Cindy Crawford beats Claudia Schiffer because of her mole
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An opinion poll found men preferred Cindy Crawford to the 'too perfect' Claudia Schiffer; the mole is the index of imperfection that triggers love. Žižek uses this to illustrate the objet petit a logic: one falls in love in spite of an imperfection, which crystallises the 'something more than you' in the beloved.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“Claudia Schiffer is too perfect. Cindy Crawford has that sign there like it shouldn't be a perfect woman there must be a small sign of imperfection.”
“Claudia Schiffer is too perfect. It caused anxiety. You need a sign of imperfection.”
“Claudia Schiffer is too perfect. Cindy Crawford has that sign there, like it shouldn't be a perfect woman, there must be a small sign of imperfection.”
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko2Anna Netrebko2Lynn Margulis2Rider Haggard1Christina1Carla Bruni1Carl von Ossietzky1Anna Moffo1
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An opinion poll found men preferred Cindy Crawford to the 'too perfect' Claudia Schiffer; the mole is the index of imperfection that triggers love. Žižek uses this to illustrate the objet petit a logic: one falls in love in spite of an imperfection, which crystallises the 'something more than you' in the beloved., illustrating objet petit a,love,surplus enjoyment
A poll found men prefer Cindy Crawford to the more conventionally perfect Claudia Schiffer because of Crawford's birthmark; perfection causes anxiety, imperfection is the necessary supplement that makes the object desirable., illustrating less is more,imperfection as erotic supplement,surplus enjoyment
A poll showed men preferred Cindy Crawford over the 'perfect' Claudia Schiffer because she had a visible imperfection (a mole), which served as the index of 'something more' that triggers love., illustrating object small a,sexuality-gender