wrapped up like a douce, another runner in the night
bitzao
::07 feb 2007 :: 12:57am
what if for the first 25 years of your life you were blind. lets say you were born blind, grew up that way, were accustomed to not being able to see anything but complete darkness and maybe some blurry shades of light here and there. lets also say that you got married. and your relationship with your significant other was built on personality alone. what sensual, erotic things would you experience with your lover? your knowledge of that person would be on touch, taste, smell, hearing alone. you would never had ever seen them. you would have felt their face, but you would never know color their eyes or hair was.
now, lets say that one day you go into surgery and have new eyes put in. now you can see for the first time. you are for the first time in your life being given a new sense with which to judge how you feel about different aspects of your life. do you think that your perspective on that person might change after seeing them for the first time? or would that be completely shallow and superficial. most people would probably say yes, of course, that would be shallow and superficial. but what if, you see the person for the first time ever that you've spent the last 20 years with, and they are so god awful ugly that you cannot stand to look at them one minute longer? what would you do?
Well, that's a relativistic assumption. See, if you'd been without sight for that entire duration, your perspective on beautiful would not be skewed by years of relentless bombarding by magazines, television, beer ads, etc. True, studies have shown an inherent trend toward finding symmetry in features attractive, as denoting healthy breeding potential, but as for the rest? You'd have no basis for comparison. Is ugly just ugly, or is it what we're taught?
exactly ray. what is ugly, and who decides it.