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To think Anok Yai is one of the most beautiful women on earth?

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MarzipanGenius · 07/05/2024 13:21

I don’t generally care about the Met Gala, but my jaw dropped when I saw this photo.

Can you imagine walking around looking like this?!

To think Anok Yai is one of the most beautiful women on earth?
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MarzipanGenius · 08/05/2024 20:17

LawlorsNaa · 08/05/2024 19:42

At the best attractive to some, not beautiful to most people.

You’re obviously entitled to your individual opinion, but the vote is currently 57% YANBU, so it would appear she is beautiful to most people.

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eise · 08/05/2024 20:21

Liliberated · 07/05/2024 15:42

No definitely not. Face too narrow for me. When I saw Meghan Markle in suits I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen until I saw Zendaya in The Greatest Showman.

I love them all. I didn't know about Anok, she is stunning too!
I also love Priyanka Chopra - she's up there in the top 10 for me!

MarzipanGenius · 08/05/2024 20:29

If I’d made a thread about how gorgeous I thought Anya Taylor Joy was, or someone similar (and white), I suspect this would have been a super short thread. A few people would have agreed, some would have disagreed, most would have ignored it, the end.

However, apparently if you make a lighthearted thread celebrating the beauty of an unambiguously Black, dark skinned supermodel, and a certain element on here is like ‘nope, we cannot have this’. 🤣

Anyway, I’m sure Anok will be fine, either way.

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tridento · 08/05/2024 20:32

@MarzipanGenius
There was nothing in either my question or your initial response about ‘for now’ or ‘at the minute’. So, that’s a lie
It's not ok calling people liars. For what it's worth I am the poster who pointed out that I read the response as meaning 'at the moment'. So it's not unreasonable to think the poster you keep attacking also meant it that way. .

eise · 08/05/2024 20:42

I don't know but she is absolutely stunning to me. I think it's hard picking the MOST beautiful woman. So many people have so many different beautiful features. I also think Kelly Rowland is a real beauty! If I looked like that woman - there'd be trouble!

Also these ladies when younger Angelina Jolie, Vanessa Williams and Kenya Moore - they were so beautiful. Kenya still looks gorgeous!

MarzipanGenius · 08/05/2024 20:42

tridento · 08/05/2024 20:32

@MarzipanGenius
There was nothing in either my question or your initial response about ‘for now’ or ‘at the minute’. So, that’s a lie
It's not ok calling people liars. For what it's worth I am the poster who pointed out that I read the response as meaning 'at the moment'. So it's not unreasonable to think the poster you keep attacking also meant it that way. .

If she’s going to say I now believe she did that deliberately because she wouldn't have been able to try and castigate me if there was context given/further information then I am comfortable saying she’s lying.

It’s not ok to claim that people have ‘deliberately set you up to castigate you’ when it’s simply untrue. It was a lie and I will identify it as such.

And I do not ‘keep attacking’ her. She keeps posting and accusing me (and others) of aggressing her. If anyone is being attacked, it’s us. If she continues to post on my thread, I will continue to respond.

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Willyoujustbequiet · 08/05/2024 20:51

tridento · 08/05/2024 20:32

@MarzipanGenius
There was nothing in either my question or your initial response about ‘for now’ or ‘at the minute’. So, that’s a lie
It's not ok calling people liars. For what it's worth I am the poster who pointed out that I read the response as meaning 'at the moment'. So it's not unreasonable to think the poster you keep attacking also meant it that way. .

Thank you.

Yes you're right and I've also been at pains to stress its only currently in all my posts.

Not sure what else I could have possibly done. I can't help it if I don't find lots of people attractive.

Shameful really.

Kendodd · 08/05/2024 20:52

MarzipanGenius · 07/05/2024 17:33

In case anyone’s wondering what she looks like with no/minimal make up, here’s a pic to save you Googling.

Still stunningly beautiful, imo (and the opinions of the multiple modelling agents that talent spotted her at uni and the world leading designers for whom she’s opened shows - this is not a niche view 🤣).

I think she looks much better there, but I always think women look better without make-up. I Googled her, I hope she does go on to become a doctor.

Kendodd · 08/05/2024 21:01

How the fuck have posters managed to get into a fight, with with posts deleted, on a thread like this???

LawlorsNaa · 08/05/2024 22:04

MarzipanGenius · 08/05/2024 20:17

You’re obviously entitled to your individual opinion, but the vote is currently 57% YANBU, so it would appear she is beautiful to most people.

She's not beautiful. Bella Hahid is apparently the most beautiful woman in the world, she most certainly is not. Models nowadays are rarely beautiful. Different looking, attractive, striking possibly but not beautiful. Beautiful women are not harsh and masculine looking, they have softer features.

MarzipanGenius · 08/05/2024 22:30

LawlorsNaa · 08/05/2024 22:04

She's not beautiful. Bella Hahid is apparently the most beautiful woman in the world, she most certainly is not. Models nowadays are rarely beautiful. Different looking, attractive, striking possibly but not beautiful. Beautiful women are not harsh and masculine looking, they have softer features.

Again, in your opinion. Quite a lot of us clearly disagree.

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Willyoujustbequiet · 08/05/2024 22:33

Kendodd · 08/05/2024 21:01

How the fuck have posters managed to get into a fight, with with posts deleted, on a thread like this???

That's what happens when you falsely accuse people of racism. Play stupid games win stupid prizes?

Cherry8809 · 08/05/2024 22:33

She’s visually striking, but not necessarily what I would call beautiful.

If I was pushed to name a celebrity that I felt fit that term better in my mind, I’d probably say Lily Aldridge or Gal Gadot. There’s something about their features that I find aesthetically pleasing, and it’s nothing to do with skin colour.

Thankfully, “beauty” is entirely subjective - we don’t all have to find the same thing appealing.

Chirawehaha · 08/05/2024 22:34

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Willyoujustbequiet · 08/05/2024 22:48

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It really is abhorrent to falsely accuse someone of racism, let alone a person of colour.

Your post was deleted. When you're in a hole stop digging.

FuckTheClubUp · 08/05/2024 22:53

Why would you set my good sis up like this?😂

FuckTheClubUp · 08/05/2024 22:56

However, apparently if you make a lighthearted thread celebrating the beauty of an unambiguously Black, dark skinned supermodel, and a certain element on here is like ‘nope, we cannot have this’. 🤣

Oh of course. That’s colorism for you

MarzipanGenius · 08/05/2024 22:59

FuckTheClubUp · 08/05/2024 22:53

Why would you set my good sis up like this?😂

I’m crying! 🤣🤣🤣

I don’t know what I was thinking.

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AstonUniversityPotholeDepartment · 09/05/2024 03:22

Beauty is incredibly subjective, as proven by all the celebrity crush threads about male actors that have made me go ShockConfusedHmm. In fact, in my opinion, my friends are all with rather unattractive men. Obviously, my friends disagree with my assessment of their partners.

But crikey, I'd love to be to be the kind of 'not beautiful' that Yai is. Grin Mind you, I'd probably get nothing done, because I'd spend the rest of my life gazing adoringly at my own reflection like Narcissus. Maybe it's for the best.

FuckTheClubUp · 09/05/2024 08:56

MarzipanGenius · 08/05/2024 22:59

I’m crying! 🤣🤣🤣

I don’t know what I was thinking.

😂😆

MsLuxLisbon · 09/05/2024 15:50

tridento · 08/05/2024 18:14

@MarzipanGenius

If the only people you can conceive of as spectacularly beautiful are three white women, your view of beauty is narrow and entirely white. This is a factual statement. Nothing ridiculous about it.

You being mixed race has absolutely no impact on this.

ETA: you can be as offended as you like, still a factual statement.
I think with a sum of 3 women this impossible to draw a conclusion about someone's view of beauty being solely white.
At this moment these 3 women are the only ones the poster can think of that mesmerise him. At another time it maybe different people. Had they listed 20 women who were all white I would possibly agree with you but 3 is too small a sample size to draw any conclusions
In any case Kendell Jenner is half Armenian. Whilst this is obviously not black, it's not white in the Margot Robbie sense.
For what it's worth I am half East Asian.

Kendall is not half Armenian.

Oblomov24 · 17/02/2025 08:41

I do. She is stunning. Facially, her legs, her figure. That Swarovski was made for her. The most beautiful thing. She's lovely too!

KimberleyClark · 17/02/2025 08:54

Don’t think anyone has ever been more exquisite than Hedy Lamarr. A brilliant mind too,she helped invent wifi.

To think Anok Yai is one of the most beautiful women on earth?
CantBelieveNaive · 24/02/2025 21:50

She is absolutely beautiful that is true.
You know she's had a nose job done you? There's no way that it is like that naturally. The only reason I say that is that I don't want you to compare yourself and feel inadequate.
I'd love to be that beautiful but am sure I would be a class A bitch so prob not a good wish for me. 😜😝

Mistyglade · 19/10/2025 23:57

mydogisthebest · 07/05/2024 18:14

Every one has a different opinion on what is beautiful or not. I do think Anok is beautiful but definitely don't think Angelina Jolie is.

I thought Kaley Cuoco was pretty when she was younger in Big Bang Theory but now I think she looks very ordinary, even plain

I’ve always found Angelina unpleasant to look at, she scares me a bit. Amok is otherworldly beautiful. She’s a work of art.