Originally Posted by Mellowicious
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, any woman who wants to be more successful would spend a reasonable amount of effort and resources seeking to maximize her attractiveness as a way of enhancing her competitive positioning in a broad range of activities.

Maybe that's a better approach than a good college degree and solid experience. But if you spend all your life thinking you're being judged by how you look, you're going to a) spend way too much time thinking about appearances, b) be boring on any subject beyond clothes-hair-nails-face, and c) probably slit your wrists when you get to an age where you will never again be the most attractive woman in the room.

It's a sick way to live, and I personally won't do it. That kind of success I don't want or need; the price is far too high.

Julia
The article clearly placed attractiveness as just one of many factors people used for evaluation
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People were significantly more likely to vote for more competent looking male candidates [r (60) = 0.59, p<0.003], and female candidates

For what it is worth, I share your views about becoming a slave to appearance. Never the less, I also think it is important to acknowledge what ever reality might be. For example, we did not get to a less racist society by ignoring it's existence. IMO one has to be able to clearly look at something in order to deal with it.

Ardy


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