"He looks just like you"
"Thank you"
"Soooo cute!"
Huh?
Ok...
so:
- my decades long struggle to transcend "cute" and reach some suitably manly adjective has failed,
or - cuteness is not transitive
must achieve zen
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I am not usually the type to put pictures of cute animals up. I leave that to Cute Overload. I don't really even like animals. (I know...shameful coming from a biologist.)
Puppies are cute. Kittens are cute. Puppies DRESSED AS KITTENS: cute overload!
Conan O'Brien, you are the cute master.
(H/T @KSuzJ via twitter)
What makes children so cute?
I have been trying to understand the peculiar popularity of these posts about sharp-clawed carnivores called "cats", and near as I can tell it has something to do with the property of cuteness.
Neither - cuteness is an independent traits from general looks. Therefore, cuteness is only partially transitive, and you may or may not be cute. Or you both are and are not cute..
mini versions of things (even manly things) are cute. Haven't you seen the burger king commercial?
Doesn't Arrow's Theorem apply to cuteness? That is, one cannot avoid nontransitive cuteness. For example, my dog is cuter than your cat, your cat is cuter than his iguana, his iguana is cuter than my dog?