Careful NYT, you may end up with people being hired on merit!
-—Rush had a blast with this, this morning-—
What if you are ugly because you are fat?
Does that mean “fat” is now protected as a form of ugliness?
Wouldn’t that make “the war on Obesity” a hate crime?
I don’t think they thought this one out.
Eventually, everyone will be a “class” of disenfranchised victim. None of this is really a secret. There have also been numerous studies about tall people doing much better financially. As a petite woman, I have seen this time and time again. I have seen taller counterparts move ahead (less qualified). Men who are of a short stature will experience this as well. Another problem with being small is that people just don’t “see” you. It caused me to learn to be assertive early on. Deli clerks and so many other situations cause me to be behind a counter that is above my head. The world was not created for Lilliputians. : )
One of the first realities we learn as children is that life is not “fair.” We can whine about it or accept it and work hard.
I thought that all the ugly people had government jobs already in DC?
What about those with ugly hearts and minds?
People in this world are fooled by painted turds.
>> How could we remedy this injustice?...
Abort the ugly.
Being smart is already discriminated against.
Whoa, I guess J. Nappy broke the mold.
“Why this disparate treatment of looks in so many areas of life? It’s a matter of simple prejudice. Most of us, regardless of our professed attitudes, prefer as customers to buy from better-looking salespeople, as jurors to listen to better-looking attorneys, as voters to be led by better-looking politicians, as students to learn from better-looking professors”
It’s not prejudice, then, is it? Obviously on the level of the customers a case can be made, though it’s not fair to say out of hand that this is any more of a prejudice than our prejudice for, say, food that tastes good. We could perhaps eat nothing but sufficiently nutritious gruel and live long lives. But we are willing to pay for yumminess, just as we are willing to pay for attractiveness in the buying experience.
I digress. The main point is that even if the disperate treatement derives from prejudice on the part of customers it is most assuredly not a matter of simple prejudice. It is a matter of supreme justice, custmore preferences being what they are.
I always say, “Cash is king, but beauty’s queen.”
OF COURSE some people are more beautiful than others!
Even God acknowledges this! The bible has multiple references towards beauty, and how this distinction is a physical truism.
If physical ugliness attracted the eye, media executives would not hire women who look like this:
They would hire women instead who looked like this:
If we don't have beauty, then God has given us other gifts which we are to find and use. God sees the heart of every person. That is what is important. But, only PC leftists would try and make a "civil rights" case out of physical ugliness.
I suppose that in these evil days, where colleges are now giving scholarships to homosexual perverts based on their disgusting behavior (does a "Fister" get more money than others?) - then nothing should surprise us.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A man who has green money stuff in his hand is much more attractive to females than otherwise (not that green is forever, but some worship it that way and our current crisis is betting on that worship).
A man who is happy with a girlfriend will also look a lot better and women/business will be after him.
It’s all in the energy.
This is true right down to voting. Ever since women got the vote, the prettier guy with the fuller head of hair has had an instant advantage over his uglier opponent. The taller guy already had a big advantage over his shorter opponent with the male vote.
It is a real and indisputable fact that good looks confer a massive advantage on a person, all things being equal. This has always been true and always will be true. Human nature never changes.
Unbelievable...
PING!
Have as much fun with this professor turkey as possible...
From the thread title, I thought it meant I could sue my parents!