Playing with Fire
Beautiful woman defined
By Gonzalo Duque
HOW come, you ask, this columnist has acquired the temerity to write about the qualities of a beautiful woman?
We had a grand time munching the subject with the country’s sporting officials the likes of Philippine Sports Commission Chairman Harry Ang Ping, a former congressman of Manila and Philippine Jaycees president.
Harry, by the way, has invited us to go with him to People’s China on May 23 to presumably take a look at how they promote, build and develop their athletes with the end in view of translating these observations in the Philippines. A man with big visions and dreams, Harry has impressed us with a heart as big as the China Sea in his bid to promote sports in our country.
Kasama tayo diyan, mga igan, and with Harry behind that big goal, we are almost sure as the sun rising in the east that the goal is achievable.
Back to our subject of beauty. How do men like us and Harry and familiar friends like many of you, warm-blooded males, define beautiful women?
Our Private Schools Athletic Association or PRISAA was to hold a nationwide search for Miss PRISSA, and we were kept in an exciting dialogue on what beauty is all about, especially a beautiful Miss PRISAA. How do they do it in the proverbial Miss Philippines or Bb. Pilipinas or Miss Asia quests? Or say, a Miss Pistay Dayat or Limgas na Dayat?
If you ask us, and this we told beauty tilt organizers, we find a woman or a lady beautiful, exquisitely pleasing to the eyes if she has all the attributes of pulchritude, smooth and flawless skin, natural svelte eyes, flowing hair whether blonde or black, but please, without the make-up.
The advent of Max Factor, you see, has made not so pretty faces glow and knock most men’s wits. But we say, a cosmeticized beauty has no staying power because the ‘natural’ would show eventually.
Aside from her well-distributed pounds in say, a well-sculpted Coca Cola body, we swoon or croon for what most avant garde gentlemen consider the punchline of an inner beauty. There’s this beauty of a beautiful face that can’t hold a candle to one who seems less beautiful but holds one spellbound because she has the “it.”
What do we mean by the “it?”
Well, ask Al Fernandez or Ermin Garcia, or Guvnor Spines or Harry Ang Ping, or Chito Samson. They will tell you that it is she who is able to hold her ground in an intelligent conversation who has a strong appeal. No, not that she is devastatingly witty who knocks you out in a conversation, No, but one who is able to project a most pleasant femininity and yet able to maintain a celestial distance that keeps men hankering or savoring for more.
They say — and most of us can’t help but agree — that most of one’s admiration for a beautiful woman is mostly subjective. True and false. True because most men have their own standards of beauty, and these arrive at a common denominator when they vote for one who has the most credentials in a beauty pageant.
A top beauty authority has advanced the view that the proverbial inner beauty that captivates men’s hearts is actually the sum total of her intellectual being, her character. Well, that’s it, the inner fire that makes men spell-bound cometh from a woman’s inner self, the plus-side that she exudes, warmth, friendliness, loveliness, and no amount of “pampabyutis” from the most expensive beauty creams can beat that inner fire.
You’ve heard it before that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Whoever coined that is actually saying that beauty is more subjective than objective. We hasten to say “no;” it is that inner beauty – character – that is casually dismissed as subjective, which is not actually, because most men are in concurrence on what really constitutes a beautiful woman… Well, the exciting exquisitely sculpted body is there, but the one that floors most beauty connoisseurs is the beauty inside. See in her eyes, hear it in her words and in her voice that come from her attractive mouth.
Pwede na ba tayong mag judge sa Miss Universe contest?
