Feminists outraged - Chinese art exhibition ranks 6000 college students by their beauty.
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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.