Mirror, mirror on the wall

I think its time again for another one of my signature hobbyist experiments in computational sociodynamics. This time I will try to shed some photons at the phenomenon of beauty (the 2026 edition!). In the following I will, for the sake of simplicity, write strictly from my own perspective as a man. To apologize for your possible inconvenience, I want to cite one of my childhood heroes, the sailor Popeye: „I yam what I yam!“. I have clear memories of my childhood crushes. I was madly in love with all of them. Surprisingly, none of them was a particularly „pretty“ girl, in the sense that she had a very regular face. They were lively girls with lots of character, which was also visible in their visual features. I was a rather shy boy when it came to girls. Ashamed of my feelings (more about this soon!), getting close to them was bound to remain a dream. And, if we look back at pictures of movie stars from - let’s say - the 50’s, then we notice easily that many would barely meet modern…