[Rq-rules] Re: Farewell to CON and thoughts on APP

[Paul Cardwell]

--- Styopa <styopa1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think looks have always played a deep part in not
> only the selection of
> mates, but leaders as well.  

You mean like Hitler, Napoleon, Lincoln, Ghandi, etc.?

> Your examples are
> worthy, but there are a
> number of examples of (typically) men doing stupid
> things for beautiful
> women - Cleopatra, and of course Helen of Troy leap
> to mind.  I'd hardly say
> that in either of those cases, appearance - and the
> consequences of their
> beauty - was irrelevant.

We have no idea what Helen of Troy looked like, and
have only a profile of Cleopatra VII (from coins).  I
remember an essay "If Cleopatra's nose had been an
eighth of an inch longer."  I suspect her fluency in
six or eight languages, the power of her position
(especially after she bumped off her brother) and the
strategic position of her country had a lot more to do
with it.  It is also significant that few of the
artists' versions of her resemble her coins.

Also consider how many "great beauties" of the past
since the development of photography get a ho-hum if
not a giggle now - pencil-thin eyebrows, bee-sting
lips, flat or topheavy chests, the list is endless. 
The horrible part is that I have lived through most of
these changes in "beauty".

Paul Cardwell

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