GigaChad Aesthetics as an Eternal Ideal?
We live in the era of the GigaChad. Of U.F.C. cage matches on the White House lawn. Of teenaged looksmaxxers progressing from mewing to bone smashing to hardmaxxing with chin implants and buccal fat excision, in pursuit of the prominent jaw and high cheekbones of their chiseled masculine paragon. They claim it is the eternal, evolutionarily-compelled ideal that all men have always hoped to embody. It isn’t! Consider Cesare Lombroso, the 19th century eugenicist and pioneering criminologist who invented the photographic mug shot. He was a misogynist and a racist, and a big believer in the glory of Rome and Western civilization. So you’d imagine he’d be a fan of GigaChad faces. But the truth is absolutely the opposite! The eugenically-inferior physiognomy that proved a man was born to criminality and evil acts, he claimed, were the “animalistic” features of “enormous jaws” and “high cheekbones.” Superior men of innate good character had “refined” features, wrote Lombroso...