Who's The Most Beautiful Woman (or Man) You Know?

[LikeAWillow]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

Alternately, if someone comes out and says they're ugly or that they feel that way, it's almost guaranteed that someone will try to dissuade them. So... looking at it like that, if you want to be black and white about it, then it seems no one can comment on their own appearance. I don't believe that, but you can't expect discussions about this without amounts of emotion coming into play.

I think it's interesting that you see that as a negative and (seemingly) as lying. I understand being objective, especially in a thread like this, but at the same time, most people do have something about them that's objectively physically pretty, whether it's good arms or eyebrows or a smile. Would you think it was wrong for someone to say to an unattractive person something like "No, you're not hideous, you have such a great ____ ?" I'm actually asking, by the way, that isn't rhetorical. I don't think that people who give out compliments to people who aren't Miss America are necessairly being patronizing.