Feminine Beauty: Cresting, The Beautiful and The Sublime

When does Feminine Beauty peak? After the peak comes the drop right? The Daily Mail asked several women writers this question: When do you start losing your looks?

Most were delusional to an astonishing degree. This woman thinks 50 year olds are still beautiful:


Only one of the women was realistic:
Yes, of course, in my heart of hearts I know that there is a beauty to be found in age, wisdom and self-confidence. It's just like many of the women who think, aged 28, they've lost their looks, I'm just not entirely sure I'd choose that sort of beauty over the beauty that lies in being 18.

What is beauty? Lots of evolutionary stuff - waist hip ratios and the like. Yawn. Or how about the Burkean philosophy of the sublime and the beautiful? The beautiful is homely, earthy, like a well kept garden or gentle stream. Anthropomorphically, this would be your 7-9's: cute, everything in its right place, dainty little smile, dimples etc. Like an adored pet.

The Beautiful:




















Awwww... the kind of girl your parents would like, and other areas respond to as well. The 'homecoming', if you will.



The sublime is the 10. Ethereal, otherworldly, even slightly inhuman: like Andromeda in infrared or an alpine peak. It boggles the mind, and is a little frightening too. The Sublime:





The 10 might have a weird personality. In Magic Bullets Savoy explains:
From an early age, they learn the rules don't apply to them. Men will give them access to high-status social events, money, and excitement most women their age never get... they find themselves irrationally hated by other women... treated as objects... Unless they have strong personalities or strong family and peer netwoorks, many extremely attractive women end up a little bit loopy.

Do the same dynamics play out with age? Maybe not. Women take a while to recalibrate their attractiveness level to any new environment, as the delusional Daily Mail women demonstrate.

But overall, women usually underrate their own OBJECTIVE beauty: Women and teens are relatively modest when it comes to assessing their own beauty. On average, women and teens rated themselves as a 6.1 on a scale from 1 to 10, (10 being most beautiful.)

Age and beauty. I think beauty peaks age 17-22. These are the girls I am most physically attracted to. A higher ratio of both the sublime and the beautiful in this group. In fact, most girls this age are 'beautiful' to some degree - their natural girliness and skin makes them so. And the sublime is mostly found around here as well. Those Alpine Peaks!

Eat Well

I eat an enormous amount of food. My breakfast - weetabix, coffee, smoothie, boiled egg, donut, valenica orange, topped off with some vitamin tablets. My lunch is a dinner. My dinner has at least three courses. And so forth. I have good metabolism, and am not fat. I believe wholeheartedly in eating your fill.

And what of the greatest athlete (possibly ever) Michael Phelps? 11 OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS! How does this physiological masterpiece eat?

Phelps' diet - which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal - resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian.

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.

He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

This titan of our time eats like a champion, a true Hercules.

WAR! Russia Vs Georgia

As the world turns.

If Georgia was a NATO member, as the clowns in America and Britain want, wouldn't they have a legal obligation to intervene in this ridiculous fight?

The main problem here is ethnic diversity.

What is the difference between South Ossetia and Kosovo? Kosovars = Muslims, few allies, perfect victims. South Ossetians: Russians, big allies, perfect villians. But in substance? Zilch. Even their histories are similar.

Neocon Wilsonians must side with the Ossetians. But then Saakashvili is such a good neocon too: American educated, troops in Iraq, so he can't be the baddie.

Another vindication of Niall Ferguson's ethnocentric view of history and his magisterial War of the World. He has written stuff on Russia's enclaves I could dig up.

Svante Cornell has an informative piece in the Guardian. Anti-Russian, but full of tidbits. A hilarious conclusion:

It is now important for western leaders to realise that their silence so far has only encouraged Moscow's aggressive behaviour, and that they must now stand in solidarity with Georgia – in deeds, not only in words. Whether they do so will determine the future not only of the Caucasus, but also for Europe's security.

In deeds? What deeds can the west do up in the mountains? And how will it impact Europe's security? Gas security maybe, but who cares?

Richard Beeston says:

"The outcome of this struggle will determine the course of Russia’s future relations with its neighbours, will shape President Medvedev’s presidency, could alter the relationship between the Kremlin and the West and decide the fate of future energy supplies from the Caspian basin."

He rightly calls out the reckless Saakashvili: Part of the responsibility must lie with President Mikheil Saakashvili... seeking to reintegrate the separatist provinces by force is a risky, some would say reckless, move that threatens to trigger an all out war between Russia and Georgia..

THE TWO REASONS: NATO AND KOSOVO.

In the Telegraph Robert Parsons says:

Two key events well beyond Georgia's borders have triggered Russia's fury. The first was Kosovo's declaration of independence in February and the new country's subsequent recognition by many Western states. This brought a public warning from Moscow that Kosovo's move to independence could set a precedent for Georgia's two breakaway regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The second was Nato's pledge at the Bucharest summit in April that membership of the Atlantic Alliance for both Georgia and Ukraine was not a matter of "if" but "when", although in deference to Russian objections, no timetable for entry was granted. This provoked Vladimir Putin, then still Russia's president, to promise more support for Georgia's breakaway regions.



I feel for both sides. It's a beautiful part of the world.

UPDATE!!

The Daily Mail reports 1,400 civilians dead. Georgia has gone for full mobilization, even calling the troops in Baghdad's Green Zone home.
ASTONISHING words from Saakashvili: Saakashvili said the conflict 'is not about Georgia anymore. It's about America, its values. I thought that America stands up for those freedom-loving nations and supports them. 'That's what America is all about. That's why we look with hope at every American.'

Two clear roads diverge for the neocons of the world. Where will they go?

On Elephant Seals

Something over at GNXP.

I wonder how the modern world - the vastness of it, has changed this. I recall a fact that historically, 40% of men have reproduced and 80% of women. I do be thinking what it is today.

Things that will hurt alpha reproduction:

Paternity tests: betas are now much wiser to the cuckoldry threat. Women who use this tactic are taking a giant risk.
Birth Control: alpha's like random sex. The act itself, they never really cared about the result. There is no "fitness gain" to amassing a pile of sexual partners anymore.

Things that are helping alpha reproduction:

The Welfare State: free cash for single mothers specifically, but the whole rotten system really. Women now marry the taxpayer instead of a "beta" husband. They get knocked up by pump-n-dumpers... not correlated 100% with alphaness of course, but still.
Modern technology: planes, phones, myspace, the whole trottin-round-the-track lot. The stories I have heard of players meeting girls on myspace. you wouldn't believe.
The modern woman: The Beast Unleashed!!!! A billion girls pounding toward the cities of the West, from all over, every-frickin-where: Foul Arabia, Old & New Europe, Latin America, they come and come, Gorbachev's cute, apple-faced offspring out from the gulag, and now all clawing. Clawing I tell you! Themselves and each other!! to nab that one... ALPHA MAN. And if they can't get him, and they can't, they're willing to share. That's the culture, no!!!??? And the MEN just wait and fish. Oh mercy. The true female nature unleashed. It's elephant seal land baby!!!
Western Culture: It's true essence kept underwrap until now, like a sleeping dragon. But the romeo-and-juliet revolution is now blossomed fully! Little dandelions of love here and there. Love is now an emotion!! Mind rubbish!!! Garbage you kill yourself over. And what does that mean my little dumplings!?/ Well, it's effects pertain mainly to the female. Yes the women. Love and women, women and love, what a pair!!!

You see, here's what I seeeee... all the world and all the ways at all the times organised the pair in the best of ways for the longest of days. Oy, gimmie a breath... ok... but then came the romeo-and-juliet state-break, and then love became the Most. Important. Thing. A triumph for freedom, Sam himself said so!! Ok great... but vat ist love? Love was a kind of activity, you grew to love someone as you lived with them and faced all the toughness of the world. It wasn't so much an emotion as an activity. But then the west came up with a grand new idea: love became an emotion, something just felt: mind garbage. "I love you", and it's opposite "I don't feel it anymore"... the emotional mind garbage, and the end of the emotion mind garbage. Love my friends. Love, love, love.

But here's the key: is this not the female idea of love? All feeling and fluff? Comes whenever and leaves soon after.

In all the books and stories of the west women desire the alphas, the alpha's the hero, the ALPHA CAUSES THE MIND GARBAGE. All the books, and then the movies etc, all this building up in the female brain, buttressed by technology, all this pent up need for The Alpha, waiting, waiting, waiting to burst like a volcano and spew out over the fucking planet. And then it did. The 1960's came and went. Women unleashed!!!! The great story of our time. Alphas were besieged, bombarded by these hordes clawing on their doors.

You see it is not the alpha who is the true agressor. No, it is the female-s pursuing him.

The outcome of all these scrapping genetic packages?

A thousand years of stony elephant seal coupling, and a boundless line of rough beasts slouching towards the dole office.