It's often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We're all different individuals and so we can all look at something and come away with different thoughts about it. But is that really true?

A fat girl with crooked teeth, patchy skin and shit hair would be immediately labelled as ugly (or not beautiful) by the vast majority of people who gaze upon her. This would suggest that some characteristics that are more beautiful than others. We have standards of beauty. Are people who call the fat girl beautiful simply wrong?

Something either is, or it isn't (truth exists). 1+1=2 and anybody who argues that it equals 5 is plain wrong. Is the same true with judgements of beauty?

Phrased differently, is a 10/10 always a 10/10, regardless of who does the judging? If someone says the 10 is a 3, are they just plain wrong?

I'll offer my opinion after there's been some discussion on this. What are your thoughts? Don't think you have to restrict your response to solely talking about beauty in people - You can talk about beauty in all spheres.

inb4 beauty standards are socially/culturally/evolutionarily constructed