Thread: Pretty Orcs
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Old 08-19-2010, 09:14 PM   #22
gjc8
 
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Default Re: Pretty Orcs

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Originally Posted by Phoenix_Dragon
Pretty important point, yeah. When we're talking about "attractive" or "ugly," we're talking about those values for a specific cultural group. Many human cultures have similar measures of attractive and ugly, but many have very different and often incompatible ones. You can easily have a human that is attractive to one culture, but ugly by our own (It's practically a trope, by now), much less something as culturally different as an orc or elf.
Not to mention differences in attractiveness between different elf and orc cultures.
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