Why Smart Women are Unattractive

Re:Why Smart Women are Unattractive by battlepanda on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:23PM (#562853)

Lets put it this way. I think of myself (I wrote the piece) as quite attractive to a lot of people...but with the exception of America Ferrera in Ugly Betty, there is no female character in the movies or on TV who is my size or larger and gets the guys.

It's a message that society sends...you are not attractive enough if you are not super-groomed, super-thin. As I get older, I am getting better at resisting this message.

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Re:Why Smart Women are Unattractive by _pius on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:29PM (#562867)

there is no female character in the movies or on TV who is my size or larger and gets the guys

Hollywood sucks for this sort of thing. There's a very small group of people who have way too much sway over what society thinks attractive girls, smart people, black people, liberals, conservatives, et al look like. It's pretty damaging.

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Re:Why Smart Women are Unattractive by battlepanda on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:42PM (#562887)

I have found it to be less damaging as I grow older and got more confidence in myself. But kids, they're stupid and they believe what they see on the TeeVee machine is a reflection of life.

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