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Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier
The Daily Beast ^ | 10/6/12 | Allison Yarrow

Posted on 10/07/2012 3:38:33 PM PDT by Evil Slayer

They’re calling it the Michele Bachmann effect. And no, it’s not the Minnesota congresswoman’s crusade to ban falafel from public schools. It refers to the relationship between a woman’s politics and her face.

Allison Yarrow hit the Highline to see if people could tell a difference between Democratic and Republican female politicians.

Women politicians with “stereotypical feminine facial features” are more often Republicans, found researchers at UCLA]. And the more feminine their features, the more conservative their voting records. They also found the reverse—that women with more masculine facial features tended to be Democrats. Less gender-typical visages tracked with more liberal voting records. The correlation between face and party ideology was stronger for Republican women politicians than Democrats.

Psychology Professor Kerri Johnson and graduate student Colleen Carpinella applied computer modeling to pictures of the entire 111th U.S. Congress to determine which facial features and the spacing between them connote a more masculine or more feminine face. They then asked college students to look at the 434 portraits and guess which women belonged to each party—and they pegged Republican women correctly 98 percent of the time. Johnson and Carpinella posit that the reason for these facial correlations in women politicians stem from perceived gender roles entrenched in each party’s DNA.

"The Democratic Party is associated with social liberal policies that aim to diminish gender disparities, whereas the Republican Party is associated with socially conservative policy issues that tend to bolster traditional sex roles," Johnson said in a UCLA release.

The trend did not apply to male politicians in the same way. Male Republican faces “scored less masculine” than Democrats, but the researchers found this less interesting than the data about women because they said male politicians are less likely to “exhibit masculinity through their appearance” than through their actions.

This experiment

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1 posted on 10/07/2012 3:38:39 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
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To: Evil Slayer

We knew this already.


2 posted on 10/07/2012 3:40:53 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Evil Slayer

I think all Freepers would agree with that! Thanks!


3 posted on 10/07/2012 3:42:10 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Evil Slayer

I think GOP women are prettier because they have more open, non-angry faces. Whatever your natural gifts are, wearing an ugly Dem face doesn’t help!

A lot of one’s appearance has to do with attitude.


4 posted on 10/07/2012 3:43:14 PM PDT by livius
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To: Evil Slayer

I think this is true, although I have always thought it was conservative women are prettier than liberal women.


5 posted on 10/07/2012 3:45:24 PM PDT by Reddon
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To: originalbuckeye
Now, you know Helen isn't that bad looking.

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6 posted on 10/07/2012 3:45:42 PM PDT by Evil Slayer ((Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war....))
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To: Evil Slayer

survey says republican women are prettier?

that is just because they don’t have hairy legs


7 posted on 10/07/2012 3:46:44 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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8 posted on 10/07/2012 3:46:50 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: Evil Slayer

Sarah Steelman

9 posted on 10/07/2012 3:48:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Obama better hope a Kicked Ass is covered under Obamacare. -- Dennis Miller re debate 1)
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10 posted on 10/07/2012 3:49:00 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: livius
A lot of one’s appearance has to do with attitude.

Yes, and not only prettier, they have nicer personalities too. This is certainly true in my family. It also seems to hold for women in politics, women pundits, women in the Press, women on The View, women actors in Hollywood, etc.

11 posted on 10/07/2012 3:50:39 PM PDT by Reddon
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12 posted on 10/07/2012 3:53:12 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Evil Slayer

Rush, as usual, is right:

“Feminism is about victimization. Don’t forget Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24. Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”

There is a WORLD of difference between “feminine” and “feminism”!

BTW, there are many women who are not “photogenic” but are kind and feminine and altogether lovely!


13 posted on 10/07/2012 3:53:19 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Evil Slayer

I don’t think this has ever been in question!

A liberals attitude makes their face look mean.


14 posted on 10/07/2012 3:56:15 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Evil Slayer

It isn’t even close. However, they aren’t only better looking, they are a hell of a lot smarter too. GOP guys get a twofer!


15 posted on 10/07/2012 3:58:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Sorry Algore. It was attitude, NOT altitude.)
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To: Evil Slayer

WRONG! It’s like this: Conservative women are prettier than lib women.
I’ve seen some female RINOs who are as ugly as Betty Friedan and Hillary.


16 posted on 10/07/2012 4:06:45 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Clinging to my Bible and my HK.)
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To: Evil Slayer

“The Democratic Party is associated with social liberal policies that aim to diminish gender disparities,” and in the process removing any priority on personal grooming.


17 posted on 10/07/2012 4:09:11 PM PDT by ArmyTeach (Our liberties, we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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To: Evil Slayer

I was running errands on Friday. I saw two cars with Obama stickers (one of them was covered with leftwing stickers, including the “Co-exist” one). One was driven by a man; he was wimpy and feminine looking. The other was driven by a woman, who was, predictably, ugly.

Later on I saw an SUV with a Romney/Ryan sticker. As I passed, I gave the driver a thumbs up. She was a pretty female.


18 posted on 10/07/2012 4:11:01 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: Albion Wilde

still waiting on more pics
sarah
michelle [2]
kimberly
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just noticed the names too. more traditional?


19 posted on 10/07/2012 4:11:12 PM PDT by Principled (Vote Romney to stop Obama. Vote for conservative Reps and Senators to stop Romney. [ZET 7/30/12])
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To: Evil Slayer

With respect to women, it appears that hate, envy and jealousy age them a lot quicker than other women who do not harbor those self-destructive attributes.


20 posted on 10/07/2012 4:12:40 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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