Why do you like...'cute'?

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I like 'cute'. I believe even more so than the average person. Perhaps this is the reason why I can tolerate babies and find little kids adorable, despite their annoying habbits...

"cute" is a cultural thing.

Proof ( from a synopsis of an episode of "Fairly Oddparents" ) :

( source: http://fairlyoddparents.wikia.com/wiki/Spaced_Out )

I guess I don't really know why I like cute things. When I see little kittens, they make me so happy because they are cute, but I don't really know why.

I love cute things and I find many things to be cute, even animals that would take a chunk out of me if I went near. Still cute to me cos they're animals. I love smiling faces and I think they're cute. I sometimes find myself staring at people who are smiling as they talk to their friends.

However I really hate those girls who try to act cute to manipulate others. I seem to be very good at detecting them for some weird reason, even when guys would turn a blind eye on their true colours and ignore my warnings. Maybe it's a woman thing.

Instinct, I reckon. I have to wonder if your feeling that cute things are going to turn evil and your association of cute with violence has to do with some kind of bad experience in childhood. Maybe some scary movie you forgot seeing at a very young age or a mean animal you encountered, something like that. I have to think of that boy who was conditioned to fear fluffy white animals...

ETA: Or some sort of association similar to the one that makes me afraid of butterflies? I identify with everything, including insects, and they are so fragile and unpredictable I have to be afraid I will accidentally kill them, which is terrifying because I empathize with them.

Seeing cute makes me happy. That's it.

It's an evolutionary trait that was selected for because it protected babies/children.

I agree, and lets pretend big eyes is the only thing that makes them cute.

Actually, we don't have to pretend, it is mostly true:
( source: http://www.parents.com/baby/care/newborn/newborn-guide/ )

( source: http://askville.amazon.com/eyes-human-b ... Id=3498711 )

..but wait, there is more. The head keeps growing longer. It is almost done at the age of 10 ( source: http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/wh ... op-growing ), and since the eyes look bigger on a smaller head, that means at the age of 10-11 years humans should be able to fight for themselves since they have lost their "cute defense system".


In Japan, they have eye-, instead of breast- surgery ( blepharoplasty ). Beauty, and cuteness is in the eye (pun intended) of the beholder.

Exactly.

Maybe you associate cuteness with violence because that is totally what pokemon is about? xd

Srsly, they put a lot of work into coming up with things of otherworldly cuteness just to make them fight each other.

Not all Pokémon are cute. Usually the smaller are and the huge tough ones (the ones best suited for battle) are not. Just look at Scyther, Charizard, Groudon... Besides, Pokémon battles aren't even violent. They're friendly competitions with no blood or death.

Anyway...

I LOVE cuteness. It makes me happy. And I bet I was that friend she mentioned. I don't see how nice, clean things could make you violent. It makes no sense.

Perhaps I should refrain from this one. Personally, excessive cuteness can get tiresome, even offensive to me.
I like beautiful things, butterflies, shells, women, etc.
Better question is why some societies like Japan are so enamored of cuteness! LOL

Sincerely,
Matthew

http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/

Psh. There are plenty of cute pokemon between the OU and UU tiers alone. This is totally ignoring the fact that a serious pokemon player can easily manhandle the in game fights with a party full of wigglytuffs and clefables.

Also, anything that crunches with sharp teeth and burns with jets of flame is violent. =P

That isn't even the type of "violent" she means (though I can't see how a game rated for six and up could be violent). She means violence like murdering people, like in games like Call of Duty. Pokémon don't murder anyone.

Cute things make people happy because it makes them smile.

^ ^ Kawaii *-*

That seems like a good explanation. I wonder if there are studies about people around the word, and tribesmen and stuff also liking cute, or it is only something in our culture.