I think a sure sign of someone's lacking imagination is when they see hotness as a hierarchy, when there are clearly different universes of hotness, and people who stand out in their own way within their own milieu, and it's truly strange and marvellous when hotnesses from different milieux combine. Like it's literally a fitness landscape, with many distinct local optima. I am especially interested in varieties of ugly-hot, people with objectively wonky faces who nevertheless just have it in spades. Quillette (steering abruptly back to the topic at hand) seems to me to be a site for the sorts of people who believe there's a global total ordering that can be applied to this situation; as with "intelligence", which similarly is multidimensional and includes all kinds of surprising varieties of clever-stupid and stupid-clever,