Beauty according to who?
Beautiful power, beautiful violence and beautiful domination Beauty is cruel And sinister Self loathing Insecure And dehumanizing A complex and tortuous hierarchy
Content Warning: mentions of eugenics
Beauty according to who?
Beauty capital for a few.
Pretty privilege
Beauty capital
Power
It's beauty power
It's beauty violence
Violence in the name of beauty
Beauty is violent
Beauty is pain
Isn't that what they say.
And after beauty
Is there love?
Or rather unkindness
After beauty
Beautiful power, beautiful violence and beautiful domination
Beauty is cruel
And sinister
Self loathing
Insecure
And dehumanizing
A complex and tortuous hierarchy
That starts with pale white skin
And ends in Africans viewed as sin
It must be ungodly
To be ugly
And then the ungodly
Is done to the ugly
Justified by beauty
So beautiful
They didn't deserve that
They didn't but others do
Beauty says
Some deserve ugly and ugly things
Beauty needs more
Endlessly
Beauty should never be without
So much beauty
They should have a beautiful life
To match the beauty
No matter the cost
And beauty can hoard more beauty
More beauty more for that beauty
To protect beauty of course
More beauty more maintenance
To protect beauty of course
More beauty more resources
To protect beauty of course
More beauty more violence
To protect beauty of course
More beauty more power
To protect beauty of course
Beauty dictated
What's your beauty capital?
Know where your place is
Beauty to determine what your fate is
Beauty dictated
First by whatever faith is
Bridging the gap
Between creators and created
Sorry it's what the holy text stated
Ugly is sin
Human dignity in the bin.
That's beauty dictated
Next by numbers
Calculations, measurements
Features examined graded and rated
Scientific beauty
Educate yourself
On where your place is
Scientifically
The science of beauty
If it's a science
Let's start with biology
Maybe blend a little
What about good genes
They say it's in the stitching
What admixtures bring beauty
How do we measure
What do we calculate
Then how can we bring more beauty about
How about we measure facial harmony
The distance between your brow bone and upper lip
How do we increase those desirable traits
Those beautiful things
Reproduce beauty
How do we create a beautiful population
What's wrong with genetic hygiene?
Cleanliness is next to godliness
And beauty is godlike
Let's get closer to god
Marry science and cleanliness
Get some godly genes to match with more godly genes.
Call it eugenics.
Books which have helped me contend with "Beauty":
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Belly of the Beast The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness By Da’Shaun L. Harrison
The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison
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