Beauty and the Beast.

   Me and a couple of friends were having an informal opinion poll on the many females of both school and church. Through heated debates, some withering glares and a good dose of male testosterone, we rated them. Eventually, after each passionate male not willing to budge an inch from who was the most aesthetically pleasing female, we called it quits by unspoken consent and kept proceeded to launch into another tense debate on whether the RPG-7 is for noobs or not.

  

  It brought me back to many other times when I sat around with another group of guys picking girls and choosing who deserved to be the queen of the moment. It was often during these moments that most boys ended up revealing quite an astonishing lot about themselves and their ideals. It was also during these moments that unpopular opinions where often lambasted by exaggeratedly disapproving stares or immense "whatever la's' from the youthful panel of judges. Occasionally, a female would sit in and give her opinion of who was the most attractive girl of the selection we would be talking about. I always found myself slightly surprise whenever I heard whom the others chose. 

  These debates often had many different females thrown in, sometimes polar opposites would clash, other times, every  guy chose a different girl each. 

  Though the more shallow of adolescent male pursuits, it lead me to question, is there really such a thing as an ugly female? After all, since ugly to some may be very attractive to others, it may all actually be a matter of preference. And if its a matter of preference, how can the definition of what is beautiful and the polling of who is beautiful possibly be accurate? 

  Even in beauty pageants, when a panel of judges select the most beautiful woman in the universe, some of their decisions have left me wondering if the tiara-ed lady really is the most beautiful. Some of we extremely professional judges have participated informally participated in casting our well respected criticism on who should win... and have been very publicly disappointed as our selected lady's name isn't called. These then often result into slam quite passionate comments on how sharp noses could pierce walls and how barbies are monstrous creatures. 

  Perhaps, maybe beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. The most "attractive' female often being the closest match to the stereotypical image of what beauty is at the moment. However, to head even deeper, the Bible did say that everyone is wonderfully and fearfully made. How then can a person be ugly? 

  In my opinion. I think the ladies in Vineyard are all very beautiful. Each in their own way. Each brightens up the school with their own uniqueness and personalities. Pathetically compare as I may, I don't see how another girl is more beautiful than another. Maybe every female is very beautiful. Each in her own special way.