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- From: good@pixar.com (Your weapons are useless against us.)
- Subject: Lookism
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.182938.28267@pixar.com>
- Originator: good@hogey
- Sender: news@pixar.com (Usenet Newsmaster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hogey.pixar.com
- Organization: Pixar - Pt. Richmond, CA USA
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:29:38 GMT
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- [A friend forwarded something from talk.bizzarre, to which I responded:]
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- This "brainless model" debate rages fairly regularly on alt.supermodels, too.
- The only word on Cindy I've heard from anybody who *might* have actually
- met her was from Penn Jilette, who said "Cindy Crawford is too dumb to f***".
- Having personally met a tall, stunning, professional model who is also a
- computer scientist I feel safe in my assertion that there is no correlation
- between looks and brains, except that the occurrence of either in great
- quantity is a rare event.
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- The "lookism" bias is an interesting one. Good looking people aren't allowed
- to be genuinely intelligent or talented, probably because it would create too
- much jealousy. That's why it's fashionable to pooh-pooh Michelle Pfieffer and
- Tom Cruise, even though they both are quite good actors. On the other hand,
- really ugly people aren't given much slack either, unless they're prominent
- feminists.
-
- --Craig
- --
- good@pixar.com
- At least Congress doesn't make death worse every year.
-