{"id":34573,"date":"2016-04-26T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34573"},"modified":"2016-04-17T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T13:28:43","slug":"qotd-sadly-looks-do-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/qotd-sadly-looks-do-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sadly, looks <em>do<\/em> matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re a woman who wants to land a man, there&#8217;s this notion that you should be able to go around looking like Ernest Borgnine: If you&#8217;re &#8220;beautiful on the inside,&#8221; that&#8217;s all that should count. Right. And I should have a flying car and a mansion in Bel Air with servants and a moat.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Uglytopia &mdash; the world reimagined as a place where it&#8217;s the content of a woman&#8217;s character, not her pushup bra, that puts her on the cover of <em>Maxim<\/em>. It just doesn&#8217;t seem fair to us that some people come into life with certain advantages &mdash; whether it&#8217;s a movie star chin or a multimillion-dollar shipbuilding inheritance. Maybe we need affirmative action for ugly people; make George Clooney rotate in some homely women between all his gorgeous girlfriends. While we wish things were different, we&#8217;d best accept the ugly reality: No man will turn his head to ogle a woman because she looks like the type to buy a turkey sandwich for a homeless man or read to the blind.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the real beauty myth is the damaging one Wolf and other feminists are perpetuating &mdash; the absurd notion that it serves women to thumb their noses at standards of beauty. Of course, looks aren&#8217;t all that matter (as I&#8217;m lectured by female readers of my newspaper column when I point out that male lust seems to have a weight limit). But looks matter a great deal. The more attractive the woman is, the wider her pool of romantic partners and range of opportunities in her work and day-to-day life. We all know this, and numerous studies confirm it &mdash; it&#8217;s just heresy to say so.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Alkon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/201010\/the-truth-about-beauty\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Truth About Beauty&#8221;, <em>Psychology Today<\/em><\/a>, 2010-11-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a woman who wants to land a man, there&#8217;s this notion that you should be able to go around looking like Ernest Borgnine: If you&#8217;re &#8220;beautiful on the inside,&#8221; that&#8217;s all that should count. Right. And I should have a flying car and a mansion in Bel Air with servants and a moat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28,41],"tags":[139,255,43],"class_list":["post-34573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-quotations","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8ZD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34574,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573\/revisions\/34574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}