorical terms.

I cringe a bit when others use the term 'beauty' differently than I use it.

Answer 3

All people have the potential to be beautiful. Beauty is not just physical attributes; it's the whole person, the spirit, the attitude, the kindness. And that's where some men and women lose it! There's so much hatred, anger, jealousy, and prejudice and it totally ruins a person's looks.

Answer 4

The concept of what is physically beautiful has changed over the decades. I really feel sorry for younger people, now, who aspire to a concept of beauty the includes plastic surgeries and being obsessed with products in an effort to look like their favorite public figures or to hold back the tides of time. If even a fraction of the time and money people spent on their looks could be channeled to a charitable cause think what a difference that could mean. Even our environment suffers from our national obsession to looking "perfect" in terms I won't go into in this question.

To answer your question, are all women beautiful--- To me beauty is a combination of personality and physical qualities. The better you know someone, the less their looks matter. This is why people who truly love each other can age together gracefully and not seem to notice the wrinkles and gray hair. I don't think all people are beautiful because there are some nasty-*** people out there and no matter how many 'procedures' they get they'll never overcome their personality flaws.

EDIT to Super Ruper: The term "inner beauty" has nothing to do with being politically correct, in my opinion. I believe the term was born to get people to quit obsessing about their outer beauty and start thinking about their characters. It's scary to think we're raising a couple of generations of kids who are so swallow in how we judge each other.

Answer 5

This is a question that requires deep thought to answer. Beauty is an abstract term, what may be beautiful to one may be ugly to another. This is also reinforced by cultural, and learned traits, so that no two people ever have the same concept of beauty. So a basic answer is that all people are beautiful because all people find beauty in different things. If you add in peoples personalities, morals, and other things it only gets all the more complicated. In the end everybody and nobody is beautiful because nobody really has the same idea of beauty.

Answer 6

Beauty is in the beholder's eyes, and even context applies to beauty.
Lets take an example: from an aesthetic view, spiders aren't pretty nice, but if you see them from a naturalist's viewpoint, the adaptation it has undergone, how it moves, how efficient it is at surviving, makes it one of the most beautiful creatures in the world. In fact, due to the harmony and organization they need to be called "living", every living thing is, indeed, beautiful.
So, indeed, both men and women are beautiful, probably the most beautiful things of the known universe, due tho their harmony, complexity and intelligence.
As for physical traits, im an heterosexual male, so i find women beautiful, and my margin is very broad.

Answer 7

All human beings are beautiful: wondrous, miraculous creatures. It is amazing to think that the universe has evolved to understand itself through intelligent, self-aware inhabitants. Human beings are fascinating.

It may be that all human beings have some beauty distinct to them as individuals, if only we are willing to look and able to see. I don't know if that's true, but I wouldn't rule it out.

Certainly, not all women (nor all men) are beautiful in the sense that we associate with sexual attraction, though I would also say that physical beauty goes quite beyond that.

An elderly woman's face may convey dignity and wisdom (and this is the character of her face, before she opens her mouth, before you can judge if she actually has those traits) and that to is beauty, though not a source of sexual attraction (at least not for me). And there are many ways that someone can be physically beautiful without being sexually desirable (to me).

Personality is also a factor, but just physical beauty is a more varied thing than many recognize when they treat "beautiful" and "physically attractive" as synonymous.

Answer 8

All people have a potential of being beautiful or ugly regardless of how you define beauty. A woman who looks like a goddess can be ugly as hell if she has a horrible personality. Likewise, a woman who is physically homely can become beautiful if she has an amazing personality.
Personally, I consider someone beautiful when they have a little of both. I actually DON'T like the drop dead hotties most men like. I prefer somewhat geeky looking girls. I also don't like women that are unrealistically warm, sensative, giving, etc. I like a woman who has a little selfishness and egocentricity, but is generally a good, caring, giving person.

Also, culture influences beauty. Like in America, weight is a HUGE factor on someone's rating of being beautiful. I've seen men and women others rate as "hot" who are thin, but disgusting looking and I've seen men and women who are very attractive but a little chunky who get the thumbs down from peers (male or female). As for me, I like a chunky woman...not too thin, but not morbidly obese.

I guess I'm just odd with how I personally define beauty, but I can also recognize what others normally see as beautiful.

Answer 9

I think most everyone is considered beautiful to someone, even if to most people they are physically ugly, or their personality is considered ugly to some. So yes, in a way, all people are beautiful..

But at the same time it makes me wonder about those people who seriously have no one that cares about them.

To me beautiful refers to the person as a whole.

Answer 10

I think that everyone is beautiful in their own way, they may not look like Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson,Usher, or Orlando Blume, because those r just some people that other people like, if I think that someone is beautiful, then someone else may think that they r ugly, lots of people don't like people that aren't very attractive, but do we really have a choice of what we look like, u didn't choose 2 be a girl, or a boy, God made everyone, and God don't make mistakes so everyone is beautiful, but if they ain't got no eyes, ears, nose, mouth, nor legs, and feet, then they r what u call "ugly".
"Ugly is the man who does not exist."