Do you judge people based on appearance?

Yes. Humans recognise each other in their faces.

We don't have to be phrenologists to 'read' faces.

Recognition and inference of personality/temperament based on physical features isn't the same thing, r1.

I don't JUDGE them. The only thing I judge on is behavior and to a lesser extent, attitudes and beliefs.

However, I do OBSERVE people's appearance but those observations have no bearing on me as to what worth I think they have as an individual.

Possibly.

[quote]For example, the guy in the Holbein portrait looks rather pedantic.

Funny, all I thought was that he looks like he would have a big dick.

r3 perhaps judge is too harsh a word. Perhaps "make inferences" would be better ...

lol r5 ...never change, DL

Of course I do. Who doesn't?

Are you young, OP?

We all judge. It’s human nature

[quote]I once read only shallow people don't judge others based on appearance.

Huh? Shallow people actually DO judge others based on appearance. That's my experience.

The biggest joke, when accomplished successful straight men are disappointed that the 'gorgeous' women they're attracted to aren't very bright and are gold diggers. Quelle surprise! Lots of my accomplished straight male relatives aren't lucky in their relationships because they do judge a book by it's cover.

It is from Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Gray, r11:

[quote]People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is. To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

This is a particularly imbecilic thread even for your standards, John/Program Troll.

I do................but what I have discovered is really really good looking men (and women) can have unlikeable personalities, traits, and beliefs just like normal looking people and I DONT overlook that, and all of a sudden they arent so attractive....I use to try and ignore it and give them major slack due to looks, but I dont do that anymore. Basically pretty is as pretty does.

People who sweat are awful.

People with eyes too close together are untrustworthy.

People with teeth missing are hillbillies.

Females caked in make-up are idiots.

People who have black stains on their body are failures.

Men with square-shaped brows and high foreheads are Greek Gods in marble.

[quote]People who have black stains on their body are failures.

?

Suicidal failures

I already had r17, et al blocked.

Nope,i only believe half of what i see

An none of what I hear.....

Well I check out fingernails- long/bitten/dirty....big negative. Same for dirty clothes, and also if they are polyester or synthetic blends. Clean ears too. Amazing what one can see in there sometimes.

Every sensible person gathers information from another person's appearance, but that's not the same thing as "judging", to use the word in its negative sense.

To treat a person as inferior because of their appearance is shallow or snobbish, and to regard a person as a potential life partner because you like their appearance is foolish.

"People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is. To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

It's terribly cruel to treat someone as fascinating because they're physically beautiful, because beauty never lasts.

Which character said that in "Dorian Gray", one of the shallow assholes?

r22, are you new to the DL?

R21 What's wrong with being "snobbish"?

Hillary was being a snob deploring half of the nation's population.

I bet r24 faps feverishly and uncontrollably to pictures of Hillary Clinton