IIN that I think men are more beautiful than women?

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  • It's subjective, influenced by environment, culture and biology.

    I think finding men more beautiful is less socially acceptable than finding women more beautiful - that's for both men and women. We are constantly encouraged by art and media to view women as beautiful objects to be superficially admired and sexualised.

    Holding the feminine aesthetic ideal to an esteem beyond the masculine aesthetic ideal makes beauty synonymous with femininity, simultaneously making ugly synonymous with masculinity (since they are generally opposites). It creates a culture where women and men generally admire females physically more than males, especially publicly, and this is self perpetuating; you only need to look at the art world, television and cinema to see this continuation of the feminising of beauty.

    So Western civilisations generally encourage the opposite to what you consider beautiful, OP, but I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who hold the same view as you, or find men and women equally beautiful in different ways :)

    I'm a straight guy but can definitely appreciate the aesthetic beauty of some men and the masculine ideal.

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    • I like your point. It makes a lot of sense. I wonder if in our country men were socially held as the "fairer" sex. I wonder how different things would be.

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    • Very eloquently stated

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