And, as a corollary, 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.
And, as a corollary, any man who wants to be more successful would spend a reasonable amount of effort and resources seeking to maximize his attractiveness as a way of enhancing his competitive positioning in a broad range of activities.
If those two statements have equal value - and they should - why were they not written as
And, as a corollary, anyone who wants to be more successful will spend a reasonable amount of effort and resources seeking to maximize attractiveness as a way of enhancing competitive positioning in a broad range of activities.
The value for each sentence is different.
Julia
Both sentances are TRUE... but perhaps not equally true.
I was basing my comment upon the research that was presented...
which seemed to indicate a divergence in the imporatance of appearance in the evaluation of the two genders (". Intriguingly though, male candidates were also more likely to win votes if they appeared approachable [r (60) = 0.55, p<0.009], while female candidates were more likely to win votes if they were more attractive")
As for
IMO one has to be able to clearly look at something in order to deal with it.
-- just how many women do you think have ignored this message from society?
I know for a fact that black people don't -- haven't -- ignored racism. Any more than women have ignored "looksism" (a word I dislike, btw).
Yes, and I doubt that not many Backs would say "Skin color makes no differecence in how Black people are evaluated" We know that people can have "aision toned skin and not suffer from the same discrimination. We know that people can have medditeraneian toned skin and suffer from l;ess discrimination, we know that white people can be darkly tanned and suffer from no discrimination..... And ALSO, we know that darker skinned people can at time try to lighten their skin tone to reduce discrimination.
Julia
I am simply saying that there appears to be a gender based differential between the relative importance of attraciveness (in our culture and possibly more universally). It appears that this research confirms my assertion.
And then as a correlary, I am saying that IF my assetrion is true, then it would follow that there would also tend to be a gender based differential of concern about ones appearance.
And, as a further correlary, to the degree that statements one and two are true, then this would also, at least partially explain the differential in gender targeting by the beauty industry.
