Twelve videos that discuss distortions of female beauty.  In a mediated world, ideas of beauty are constructed and commodified.  But is something more involved?

Can our notions of beauty be genetic, or whims of biology?  Can our perceptions of beauty be directly tied to ovulation?  Dr. Martie Haselton from UCLA thinks so.  She compared photos of women before and after menstruation cycles and now believes that female notions of beauty can be linked to periods of fertility.  But is this “well beyond random chance?” Is it chemical, maybe?  Is this indeed “statistically significant” and a “subtle but systematic effect?"  Again, maybe.  But is there more at work here?

The key to this research, however, lies in the central question asked: “In which photo is the woman trying to look attractive.”  …..TRYING to look attractive.  Let’s all think about that today… at the mall.  It's so much easier being unfashionably..... male.