My opinion is that beauty can be constructed and that's a good thing but our evolutionary traits have already decided what we will find beautiful. Russell gives our current perception of beauty a bad name. She says it is generic and is superficial while I think that there is no problem with this and that she makes a living off this perception and she should be great full. Amiee, to me is more agree able on her opinion of beauty. She herself is a cripple and that fact that beauty can be constructed is the only reason she gets any attention at all. She covers up her faults with constructed replacements. She is far from what Russell says is the normal person that is a model. Dalton is probably the most educated and uses hard facts in his definition of what makes us beautiful. He shows how evolution shaped is and how we really see beauty.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
I believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Many people have tried to identify beauty to an even more in depth view but I feel that this task is misguided, Camern Russel finds beauty to be superficial and constructed, while Amiee Mullins sees beauty as able to be constructed in a good way and that every one has the ability to be beautiful. Another speaker on the subject was Denis Dullton and I agree with his view point the most. He identifies what humans think is beautiful from an evolutionarily standpoint and shows that our history makes us more attracted to different things in different ways.
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Matthew, thank you for combining all three perspectives of beauty, but that was not the assignment for this blog.
ReplyDeleteFor this assignment you were only to Aimee Mullins' perspective on beauty.
I am glad that you enjoyed Dutton's perception. Can you elaborate? Meaning can you provide specific examples from his talk that support why his lecture appealed to you the most? I've included the transcript for you to help you include textual support.