BEAUTY - How important is it to you?

[tekla]

I do runways shows once or twice a year, get to hang with the models out smoking, most of them are not plastic, they are really pretty, in jeans and tshirts.  And its as much in their poise as in their bones.  No one who is really pretty is not aware of it.  Same with ugly.

[Kara66]

It is very important to take care of your self.  Not everyone is born with natural beauty but if you make the effort to take care of yourself physicaly, emotionaly, and with good hygeine you are then Beautiful.  There are some that have natural good looks but live like slobs.  There are thoose that aren't naturaly great looking but they exercise, have a good outlook on things and dress nice.  I think you take what you have been given and try your best to improve on it and you are then Beautiful  no matter what.

[Annwyn]

I think I'm beautiful, as do plenty of others.

And if I wasn't, there's no way in hell I'd want to transition.

:-)

It's not simply the joy of being a woman, it's the joy of being a CELEBRATED woman, a beautiful one, that surpasses most GG's even.  Beauty defines femininity more than anything else I figure.

[Blanche]

I think I'm pretty. I don't think I'm amazingly beautiful.  How important is it (to me)? As important as the urge to survive.

[funnygrl]

Very. I've wanted to be a pretty girl my whole life. But I'll settle for being just a passable girl.

Ditto.

[Christine Eryn]

Beauty is very important to me. For myself, when I do get FFS, it will make a 180 degree differance with me. I have the basic feminine structure, just a few rounding of sharp points, and ironically straightning of round features, is what I need. Passing and looking OK is not good enough for me. I say why do a half ass job? I know some might argue this but it's my face that needs to go under the knife.

[Yvonne]

My looks are very important to me, my job demands it but now it seems I'm looking more for personality.  Getting old I guess.

[Annwyn]

Job demands it?  WOT WOT?

[Sarah]

I guess I'd rather have beauty than ugly, if that's the question. 

Yes, if I had a  preference, that would be mine.
-Sara

[tinkerbell]

Nero, I don't think this is a shallow topic at all.  Looks are very important as this essentially captures the eye of the beholder. For me, based on the physical attributes, it is something or anything that reveals symmetry and unity of structure.

Try look at the supermodels as an example. Aren't there bone structures and figures perfectly made? Their body curves are perfectly shaped to capture everyone's eyes. Beauty calls for a great appreciation for it; IOW it is a form of art that all humans look upon.  Is beauty important to me?  Of course! I'd be lying if I said that it isn't.

tink

[soldierjane]

Pretty important (it makes me happy), but wishing for more of it doesn't rule my life.

[Lori]

Very important. Its what my heart desires. It would change my life and allow that happiness I seek to find me and overwhelm me. I'd probably pass out from the emotion of it all.

[Hypatia]

I'm very happy that I'm a beautiful woman. I take good care of my looks.

[NicholeW.]

Yes, Nero, beauty is important. How important? Depends on the beauty. Physical beauty I feel really must take a back-seat to emotional and spiritual beauty.

We've spent 4000+ years dealing with male-judged standards of beauty for women as a chain used to bind us. But, honestly, there was a beauty in Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa and Mirabai that also seems even more important than the contours of face and torso, legs and hips.

Do I appreciate, like most oif the posters above, that physical beauty is important to me. Why, of course. But, I also see traps there that can snare the person in a prison as tight as that into which many of us are born (GID.)

A tough balance to achieve. Yet, I'd like to think I am working on it.

I find that all three beauty-types I mentioned are incredibly important to many women w/ whom I interact. They are important to me as well and I try to manage all three. The best beauty seems to me to be the elusive combination of all three within a person.

Nichole

[Laura91]

I don't care about being "beautiful", I look how I look and thats the way things are. I certainly don't believe in any type of "social pressure" to look beautiful and I feel sorry for those that feel that way. Just to clarify, I KNOW that pressure exists I just choose to ignore it. I don't believe that its a matter of whether you are male or female either. People who use the excuse of "well, I am a girl so I HAVE to be beautiful" are just conforming to the expectations of other people rather than thinking for themselves.

[DonnaC]

Although I agree that our physical appearance is very important to most of us, I would rather be thought of as beautiful on the inside as a person.

[Just Mandy]

Although I agree that our physical appearance is very important to most of us, I would rather be thought of as beautiful on the inside as a person.

LOL...I'd like to try beautiful... just for a little while... please.... I promise... I would work on the inner part harder



Amanda

[April221]

Beauty is important, in that I have pride in myself as a woman. However, it is not my priority; living my life as a woman is. My self-confidence. Make-up, hair, clothing. The expression on my face, my walk, and how I move, are some of the elements of both beauty and the experience of being female. They all work together as a statement as to who I am.

[Annwyn]

Hmmkay, I'm seeing al ot of inner beauty nonsense.

I couldn't give two ->-bleeped-<-s about inner beauty in someone who I was considering sexually or romantically if that person wasn't beautiful on the outside.  I hold myself to the same standards.  Inner beauty is fine and good, but it's outer beauty that matters.  Anyone can be a nice person, that's up to that individual, and as bad as it sounds, beauty is to a large degere a genetic thing, although taking the time to exercise and eat right makes an enormous difference as well as getting up in the morning and practicing good hygiene.

Physical appearance is the deciding factor in one of the greatest drive among the human population and that's the instinct to procreate.  Beauty signifies fertility, health, and genetic purety like symmetry of facial and body features.  So yes, beauty MATTERS.

[Hypatia]

Inner beauty is fine and good, but it's outer beauty that matters.

Wow Ms. Attitude have you ever got it backwards.