If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, why are we so obsessed with objective beauty? In this video essay I delve into why we're so invested in the idea of objective beauty and objective ugliness (hint it's capitalism and wh!t3 supremacy), as well as how we can divest from beauty and start valuing inner beauty.

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Intro: Subjective Beauty and Objective Ugliness 0:00
Part 1: Who Benefits from Objective Beauty? 3:37
Part 2: The Different Ways We Cope with Objective Beauty: From Body Neutrality to Red-Pilification 16:34
Part 3: Hyper-Radicalization and Gendered Beauty 24:25
Part 4: Does inner beauty matter? 31:32
Conclusion 40:31

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Aleem, H., Pombo, M., Correa-Herran, I., & Grzywacz, N. M. (2019). Is beauty in the eye of the beholder or an objective truth? a neuroscientific answer. In Springer series on bio- and neurosystems (pp. 101–110). [ Ссылка ]

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