Feminists outraged - Chinese art exhibition ranks 6000 college students by their beauty.
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Song is a fucking pervert.
If we can't see one, I do want to see the person at the bottom.
I couldn't find 5000, but I did find this representative sample that goes from 3 to around 4600 with some big jumps in between. The first few honestly don't look that attractive to me, but the later ones were definitely quite ugly.
https://v.qq.com/x/page/v0545i47ax3.html
Seems to overly prioritize tall and skinny. The 100s have plenty of girls that are cuter imo but not as tall and thin as the top scorers.
Around 4000+ they seem to be either genuinely ugly, fat, or androgynous. The androgynous ones come off as attractive relative to their direct competition to me. I'm sure tomboys in baggy jeans hold more appeal than whatever system this is giving them. (Though maybe a chubby chaser might be saying the same about the fat ones.)
There's no reason to think she deserves that.
The people getting outraged by this wouldn't give a shit if it was men.
I would. Even if the last guy isn't some poor bastard who got mauled by a dog when he was a toddler, it's still a shitty thing to do.
I’m slightly shocked the museum accepted the exhibit in the first place. Besides the feminazi objections, the guy also took all of the pictures secretly without permission. I can’t imagine it would be legal to then put those pictures on public display.
It's in China, I would be more surprised if they have any sort of legal expectation of privacy. Heck, I'm sure there are plenty of places it would be legal in America, there was one case where a guy was caught taking upskirt pics of young girls and he wasn't charged (to the extreme frustration of the judge) because of some wording of how the law defined public and private spaces.
From the video linked above, he stood in the middle of the street with a handheld camera of some sort.
While I agree it's a shitty thing to do, most cultures have given up on trying to stop anyone filming in public.
https://m.douban.com/group/topic/231125752/
That's fucked up, tbh.
Then again, half the art installations ever are.
Isn't this how Zuckerberg started Facebook?
I have to agree with the feminists on this one. According to Newsweek, the piece is a montage of photos taken without the permission of the subjects and ordered by the artist's opinion of their beauty. Imagine finding out that your photo was being displayed without your permission. Not only that, but your photo was ranked low and the artist described looking at you and others of your level of attractiveness (in his opinion) as "a living hell".
I agree that this is tasteless and rude, but I will say that after seeing the lowest ranked ones it seems they're ugly on purpose. Kind of like a Chinese version of western women dying their hair bright blue, shaving half of their head, and getting a bunch of hideous tattoos. Calling them ugly is just stating a fact.
In the video, all of the lowest ranked girls, with almost no exceptions, looked like men. They wore masculine clothes and cut their hair in what I can best describe as "hobo who wants to look semi-presentable for the welfare office chic". They also clearly never bathed. I'm guessing China has a similar problem as the west where ugliness and disgustingness is being celebrated as good and the artist was trying to make a point.
Or he's just a coomer and the point was made accidentally. Either way.
There were a few of those as well. I know I saw a side-shave + red stripes in the 4,000s.