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Beauty's rejected rough draft, judged by people who can't draw either.
means The quality of being unpleasant to look at — a physical or aesthetic unattractiveness judged harshly by whoever's doing the looking.
from From Middle English 'uggeli,' built on the Old Norse root 'uggr,' meaning dread or fear. So the word didn't start out about appearances at all — it meant 'fearsome' or 'dreadful.' Somewhere along the way, 'ugly' drifted from 'makes you afraid' to 'makes you wince,' trading terror for mere bad looks.
- symmetry bias
- brains equate symmetry with health, not truth
- beauty premium
- attractive people earn more, studies show, unfairly
- shifting standard
- today's ugly was yesterday's ideal, ask any portrait
- useful ugly
- anglerfish horrifying face lures dinner efficiently