A Question of Opinion
Ok, just cos i need to know some idea of general consenus, a moment of your time please..
Is Mariah Carey, in the colloquial usage of the word, “FIT”??? cos my answer is a resounding NO. And yet people constantly disagree with me… plz girls and boys, take a second to answer this question… Mariah Carey, hot or not? I refuse to post a pic on my blog so google-image if you don’t know or can’t remember what she looks like. x
Noope. She looks like she sounds – like a backing singer. Unremarkable. (But then I find individuality attractive and she looks like she’s been styled into a conventional ideal of beauty that does nothing for me.)
YES!!! precisely. haha, matt you are genius in a way x
yell yeah….long time
“In a way”?
I can see how aesthetically she had all the bits in the right places to be attractive, but she just looks a bit too fake and plastic to be truly beautiful (or ‘fit’ if I must demean myself to use that phrase!).
And she’s just a bit too odd…
I think she’d be beautiful if she didn’t dye her hair blonde (she looked better as a brunette), wore less make-up and more clothes…I think all women are beautiful, but turning yourself into a Barbie-doll detracts from your natural appeal.
I agree with everyone else’s comments, she’s a bit too artificial and doesn’t really wear enough. And then her accent! So grating!
She is hot in an untypical way for a singer due to a fuller figure. She would also be a lot hotter if she did not make records that we had to endure though if her fuller figure puts girls of anorexia then it can only be a good thing
great topic however. Is someone “fit”. Important, but wouldn’t get you far in the 24th century!!!!
Wil, I’m utterly confused by your punctuation there dude.
I pretty much get the gist of what you’re trying to say (I think)… that the subject of this blogpost and the question it poses is not of particular future importance? I’m sortof taking the “great topic” bit to be ironic also…not offended in the slightest btw, just using your response as a catalyst to justify my blogging!
Well no, it wouldn’t get you far in the 24th century, but luckily enough, we’re living in the 21st… and it’s yielded various, rather contradictory, opinions which i find quite important
we all know assessing such things as attractiveness are greatly subjective (though there is also definitely a shared understanding of what constitutes beauty) nonetheless, aside from getting varying responses, arguing either way – as predicted, what fascinates me more is the contradictory nature of the reasons people came to their conclusion on the issue.
on the one hand it seems Mariah is considered to be styled in a conventional mould (hair dyed blonde,modelled on a barbie-doll etc etc) of what is attractive, and on the other she is considered to be unconventional, untypical due to her supposedly “fuller figure”…
even the idea of what constitutes “fitting in” is thereby questioned. some disregard her conventional mouldings and see her as differently beautiful, for others this moulding is all there is to see…
a very pertinent contemporary social comment for the 21st century, doncha think? links back to my fitting out -> fitting in posts… and who knows, maybe it will have relevance 3centuries from now.
Peace out bruv x
haha…sure…it was just a star trek reference
lol… you and your star trek
xxx
Interesting perspective. I still don’t see the how singling an individual out and asking bluntly whether or not they are “fit” is, or can lead to, important conversation. That is, unless the conversation goes significantly “off” on a tangent. I find conversation on subjectivity very interesting so maybe this is what you were getting at.
However, I find it interesting how you seem to suggest that it is not objectionable to perpetuate the, somewhat base, topics of interest within a certain time frame. I mean to ask that just because people are so infatuated with aesthetic, read surface, beauty today whether we are to perpetuate such concerns. If this is the case you are quite right; the 24th century will be no different from our own.
As for the ‘differing’ responses:
“she looks like a backing singer”
“she’s just a bit too odd”
“I think she’d be beautiful if she didn’t die her hair blonde”
and my favourite…”I agree with everyone”
Damian’s comment on anorexia is the exception to this apparent rule, which is well observed and put accross.
But maybe this is all just because I think I love her…I think she is great fun…have you seen her interviewed recently? So cool and totally quick to self deprecate.
I was including your “yell yeah… long time”, and the guys i’ve talked about this with in passing who havn’t commented here but have said they find her attractive, in my assessment of differing opinions… so my sample wasn’t quite so skewed as it seems here – but you were right to highlight it’s apparent bias.
Slightly off-topic a second, cos you’re a pretty dapperly dressed guy yourself, do you actually like her sense of style? awkward clingy bodysuit dress things, unflattering to the maximum… i can’t help finding her often vulgarly dressed and thinking she’d be far more attractive if she displayed some modesty (she can look quite good when well-dressed and these images are when she’s wearing more rather than less)… but I guess I could say that for a lot of celebrities and picking out Mariah is something of an injustice, besides which a large numbers of blokes will disagree on my modest dress issue. Stereotype sigh on having stereotyped.
and no, I havn’t seen her interviewed recently… will try and seek something out next week, from what you say I might be forced to reconsider my opinions, she could redeem herself!… Perhaps.
Another thing, as you point out her self-deprecating nature, measure of attractiveness totally factors in things like charm etc. personality aspects rather than just aesthetics for sure… I think we’re probably all distorted on this issue by our judgement of her personality or public persona, whichever you believe it to be! x
Too manish for my taste. Looks a bit like Bruce Willis in his younger days.