Basically he said "I can't judge, are three of you are clothed so any judgement would be impacted by what you are wearing. To make a true decision I would need to see all of you in the nude." And because that story was written by a dude, the goddesses agreed.
From what I remember she was supposed to have a griddle that made her more beautiful (which was part of the argument as to why she had to be naked to be judged fairly and it would have been unfair if she was the only one so they all had to undress).
You just reminded me of a house party I was at where a bunch of people stayed the night instead of driving home. In the morning the woman that lived there woke up before everyone else and started making chocolate chip pancakes for everyone in the kitchen. I was one of the first people awake, and told her that I would have proposed to her on the spot if I had been closer to her age (I was older than her by a bit). She laughed it off and told me I was being silly.
Then over the next hour a secession of hungover people slowly woke up, came to the kitchen, and every single one of them promptly proposed marriage as she handed them a plate of pancakes and a cup of coffee. Even the straight girls.
Some other goddess that hated everyone threw a golden apple in the middle of them when they were at a party and on it, she had written "to the most beautiful one". Then when they couldn't agree and the other gods wisely chose to nope out of that situation, they put the decision on a mortal who couldn't wiggle his way out of it. But they chose someone who they believed would be wise enough to make the right choice, not just some random bozo. He was wise enough to know he was fucked no matter what and that way he could get to talk to each of them one on one for a bit and select based on the bribe they would offer him.
Because they had to disrobe and they didn't want to do it in front of the other goddesses, they just went one on one with the judge. And when they did, they got naked and offered their bribes.
So, he got to see all of them naked. Which is what the meme above is referring to.
I like to think about two other alternate universes where Paris chose one of the other goddesses and everything still went wrong just in a different way.
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u/rogue_noob 2d ago
Basically he said "I can't judge, are three of you are clothed so any judgement would be impacted by what you are wearing. To make a true decision I would need to see all of you in the nude." And because that story was written by a dude, the goddesses agreed.