![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hi! Bardiac - I had to review my Chaucer after hearing from you! :) RUSTY! I noted with interest that while in Hoffman's Nutcracker, the "beautiful" one (Marie) stays with the "ugly" one willingly / by choice, in the Wife of Bath's tale the knight has to marry the "loathely lady" totally AGAINST his wishes he doesn't "look past" what is skin dip, or see lovability despite the exterior, but rather is dragged kicking and screaming (figuratively) to the altar and is still miserable with time, until he comes to the enlightened (?) choice of letting his wife choose to be who she wants to be. Could it be that our capacity for judging by standards, for defining what is beautiful or not to ourselves, is the root of much of the world's evil - cruelty, prejudice, racism, classism, abuse, betrayal, hurtfulness, pride, vanity, having the wrong priorities? Yet it's that same capacity that gave my children and me the wondrous experience of a magical night at the ballet. ![]() I guess it's normal and human to assess what we see, categorize it as appealing or not, beautiful or not, but applying those assessments to human beings has led to so much pain and suffering in this world. What's really eating at me is the fact that I am capable of even thinking the uncharitable thought that someone is unattractive, just on sight, even if that someone is me in the mirror. I am bothered by the fact that I've thought shallow thoughts too as I watch physically "mismatched" celebrity couples strolling down the red carpet. I am uncomfortable with the fact that this has been observed as an identifiable "type" of couple, and also with the observation that the reverse-type is uncommon. Already noted more than once in magazine and internet articles on human relationships: the attractive female / seemingly-unappealing male combination. ![]()
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