beauty

[Daniel Davies]

Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:45:15 -0700 
From: "Luke Weiger" 
Subject: Re: beauty 


>> But isn't beauty a function of class anyway? 

>Of evolution. 

Don't be silly. I'm absolutely agog to hear what kind of Just So Story you
and the rest of the Dawkinsite gang are going to tell to explain how, to
take a random example, standards of beauty take such radically different
approaches to the question of underarm hair on adult women. And so on, and
so on. 

People think that taking this sort of reductionist approach to complicated
social questions makes them look all cool and clever and "hard sciencey".
In actual fact, it just makes you look like you buy a lot of pop science
books at airports. 

dd 


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