A Defence Of Lookism


Because he was ugly
We suspected him
Of every crime...

Lookism is the new racism in his we decide semi intuitively whether a person will be good or bad based on his facial appearance it is considered to be a derivative of Hollywood beauty standard that allow we now relate to people based on their standards of beauty , with Artificial Intelligence using Facial recognition software to determine a person behavior we might have an issue that won't go away as it being quietly hardwired into us that beautiful means beautiful soul/personality
As humans we are drawn to beautiful things, Its little wonder we organize beauty pageants just so we can see and appreciate the most beautiful people of that time. But now we have taken to another level where we use beauty as betoken of a person who is better, more understanding and even highly intelligent. We now adjudge people by how beautiful they are with the belief that if the book is going to be a good read, the writer will want the cover to be inviting at least, because the writer want people to read his book. Let look at this are we so wrong to develop this pattern of preconception, does it stem from trial and error or is it instinctively or we are all driven by hormones that seeks to better improve our genes regardless of the nature of our relationship with whomever we are appraising
We might be right because Our face are shaped by the frequency of motions like smiles and laughs and since we are all actors  our grimace, smiles, smirk, expression of fear and surprise contain modifications that we know we make us look beautiful or handsome, we never really let go when it comes to facial expression as we still use our face to appeal and win favors no matter our constraints As most of these expression have been practiced in the mirror
We like taking to beautiful people and seeing them always make us smile. So we trust them, we brave the tentacles of their defense and rationalize it as long as we see their face, they make us feel something and sometimes it's enough which is we would trust doctors, nurses or dentist who seem to feel we can fall in love with in case just during the filling of our teeth a virus sweep off the world population in a systole and our cubicle remains the only safe place at least we have a good chance of finding them attractive while we mourn the loss of our world
With beauty comes preconceptions that allows us to make inference into the personal life of whoever we are trying to get acquiesced with, for example my ice breaker with Saoirse 
Ronan would be "did you watch any cool cartoon lately" believing that she must definitely have a history with cartoon considering that she is a beautiful
with the growing unhappiness that plagues us today we are drawn to beautiful people who will help alleviate a little of the hate we feel inside make us smile and appreciate life more
and social media made this worse as we try our best to infer and project certain expectations on a person just by looking at a person's picture, J Cole's photograph backs this. But sadly we don’t give people without that aesthetic advantage the chance

Are we wrong, if facial expression bear mark of our previous activity with our face, people who are less pleasing facially have been frowning and countless bruxism which is betoken of a life of few joy and suffering that can make said person lack the conscience and relaxed nature that comes with dealing with a better class of person Issues regarding money, respect and a general laid back nature might be lacking
We like to improve our genes and people who are beautiful reveal a lot of their family background and must sure come from a background of stability and good genes that are a result of love and affection that build the conscience that human interaction ply constantly A good face also posit a general well being and good health something that we like to deny but is hardwired in our caveman instinct about dealing with people
We give more information in our bodies than we know though our body and mind carriage of self we reflect our background and the affluence of our family knowledge and experience is reflected in our gait,with grace and beauty, a  kind of selfishness and narcissism that comes with self adequacy that ultimately makes us attractive
Regardless, I still think Lookism  still falls under the scrutiny of the beholder who in looking for beauty looks for some of the things he considers beautiful and these thing can vary from eyes s to eyes for if lookism is the new racism it is still within the subjectivity of the person who dares to look with whichever patterns or past experience that shapes his adjudication of what he considers beautiful




by 
Victor Samuel

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