I think everybody here including the original poster has completely missed what's going on here. I could be wrong, but I'd bet by bippy that what happened was that your girlfriend, Clocker, was giving you a message. Ever hear the expression, "Judge not that you be not judged"? Well if you have you're not practicing it, apparently. People are nervous around judgmental people because they don't like being treated casually and compared like meat in a butcher shop. You judges those dogs callously and without heart and your girlfriend saw herself under your microscope. Oh, it's not that critical people don't flock together like vultures to make community fun of others, it's happening to you right in this thread. that's why you're so anxious to bail out of it. You're over it right. Hehe. I don't think so. Your girlfriend may be a lot more sensitive than you are. She may have seen great beauty in those dogs and found your observation of how they measure up shallow and cold and potentially applicable to her. You needed a wake-up call.
Since people have such a hard time knowing what they feel, her message was relayed unconsciously. In turn you may actually prefer to think of yourself as average looking than judgmental. Time to stop and try to analyze your behavior. Maybe you will want to talk about those dogs again with her and see if she finds something about you intimidating. Her own poor self image may make her oversensitive to any type of exposure to physical criticism, even of a nearby dog.
And don't forget that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That means ugly is too. If you really look deep into this you will discover that all the beauty you will ever see is not out there, but what out there stimulates within. And all the ugliness there is, is just our own too.
"Oh my beloved, wherever I look it, appears to be thou."
One big problem with people is that they are incapable of handling a critical remark,