@Simone_De_Beauvoir You create a false dichotomy. Just because scars aren’t flaws (which they aren’t) does not mean they automatically add character. I see no contradiction there. Character is all about perception. If one person want to see a scar on the side of a woman’s forehead has a flaw, they do. If they care to see it as an interesting characteristic, they do. How they decide to do it, or what way they chose to see it is dumb how, because they chose to notice it, or because they can’t ignore it? The actuality is that a scar is a blemish on the skin, it was not there from birth.
Scars don’t need to be like topics that you don’t discuss or topics you discuss. Of course it doesn’t need to be a point of discussion, however, like a missing limb, there is always the chance it will.
@deni I don’t think it generally goes one way or the other. They can add character to someones appearance, I guess in certain situations. They can also be unattractive. That is the thing. I have heard women speak of some man they just met with an interesting scar on his jaw, but I never heard men say that of women. I am musing, if scars on the face of women are not as forgivable as if on a man? Is that because men are expected to have scars more?
@SavoirFaire Where is the scar? I can’t see it.