‘I’m Just Stating a Preference!’ Lookism in Online Dating Profiles

Pub Date : 2022-01-07 DOI:10.1515/mopp-2021-0046
S. F. Midtgaard
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Abstract This paper considers the potentially wrongful discriminatory nature of certain of our dating preferences. It argues that the wrongfulness of such preferences lies primarily in the simple lookism they involve. While it is ultimately permissible for us to date people partly because of how they look, I argue that we have a duty to ‘look behind’ people’s appearance, which I take to mean that we ought not, on the basis of their appearance, to regard them as absolutely out of the question for us to engage with in a romantic setting. Further, constraints similar to those suggested by a duty to look behind people’s appearance gain support from another duty we have, namely, a duty to counteract, also in our daily lives, the fact that people are undeservedly disadvantaged in various ways.
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“我只是在说明我的偏好!”网上约会资料中的外貌歧视
本文考虑了我们某些约会偏好的潜在错误歧视性质。它认为,这种偏好的不正当性主要在于它们所涉及的简单的外表主义。虽然我们与人约会的部分原因是他们的外表,但我认为我们有责任“看穿”人们的外表,我认为这意味着我们不应该根据他们的外表,认为他们绝对不可能与我们在浪漫的环境中交往。此外,类似于审视人们外表背后的责任所暗示的约束,从我们的另一种责任中得到了支持,即,在我们的日常生活中,也有责任抵消人们在各种方面不应有的劣势。
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