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Bro bodybuilders ruined the word "aesthetics".
I know their misuse of the word is intentional because you don't want to sound homo when you compliment a dude. Sure, calling a dude "aesthetic" is actually gayer than calling him beautiful, but perhaps that's the actual joke. Regardless, they created this entire avalanche and now we have mentally challenged kids who want to sound smart so they throw the word around whenever they can.
Nothing is "pretty" or "beautiful" anymore, instead "X is aesthetic". It's not only cringeworthy, but incorrect use of the word. Something may have "aesthetic qualities", but it cannot "be aesthetic".
Is there something that can be done to alleviate this? Do all teenagers, college students and other quasi-intellectuals need to be gassed?
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>>8312925
Stop thinking this ever happens regularly in real life, you internet addicted piece of shit
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>>8312925
>Something may have "aesthetic qualities", but it cannot "be aesthetic".
Language evolves my friend. don't try to stand against a tidal wave of memes.
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>>8312952
I like to think it evolves, but if there's no tongue-in-cheek self awareness when you abuse a word like this, it's just devolving, really.
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>>8312935
>Tfw I lift and I do this
>my friends all do it too
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>>8312925
Aesthetic is a useful word. For instance, consider this: If I work out regularly, or do athletics or whatnot, my body might be aesthetic, but it's definitely not pretty, and unless something is really unusual (if I happen to be particularly androgynous) I might, might be beautiful.
Ofc, the problem is with English having too few words to express this. My mother language has two distinct words, of which one covers your strict "of or pertaining to specific aesthetics" and the other the newer use of aesthetic. English probably used to have a corresponding word pair, but the other word, Awful, drifted away from that meaning. So now you are just stuck with impressive.
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>>8312992
unless - > if* or something. Salvage that as you will.
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>>8312968
I guess I'll add to this that it's contextual, and I still appreciate the use of the word in its other contexts/meanings.
also
>Calling some "aesthetic" is actually gayer than calling him beautiful
Nope, noooooo. No way. Calling a dude beautiful would be gay as fuck, seeing as it's used in a much more subjective sense whereas "aesthetic" is used more in the objective sense, as in "good proportions, good size etc etc, that's a body people would aspire to". There's more distance there.
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yes.
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>>8312925
Bodybuilding is art, in fact one of the highest forms of art
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>>8312925
>"Hello brother, your impressive figure encroaches upon the sublime, and I derive great aesthetic pleasure from it"
t. OP
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>>8313226
Pornography is an art, one of the highest forms of art man can make with his body.
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