[blindm]

> Our world is defined by it, and yet we struggle to ever define it

> German psychologist Gustav Fechner provided evidence that people prefer rectangles with sides in proportion to the golden ratio (if you’re curious, that ratio is about 1.6:1)

Glad it mentioned the Golden Ratio and beauty seemingly being in the 'eye of the beholder' as mentioned here:

> Despite his experiments with the golden ratio, Fechner continued to believe that beauty was, to a large degree, in the brain of the beholder.

IMHO Beauty can be subjective, but there are entire industries built on the fact that some beauty is unquestionable, like in the modeling/fashion industry.

[analyst74]

In modeling, acting, or even dating, beauty have always been a mix of objective features (like things signifying good health) and subjective features (features conferring to status, like being white).

There are even examples of objective feature colliding with subjective feature, resulting in different standard of being fit in different regions.

[kevbin]

> …entire industries built on the fact that some beauty is unquestionable, like in the modelling [sic] industry

There are unquestionably beautiful models. But the modeling industry is as transactional as any other. The industry confers the status of beautiful on many people and things that are in no way beautiful.