(sorry for chiming in so late; I'm just now catching up on the stuff I missed when my phone was out.)
I too am troubled by the elements in the fifth circle being all negative.
Beauty is a power. Beautiful two-year-olds get more attention and better treatment from the adults around them than their neighbors who are less pleasant to look at, and I suspect that's also true of beautiful fifteen-year-olds.
The power exists whether or not the attractive person is using it deliberately.
Is it only "sexualization" if it is deliberate?
Is this power intrinsicly more problematic than other powers that can sway people?
As you can see, I am not yet really articulate on this issue.
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Date: 2007-11-05 07:08 am (UTC)I too am troubled by the elements in the fifth circle being all negative.
Beauty is a power. Beautiful two-year-olds get more attention and better treatment from the adults around them than their neighbors who are less pleasant to look at, and I suspect that's also true of beautiful fifteen-year-olds.
The power exists whether or not the attractive person is using it deliberately.
Is it only "sexualization" if it is deliberate?
Is this power intrinsicly more problematic than other powers that can sway people?
As you can see, I am not yet really articulate on this issue.