Defining beauty along those lines only reinforces the ideas that I’m trying to shift. A person’s sole purpose is not to perpetuate the species. There are enough humans now that it’s okay for a person to simply exist for the sake of existing, and be beautiful for the sake of beauty. I believe that people [...]

I wasn’t talking about sex. I wasn’t talking about physically attractiveness as a means to sex as an end. I wasn’t talking about beauty that way either. My analysis is simplistic, (superficial, you might say), because I am discussing something which is entirely superficial. I don’t really have an interest in the sexual aspects of [...]

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I read that piece in the NYT about fat people not automatically dying as soon as they become fat. I was so shocked that a paper that people read would publish that! Maybe the tide is turning and being fat is no longer a crime?