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[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

This post feels like a personal attack against ElectroBOOM.

[–] jordanlund 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aphrodite is mythological, Helen of Troy is ambiguous like King Arthur or Robin Hood. Likely mythical.

As a goddess, Aphrodite can appear as she wants, and often changes how she looks.

Helen, while human, is always described as "white armed" or "fair haired", no mention of a unibrow.

https://www.thoughtco.com/helen-of-troy-iliad-of-homer-118918

If you want an example of a woman considered to be attractive with a unibrow, you really don't have to look any further than Frida Kahlo.

She had multiple lovers in her lifetime, men and women, and her self portraits often depict her with an exaggerated unibrow and mustache.

Her photographs don't necessarily agree, but obviously she considered it a unibrow if she put it in a self portrait.

One of 55 self portraits, 1940:

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Photograph, 1940:

[–] dustyData 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think a lot of Frida's attractiveness was due to her strong character, personality and ideological thoughts. These have an influence on what and how we consider certain features attractive or not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Yeah this is definitely a case of the fame and personality making a very average to mildly unattractive woman (strictly from a physical point of view) appear much more desirable.

[–] Shou 10 points 22 hours ago

That portrait goes hard.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know they do in Middle Eastern art. Drawing attractive people with a unibrow is to the Middle East what freckles are to Europeans. Without a doubt, Helen of Troy is in some Middle Eastern painting sporting a unibrow and riding an eopie.

[–] cheese_greater 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

It always makes me think of that brawny German or Slavic woman in Dodgeball smiling haha

Edit: Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky

[–] WindyRebel 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

This character always cracks me up because Missi Pyle (the actress) is decently good looking.

[–] cheese_greater 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Same as the McPoyle sister

[–] WindyRebel 2 points 15 hours ago

Yes! Another good example.