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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:43:32 -0500
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- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- From: prkenne@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (CAROL SHARP)
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- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- In article <1hbgreINN154@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu writes...
- >
- >In a previous article, ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU () says:
- >
- >>Posted on 23 Dec 1992 at 16:27:19 by Aaron L Dickey
- >>>I didn't say you should be happy to put up with such crap, just that the
- >>>downside of attractiveness is, IMHO, a small price to pay for all the
- >>>doors it opens up in society.
- >>
- >>More bullshit. Aaron, what's unattractive about you is not your looks
- >>but your personality.
- >>
- >I have absolutely no idea what you look like Aaron, but given the way you've
- >been talking lately, I wouldn't go out wih you either. Physical attractiveness
- >is a factor, but I know a lot of people the world wouldn't consider
- >"attractive" who are a)happily married, b)engaged, or c)have very active
- >social lives. As long as a person doesn't have a truely horrible B.O. [IMHO]
- >a person's looks really have little to do with it. *Real*, long-term
- >attractiveness is from the inside. A woman I've known since childhood is
- >getting married in February - she's 80, and the groom is older. Do you think
- >either of them look like Richard Gere or Cindy Crawford? Neither ever did
- >to begin with, but they found something in each other that made both
- >decide to tie the knot again. I have news for you, it's not his magnificent
- >physique she fell for.:-)
-
- I find degree of physical attractiveness to be very subjective. The longer
- I know and like a person the more likely I am to think of that person as
- attractive and vice versa with those I find unlikeable.
-
-
- Carol
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