• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    I mean, period people can be conventionally attractive, and also do awful things. Equating beauty with goodness and ugliness with evil is some Disney movie morality.

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      2 hours ago

      Also infantile and a bit fascist. And the poster feels slightly antisemitic to me personally, as a German who is professionally over-aware of these things.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      The halo effect is a real problem, Disney notwithstanding.

      Society needs to move on from the belief that beauty is a blessing from the gods. But its been a problem since forever.