I feel like no stupid questions includes no weird questions as well. Please don’t attack people for posting here.

No, it’s not.

That’s the problem, people are very diverse. Look around yourself for examples of couples (in real-life, not online), and I’m sure you’ll find many examples of “ugly” people of all genders being in happy relationships. I know a guy with a facial deformation in relationship with a beautiful woman, I know a seriously fat couple. The forever single people I know mostly have severe mental or personality issues.

Stopping dating because of looks sounds misogynistic. It implies all women are superficial, which is simply not true. I know several cases of men that could be seen as ugly for different reasons, who had no problem to find a partner thanks to their personality.

Snowflake

Or, alternatively, you could eat healthy.

I thought the small one was a parasite - wanting the sugar. It would work as a joke with specific taxa.

Ok, I’ll add my personal experience here. When I imagine something, like an apple, my perception of the imagined object ranges from a rather blurry apple to a very detailed apple, but anyway I do peceive it very visually. It’s definitely not just understanding in my case. I perceive the color, the shape, movements if need be, everything. When I do this, the normal perception coming from my eyes kind of shuts down and I only concentrate on “seeing” the thing I imagine, but if I focus I can also imagine something being somewhere in a real lication I see with my eyes, so then it feels a bit like AR. I’ve read somewhere that the same centers in the brain are active when you imagine something and when you see it, so you could say it’s a kind of deliberate visual hallucination. I can also do this with music - I can play it in my head and enjoy hearing it.

The negative impact is real and very important. And in the future it can be even worse.

I agree. I just percieve OP’s post as trying to find a lable because they just want to know whether there is one. It’s ok to want to know and telling them they don’t need it is not helpful.

Yes.

Of course you don’t have to fit a box. But it’s easier to communicate your preferences if there is a lable you can use for yourself. OP is trying to find out if there is such a shortcut they could use. Explaining that they don’t necessarily need to do that is not helpful.

Yep, but sometimes you want to communicate about your preferences, and then you need understandable terminology. Giving names to phenomena is generally useful. Discussing things is useful. Understanding natural diversity is great and important.

I’d argue it can alternatively be viewed as humanizing the animals instead of dehumanizing slaves. There are people who feel a human life is not superior to animal’s life. They see the suffering of domesticated animals (eg. cows, pigs) as a super cruel kind of slavery, without being less repulsed and shocked by human slavery.

I kniw that probably you didn’t mean it that way, but it sounds as though you’re excusing Raymond.

Birdman

Dating may or may not be, having children is not.

The my dad is hotter than yours is surely going on - that’s what it’s all about. It’s not some serious statistics, it’s meant as objectification. Not everything has to be present in the picture.

I do think people without direct experience are unable to understand the depth or the totalitarian evil. It’s just too terrifying to accept that one can be trully powerless, that any kind of resistance can lead not just to the destruction of themselves, but also their families, that the degree of bullying and control can be so high and the regard for human life so low.

It’s too scary, so normal human minds just refuse it as a possibility and try to imagine more optimistic scenarios.

It’s healthy not to lose hope, but it’s also not good to underestimate the evil and unfair to look down on the people facing it.

Well, I see objectification as looking at the surface of someone and evaluating how beneficial they could be to me, just like I would with goods in a shop - without acknowledging it’s not goods for me to chose from, it’s a person with as much agency as me and with rights, feelings and opinions that matter as much as mine.

And that’s what’s happening here.

It doesn’t really matter whether the evaluated person feels complimented or not. It would be slightly better (still kind of toxic though) if the evaluated participants agreed to participate beforehand.