Tag: beauty
Anjan Chatterjee talks about the neurology of creativity.
Have you ever had the experience of being so absorbed by a painting or a piece of music,” writes Anjan Chatterjee in his 2013 book The Aesthetic Brain, “that you lose all sense of space and time? These magical moments … are ironically deeply subjective. The problem, of course, is…
Facial Justice, a Novel About Postmodernist Hatred of Beauty
The first chapter contains the scene of two female friends meeting. The prettier of the two has been reported to the authorities for her good looks, and faces cumpulsory plastic surgery to level her down to the average standard. “It was my lashes they mostly picked on, for being too…
Am I Ugly?
Many young girls on the internet are asking this question lately. As I’ve said many times, the only truly ugly woman is one who has lost her womanhood. This can be done the Smigel way by worrying about the wrong thing and neglect, or the Darth Vader way of active…
Who Will Revere the Black Woman?” (September 1966) | Abbey Lincoln
As time progresses, I’ve learned that this description of my mothers, sisters, and partners in crime is used as the basis and excuse for the further shoving, by the Black man, of his own head into the sand of oblivion. Hence, the black mother, housewife, and all-round girl Thursday is…
New Videos on Relationships
I’ve posted a couple of videos, one on the role of looks in relationships, and the infamous “friends with benefits”.