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zazen

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10. I see your point: perhaps they could have added a third door labelled "human"
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 01:00 AM
Apr 2015

In a Foucauldian/critical theory sense the supposed freedom from the constraining notion (ugly, average) is produced and thus similarly constrained/mandated in advance. Maybe a third door without any label would have been ideal.

What's confusing although understandable is that the term beautiful is being used differently throughout this thread. We all seem to want to expand the term itself to mean "sacred" or "unique and equal member of the human race"--anything to push beyond the narrow, oppressive cultural definition of physical beauty--but the very dichotomization reinforces what it intends to critique.

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