What Should a “Beautiful” Person Look Like?
It’s a habit people get into – they encounter a person and make judgements about how they look. To them it’s as if there’s a universal standard of what a beautiful man or woman looks like. . This judgement not only affects how many critique cisgender people but how they critique those who’ve chosen to present themselves as nonbinary, or those who have realized that to be themselves they must identify as transgender in the variety of ways that people identify with that reality. Such judgements of who is good looking go beyond just saying that the looks of that person are not my personal idea of beauty by becoming absolute statements that those people ARE not beautiful or pretty or handsome in the way the critic thinks someone should be. With the coming out of some as transgender, these ideas of “beauty” can also be challenged by new presentations, but they’re ideas that should be challenged anyway because of the usually unhealthy cultural gender roles they represent . Definitions and