The Origins of Cuteness - Joshua Dale | Maiden Mother Matriarch 113

[@TigerHogan]

Fascinating.

[@mkkrupp2462]

For me - all Puppies and kittens are adorable. Whereas not all human babies or young children are.

[@moonlightray8493]

As a Chinese girl who wears lolita fashion (among other cute substyles), I'm really happy to see that your guest has an accurate understanding of lolita subculture, and immediately clarified the misleading name! Great conversation.

[@alesalter7653]

What a cute conversation) Thank you so much for your dedicated work)))

[@dakota-sessions]

The people of Japan are very neotenous. It cannot be a coincidence that the people who look young like things that are young looking.

[@sinesaii]

Why do men in other countries like young women, and gay men who like young men? It is not cultural, but biological. As men age they mistake youth for beauty. Mother Nature pushes reproduction, whether we like it or not.

[@jenniferlawrence2701]

4:46 cat paw appears

[@tianming4964]

Kawaii desu ne

[@gordo6908]

14:28 moeru?

[@MarianaGarcia-lj7lc]

Another example of a character getting increasingly cute is snoooy. The original design was meh, but every iteration gets cuter

[@sinesaii]

Sometimes we descend into mental masturbation. This is one of those times.

[@Ao456kl]

Lemme guess, lolicon is innocent too 🙄

[@allrequiredfields]

I knew somebody was going to try to make this about pedophilia.

[@SophieHamilton-d3e]

⁠@@allrequiredfieldsinteresting that paedophilia crossed your mind too. Sometimes one’s intuition kicks in and one can feel creeped out.

[@Jules-Is-a-Guy]

Mai homie is telepathically intuiting, that my sort of closest family growing up, was my Japanese-Filipino-British-Swiss-Italian cousin. Simultaneously, caught a vicarious glimpse of my Irish redheaded off-again ex, artist-type almost always completely downplaying looks, disliking excessive male attention. (Sometimes lots of beauty revealed, when her beautician friend practiced hair and makeup on her, lol). And of course, L-ster is wearing everything red, and discussing nuances of covert cuteness. I'm getting heavily love-trolled. Or so it would appear. And, um, it's absolutely fine.

[@Jules-Is-a-Guy]

Huh, actually also, that one brief red sweater moment, in that TV on the Radio vid. Yes, communication successful. I'm glad that my life's not complicated, and no one else's life is complicated, and there are no complications of any kind, for anyone, ever.

[@eyesthatwatch69]

This is so wholesome