*A Boy’s Own Story*

By Edmund White, I enjoyed this paragraph from the preface:

In A Boy’s Own Story I touched on all the themes of my youth: the exaggerated consolations of the imagination; the sexy but crushing teenage culture of the 1950s; the importance of Buddhism, books and psychoanalysis to my development; my first contacts with bohemianism, the sole milieu where homosexuality was tolerated; and finally my cult of physical beauty.  In recent years politically correct gay critics have taken me to task for my *looksism.”  I never respond, but if I were to I’d say “Put the blame on Plato, who originated the seductive if unwholesome idea that physical beauty is a promise of Beauty, indistinguishable from Truth and Goodness.”  All artists are responsive to beauty in any form it appears.

How did “looksism” get turned into “lookism“?