Theory Blackpill Quotes - Tao Te Ching

[SandNiggerKANG]

“Nature is unkind:
It treats the creation like sacrificial straw-dogs.
The Sage is unkind:
He treats the people like sacrificial straw-dogs.”
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 5

This basically says that nature is brutal as fuck and doesn’t care about us. If we’re not fit (from a biological perspective) and are full of abnormalities and diseases, life will be brutal on us and on the later generations (sub-5s won’t be able to fuck and have children, sub-5 foids on the other hand they’re the culprit).

Dysgenic traits are on the rise because of the comfort of our society that prevents the unfit from dying out under harsh conditions.

The sage is ruthless because nature is ruthless and he’s just a reflection of nature. That means he will literally do anything just to get by. It’s justified because inaction would mean that nature would then fuck him over in other ways. He can only adapt to nature like water adapting to the shape of its container. And nature forces people to be predators and preys.

So the sage doesn’t limit himself and cuck himself with useless rules and beliefs that limit his potential. BTFO moral fags. When the sage adapts to nature and TRUTH, he personally becomes more powerful. When you’re playing the fucked up game, you need to follow the fucked up rules or you will perish.

Killing, lying and stealing etc. it’s all just a way to get by in a world that forces you to do that kind of shit under fucked up circumstances. It’s not your fault. Following most of Objective morality is like cucking yourself. But some objective rules should be followed. Such as not being a fuckin pedo.

The game forces you to be sinful. Sin, religion and morals is cope for the most part. If the game forces you to be sinful, it’s not your fault. Your actions have justification.

Right now, society is basically hiding from nature with all this distracting transhumanism BS and technology.

“Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.”
- Tao Te Ching verse 78

This basically says that foids have the ultimate power in society. They’re seen as soft and beautiful. They can use this to manipulate and bypass the “hard”. That’s basically men. Foids have total control over men and what men do. Pussy controls everything. Pussy is the ultimate motivator behind anything a man does whether directly or indirectly. If you want to control a society, you need to control its women. (Jews)

Jews have made society go into a disharmonious state and this is why everything in the world is fucking up and it’ll only get worse in the future. Nature will hit back and there will be crises
The world has strayed from the watercourse way and its (((their))) fault. Nature must establish its order again and things will go back to normal.

Based chink nigga Lao tsu

 

[Seahorsecel]

@Fat Link

Pin-worthy thread?

 

[FinnCel]

Honestly the whole book is a good read and not even very long

 

[Morphine]

@Fat Link

Pin-worthy thread?

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

Honestly the whole book is a good read and not even very long

So many translations too I think my favourite is that one by the Scottish nigga James legge

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

@Fat Link

Pin-worthy thread?

Too low effort imo I could’ve added more detail

 

[Esoteric7]

you said a whole bunch of nothing. Although it's impressive how many paragraphs you managed to stretch it out to

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

you said a whole bunch of nothing. Although it's impressive how many paragraphs you managed to stretch it out to

ThinkingApeMaxxing

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

The sage is ruthless because nature is ruthless and he’s just a reflection of nature. That means he will literally do anything just to get by. It’s justified because inaction would mean that nature would then fuck him over in other ways. He can only adapt to nature like water adapting to the shape of its container. And nature forces people to be predators and preys.

So the sage doesn’t limit himself and cuck himself with useless rules and beliefs that limit his potential. BTFO moral fags. When the sage adapts to nature and TRUTH, he personally becomes more powerful. When you’re playing the fucked up game, you need to follow the fucked up rules or you will perish.

Killing, lying and stealing etc. it’s all just a way to get by in a world that forces you to do that kind of shit under fucked up circumstances. It’s not your fault. Following most of Objective morality is like cucking yourself. But some objective rules should be followed. Such as not being a fuckin pedo.

The game forces you to be sinful. Sin, religion and morals is cope for the most part. If the game forces you to be sinful, it’s not your fault. Your actions have justification.

Right now, society is basically hiding from nature with all this distracting transhumanism BS and technology.

I’ve read this like 3 times and holy shit I feel retarded Should’ve kept it out this went off topic. Wish I could edit again. Wanted to specify that the fucked up rules are actually left unsaid and are invisible you have to figure them out for yourself through harsh life experiences.

 

[Audley Porter]

Overcoming nature is impossible, an action to do so merely precipitates the natural order of adaptation and mutation. Nature overcomes itself every moment, one wave crashing down raises another.

ThinkingApeMaxxing

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

Overcoming nature is impossible, an action to do so merely precipitates the natural order of adaptation and mutation. Nature overcomes itself every moment, one wave crashing down raises another.

True that. Lao tsu perfectly described oofy doofys and betas with the term “sacrificial straw dogs” jfl. Cause that’s what we are to foids. Even throughout nature you can see similar. Femoid spiders eating alive males after mating with them. Nature is truth and truth is brutal hence the blackpill. Once they suck them dry of all their value they’re off to be disposed.

 

[Audley Porter]

True that. Lao tsu perfectly described oofy doofys and betas with the term “sacrificial straw dogs” jfl.

I love your spin on Lao-tsu's figurative, equivocal aphorisms.

Women are like water and take the shape of their surroundings.

Doofuses and weaklings are sacrifical dogs bereft of honor and solid resolve.

Nature is the ruthless adversary of her children, and moral values erected to circumvent her punishment are futile wiles birthed from desperation.

Cause that’s what we are to foids. Even throughout nature you can see similar. Femoid spiders eating alive males after mating with them. Nature is truth and truth is brutal hence the blackpill. Once they suck them dry of all their value they’re off to be disposed.

Nature and fate are the coinciding forces that govern the world, and they are precursors to causality and Providence.

Just a question, do you think women are like leeches? There are some women whose sexual preference is solely predicated on aesthetics, we see this in birds often enough. For most mammals, a shiny fur-coat is attractive because it indicates superior genes.

 

[Chang.Beijing]

“Nature is unkind:
It treats the creation like sacrificial straw-dogs.
The Sage is unkind:
He treats the people like sacrificial straw-dogs.”
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 5

This basically says that nature is brutal as fuck and doesn’t care about us. If we’re not fit (from a biological perspective) and are full of abnormalities and diseases, life will be brutal on us and on the later generations (sub-5s won’t be able to fuck and have children, sub-5 foids on the other hand they’re the culprit).

Dysgenic traits are on the rise because of the comfort of our society that prevents the unfit from dying out under harsh conditions.

View attachment 1177442

The sage is ruthless because nature is ruthless and he’s just a reflection of nature. That means he will literally do anything just to get by. It’s justified because inaction would mean that nature would then fuck him over in other ways. He can only adapt to nature like water adapting to the shape of its container. And nature forces people to be predators and preys.

So the sage doesn’t limit himself and cuck himself with useless rules and beliefs that limit his potential. BTFO moral fags. When the sage adapts to nature and TRUTH, he personally becomes more powerful. When you’re playing the fucked up game, you need to follow the fucked up rules or you will perish.

Killing, lying and stealing etc. it’s all just a way to get by in a world that forces you to do that kind of shit under fucked up circumstances. It’s not your fault. Following most of Objective morality is like cucking yourself. But some objective rules should be followed. Such as not being a fuckin pedo.

The game forces you to be sinful. Sin, religion and morals is cope for the most part. If the game forces you to be sinful, it’s not your fault. Your actions have justification.

Right now, society is basically hiding from nature with all this distracting transhumanism BS and technology.

“Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.”
- Tao Te Ching verse 78

This basically says that foids have the ultimate power in society. They’re seen as soft and beautiful. They can use this to manipulate and bypass the “hard”. That’s basically men. Foids have total control over men and what men do. Pussy controls everything. Pussy is the ultimate motivator behind anything a man does whether directly or indirectly. If you want to control a society, you need to control its women. (Jews)

Jews have made society go into a disharmonious state and this is why everything in the world is fucking up and it’ll only get worse in the future. Nature will hit back and there will be crises
The world has strayed from the watercourse way and its (((their))) fault. Nature must establish its order again and things will go back to normal.

Based chink nigga Lao tsu
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Nature hates us chinks. Cursed is the yellow inbreeding cult, blessed are the meeks, dragos, and lachowskis

 

[cokeboy]

I think you're misinterpreting a spiritual-mystical work and applying to the mundane worldly stuff

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

I think you're misinterpreting a spiritual-mystical work and applying to the mundane worldly stuff

As abovE so below

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

do you think women are like leeches?

Pretty much yeah. It’s their nature lol. No matter what they do they will always end up acting in their nature. Men are biologically programmed to be creators, problem solvers and providers.

Women are biologically programmed to be absorbers aka leeches. That’s why foids are usually less inventive and creative. Sure, you have art hoes but how many art hoes have created something original and not just replica drawings? Most foids just can’t be original.

They’re just a product of the culture and environment around them they’ll happily go along with it. Hence why they’re like water taking the shape of their containers. But what about feminism and foid empowerment? Implanted thoughts and ideas by jews. Foids themselves never actually came up with it. They just went along with it

 

[kay']

Based chink nigga Lao tsu

 

[anotherbitesthedust]

“Nature is unkind:
It treats the creation like sacrificial straw-dogs.
The Sage is unkind:
He treats the people like sacrificial straw-dogs.”
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 5

This basically says that nature is brutal as fuck and doesn’t care about us. If we’re not fit (from a biological perspective) and are full of abnormalities and diseases, life will be brutal on us and on the later generations (sub-5s won’t be able to fuck and have children, sub-5 foids on the other hand they’re the culprit).

Dysgenic traits are on the rise because of the comfort of our society that prevents the unfit from dying out under harsh conditions.

View attachment 1177442

The sage is ruthless because nature is ruthless and he’s just a reflection of nature. That means he will literally do anything just to get by. It’s justified because inaction would mean that nature would then fuck him over in other ways. He can only adapt to nature like water adapting to the shape of its container. And nature forces people to be predators and preys.

So the sage doesn’t limit himself and cuck himself with useless rules and beliefs that limit his potential. BTFO moral fags. When the sage adapts to nature and TRUTH, he personally becomes more powerful. When you’re playing the fucked up game, you need to follow the fucked up rules or you will perish.

Killing, lying and stealing etc. it’s all just a way to get by in a world that forces you to do that kind of shit under fucked up circumstances. It’s not your fault. Following most of Objective morality is like cucking yourself. But some objective rules should be followed. Such as not being a fuckin pedo.

The game forces you to be sinful. Sin, religion and morals is cope for the most part. If the game forces you to be sinful, it’s not your fault. Your actions have justification.

Right now, society is basically hiding from nature with all this distracting transhumanism BS and technology.

“Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.”
- Tao Te Ching verse 78

This basically says that foids have the ultimate power in society. They’re seen as soft and beautiful. They can use this to manipulate and bypass the “hard”. That’s basically men. Foids have total control over men and what men do. Pussy controls everything. Pussy is the ultimate motivator behind anything a man does whether directly or indirectly. If you want to control a society, you need to control its women. (Jews)

Jews have made society go into a disharmonious state and this is why everything in the world is fucking up and it’ll only get worse in the future. Nature will hit back and there will be crises
The world has strayed from the watercourse way and its (((their))) fault. Nature must establish its order again and things will go back to normal.

Based chink nigga Lao tsu
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Based chigga

 

[Loner94]

Based thread

 

[Copexodius Maximus]

They have a shitty definition of sage if they really do that jfl

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

They have a shitty definition of sage if they really do that jfl

The image of sages being moral is complete cope lol. Zen teachers used to beat the fuck out of their students. Chink sages are wild

 

[Copexodius Maximus]

The image of sages being moral is complete cope lol. Zen teachers used to beat the fuck out of their students. Chink sages are wild

Zen is based on Buddhism I thought, not Taoism.

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

Zen is based on Buddhism I thought, not Taoism.

Zen is like if Taoism and Buddhism had a child

 

[Copexodius Maximus]

Zen is like if Taoism and Buddhism had a child

Makes sense. Cause those things don’t sound very Buddhist jfl.

 

[qbicus]

>Right now, society is basically hiding from nature with all this distracting transhumanism BS and technology.

people go the wrong way with transhumanism, they use it to fulfill hedonism than what is necessary. Rather than increase intelligence, we make goon machines and goyslop, we think as a society it is more ethical to leave things as is rather than make sacrifices necessary to reach a collective potential.

>“Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.”
- Tao Te Ching verse 78

This basically says that foids have the ultimate power in society. They’re seen as soft and beautiful. They can use this to manipulate and bypass the “hard”. That’s basically men. Foids have total control over men and what men do. Pussy controls everything. Pussy is the ultimate motivator behind anything a man does whether directly or indirectly. If you want to control a society, you need to control its women. (Jews)
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that is why I support removing foids, technology replacing them and give us the feminine aspect, while having a male biology to break the cycle. Make men asexual so he doesn't need pussy.

to remove the Jew we can't just keep controlling them, we out Jew the Jew. That way no one manipulates anyone once they go extinct.

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

we out Jew

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

Under harsh conditions only the most genetically successful live on and pass their pro social genetics onwards whereas with the cumfort of our current society, sub-5 dysgenic foid freaks are allowed to reproduce without consequences and the fucked up genetics carry onto everything else like politics and the fucked up behaviour of people in general.

The rise of inkels, leftoids, soys and trannies is because of Higher mutational loads in genetics because of the CUMfort of our society that allowed sub5 foids to reproduce and survive

 

[NorthernWind]

Nature is not only unkind but outright cruel

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

Another note: By default, foids will take the path of least resistance. They’re like water. Water does that too.

 

[Flagellum_Dei]

This basically says that nature is brutal as fuck and doesn’t care about us. If we’re not fit (from a biological perspective) and are full of abnormalities and diseases, life will be brutal on us and on the later generations (sub-5s won’t be able to fuck and have children, sub-5 foids on the other hand they’re the culprit).

I have to disagree, nature don't fucking care what foids wants, at least not in terms of humans. Typical sub5 fatcel is more fit in the biological way than a prettyboy since he can crush his skull with left hand. Most chads would be killed very quickly in nature by inkwells that would outnumber them, nature don't give a fuck about few millimeters of bone in your jaw.

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

I have to disagree, nature don't fucking care what foids wants, at least not in terms of humans. Typical sub5 fatcel is more fit in the biological way than a prettyboy since he can crush his skull with left hand. Most chads would be killed very quickly in nature by inkwells that would outnumber them, nature don't give a fuck about few millimeters of bone in your jaw.

All sub5s are capable of survival the thing is right when they’ve formed their tribes, women will throw themselves at the most attractive. Sub5s are basically used as pawns. They’ll get pity sex and reward sex with foids but in the eyes of foids they aren’t real men. On the primal level, only chads turn on foids (and animals).

Anybody is capable of killing someone these days. Lots of weapons. Chad and foids have the advantage because naturally they have orbiters around them they’re on the top of the social hierarchy. People would jump in to protect them and would fuck up the sub5.

They have the advantage of beauty and people are naturally attracted to that and hold it in high esteem. So they would protect that. Like how people love cute animals and would do anything to protect them.

So I’d say chads and genetically gifted people are selected by nature and are protected against the bullshit sub5s face. They are favoured by nature.

Foids are the selectors and they have no reason to choose a sub5 unless it’s for status and money.

 

[Flagellum_Dei]

All sub5s are capable of survival the thing is right when they’ve formed their tribes, women will throw themselves at the most attractive. Sub5s are basically used as pawns. They’ll get pity sex and reward sex with foids but in the eyes of foids they aren’t real men. On the primal level, only chads turn on foids (and animals).

Anybody is capable of killing someone these days. Lots of weapons. Chad and foids have the advantage because naturally they have orbiters around them they’re on the top of the social hierarchy. People would jump in to protect them and would fuck up the sub5.

They have the advantage of beauty and people are naturally attracted to that and hold it in high esteem. So they would protect that. Like how people love cute animals and would do anything to protect them.

So I’d say chads and genetically gifted people are selected by nature and are protected against the bullshit sub5s face. They are favoured by nature.

Foids are the selectors and they have no reason to choose a sub5 unless it’s for status and money.

There was a reason for no foid protecting laws in pre-westernization non-European societies, sub5s who were valuable for the community were given more/better foids than chads, who were useless for the group. Foid worship started with western 'humanist' bullshit. Even Greeks, who were chad worshiping cvcks had more social respect to valuable sub5s (philosophers, commanders, writers) than to some chad. Every pre-humanist culture knew, that foids shall not be given any form of choice.

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

There was a reason for no foid protecting laws in pre-westernization non-European societies, sub5s who were valuable for the community were given more/better foids than chads, who were useless for the group. Foid worship started with western 'humanist' bullshit. Even Greeks, who were chad worshiping cvcks had more social respect to valuable sub5s (philosophers, commanders, writers) than to some chad. Every pre-humanist culture knew, that foids shall not be given any form of choice.

Based. Sub5s deserve the respect and status, we basically carried society while everyone else was lazy and too busy fucking

 

[BasedAdam]

Sub 5 women should be killed and we are gonna die naturally and then we can insure, this phenomenon never happens again

 

[baja jagodinac]

Like tao ching chong said-
"i dont fuck with them incers straw-dogsu"

 

[Emba]

you said a whole bunch of nothing. Although it's impressive how many paragraphs you managed to stretch it out to

That's the beauty of it...

It's also a divination technique... Easy money for tossing the straws - or coins..

 

[Esoteric7]

That's the beauty of it...

It's also a divination technique... Easy money for tossing the straws - or coins..

Andrédatsun

 

[Emba]

Andrédatsun

I once tryed to blackmail someone out of a 280z

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

Like tao ching chong said-
"i dont fuck with them incers straw-dogsu"

Chinks are based for eating dogs. No more dogpill

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

Sub 5 women should be killed and we are gonna die naturally and then we can insure, this phenomenon never happens again

the foids who live the shittiest lifestyles and have the worst genetics they have nerve to still fuck and have children. The children end up dysfunctional because they’re a reflection of how shitty the parents are

 

[yeetbender.koala]

“Nature is unkind:
It treats the creation like sacrificial straw-dogs.
The Sage is unkind:
He treats the people like sacrificial straw-dogs.”
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 5

This basically says that nature is brutal as fuck and doesn’t care about us. If we’re not fit (from a biological perspective) and are full of abnormalities and diseases, life will be brutal on us and on the later generations (sub-5s won’t be able to fuck and have children, sub-5 foids on the other hand they’re the culprit).

Dysgenic traits are on the rise because of the comfort of our society that prevents the unfit from dying out under harsh conditions.

View attachment 1177442

The sage is ruthless because nature is ruthless and he’s just a reflection of nature. That means he will literally do anything just to get by. It’s justified because inaction would mean that nature would then fuck him over in other ways. He can only adapt to nature like water adapting to the shape of its container. And nature forces people to be predators and preys.

So the sage doesn’t limit himself and cuck himself with useless rules and beliefs that limit his potential. BTFO moral fags. When the sage adapts to nature and TRUTH, he personally becomes more powerful. When you’re playing the fucked up game, you need to follow the fucked up rules or you will perish.

Killing, lying and stealing etc. it’s all just a way to get by in a world that forces you to do that kind of shit under fucked up circumstances. It’s not your fault. Following most of Objective morality is like cucking yourself. But some objective rules should be followed. Such as not being a fuckin pedo.

The game forces you to be sinful. Sin, religion and morals is cope for the most part. If the game forces you to be sinful, it’s not your fault. Your actions have justification.

Right now, society is basically hiding from nature with all this distracting transhumanism BS and technology.

“Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.”
- Tao Te Ching verse 78

This basically says that foids have the ultimate power in society. They’re seen as soft and beautiful. They can use this to manipulate and bypass the “hard”. That’s basically men. Foids have total control over men and what men do. Pussy controls everything. Pussy is the ultimate motivator behind anything a man does whether directly or indirectly. If you want to control a society, you need to control its women. (Jews)

Jews have made society go into a disharmonious state and this is why everything in the world is fucking up and it’ll only get worse in the future. Nature will hit back and there will be crises
The world has strayed from the watercourse way and its (((their))) fault. Nature must establish its order again and things will go back to normal.

Based chink nigga Lao tsu
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kill yourself nigger

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

kill yourself nigger

Here are your tampons GrAY lass. You sound like you’re on your period

 

[baja jagodinac]

Chinks are based for eating dogs. No more dogpill

Not anymore
West got them too
I saw this chink thats 4.11 wanting a 6 foot tall man on tiktok

 

[cinderogre]

high iq thread

 

[SandNiggerKANG]

high iq thread

Will have another thread coming up

 

[scihub]

Dysgenic traits are on the rise because of the comfort of our society that prevents the unfit from dying out under harsh conditions.

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The sage is ruthless because nature is ruthless

I really like this diagram, it perfectly sums up historical cycle of empires

 

[chainmail]

I have to disagree, nature don't fucking care what foids wants, at least not in terms of humans. Typical sub5 fatcel is more fit in the biological way than a prettyboy since he can crush his skull with left hand. Most chads would be killed very quickly in nature by inkwells that would outnumber them, nature don't give a fuck about few millimeters of bone in your jaw.

the typical prettyboy isnt chad nk, thier just, just tall, fullfy hair, white, mtn face

muscular chads like henry cavil, david laid have far more appeal and would destroy and inkwell with thier Superior physical abilities

 

[Aquiline]

Nature is the ruthless adversary of her children, and moral values erected to circumvent her punishment are futile wiles birthed from desperation.

Nature and fate are the coinciding forces that govern the world, and they are precursors to causality and Providence.

Bone-chilling and quote-worthy statements. In just two sentences, you have managed to describe the material world and simultaneously raise a mirror to any and all normie delusions. My salutations to you - bravo!

 

[Aquiline]

people go the wrong way with transhumanism, they use it to fulfill hedonism than what is necessary. Rather than increase intelligence, we make goon machines and goyslop, we think as a society it is more ethical to leave things as is rather than make sacrifices necessary to reach a collective potential.

that is why I support removing foids, technology replacing them and give us the feminine aspect, while having a male biology to break the cycle. Make men asexual so he doesn't need pussy.

to remove the Jew we can't just keep controlling them, we out Jew the Jew. That way no one manipulates anyone once they go extinct.

You and I, my friend, agree on everything. Both points you state are true: transhumanism must be used to unshackle our race from the limitations imposed by nature and our crude genetic code, and something definitely has to be done about the foid situation. Perhaps creating a new race of foids with a more male neurology/biology but a feminine aspect?

 

[qbicus]

You and I, my friend, agree on everything. Both points you state are true: transhumanism must be used to unshackle our race from the limitations imposed by nature and our crude genetic code, and something definitely has to be done about the foid situation. Perhaps creating a new race of foids with a more male neurology/biology but a feminine aspect?

I just don't think asexuality is enough because the man will still over infatuate gentle and delicate/youthful features, or flowing smoothness. These characteristic are still appreciated in artists who are desensitized to the human anatomy. Or maybe I've been looking at it wrong, beauty isn't restricted to women. Just as much as rough features isn't restricted to men. But there is a reason why opposites attract and it isn't just limited to sexual nature. but also psychological nature. Ancient arts have portrayed this idea as well. Personally I find it more freeing to utilize the bodies mobility than physical strength. There is something freeing about it I just can't put my finger on it.