The most beautiful woman in 19th century Mexico, no matter what Jordan Peterson thinks.

Yes, Beauty is socially Constructed

In a New York Post article, Jordan Peterson ws quoted as saying that Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Yumi Nu was on the cover only because of “the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned”. Of course these preferences are learned. To prove this, all you have to do is look at the images of the great beauties of the past, for example the paintings of Rembrandt and Rubens. Ms. Nu would have been a perfect model of beauty for the artists of that time. This idea that beautiful women must have bodies like twelve year old boys and tits like cantaloupes is very new. The fact that Peterson keeps claiming that his prejudices are supported by history, and doesn’t even know this historical fact, is one more example of his cluelessness. That’s pretty much the definition of privileged cluelessness: The belief that my feelings about the world are always perceptions of true reality.

For every woman, there is a place somewhere, either possible or actual, where she is the most beautiful woman in the world. Angela Peralta de Castera, the “Mexican Nightingale” was considered to be the most beautiful woman in all of Mexico in the 19th century. Men fought duels over her. When she came into a new city, all the young men would unhitch the horses from her carriage so they could personally pull her into town. Ms. Peralta was fortunate enough to have been born in the right place at the right time. If Hedy Lamarr or Scarlet Johansson had been her contemporaries, they would have been dismissed as plain Janes because they did not look like Ms. Peralta. And guess what, Jordan Peterson: If you and I had grown up in 19th century Mexico, we would have felt the same way.