Posted on 04/23/2015 4:16:59 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A new study seems to confirm what we'll call the “Kit Harington Effect," which holds that a man's hunkiness may in fact prove an obstacle to his career. Research from the University of Maryland suggests that good-looking men sometimes have difficulty getting jobs in competitive environments, like sales, because they are subconsciously perceived as a threat to those in charge of hiring.
Considering previous research has suggested that handsome men make more money, are perceived as more competent (attractive women, on the other hand, are often seen as less competent), and are more successful in closing big deals, that threat might not be totally imagined.
Even so, sorry it’s hard out there for you hunks. You might not get a job, but take solace that somewhere, Mr. Harington is playing a tiny, beautiful violin in your honor.
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
It’s a burden. (Sigh!) Yes, a burden...
Finally someone understands our burden....
You @#@#$!! beat me by three minutes!
It has made life that much harder for me...and Laz.
Eureka! At last I have the answer to what I have been wondering for decades! I knew it was just something about me!
I once thought I was doomed to mediocrity because of the strength of my convictions and now I know that it was not that at all!
My handsomality has always been my cross to bear...
Yeah, now all you incredibly handsome men are finally getting the same sort of treatment that we incredibly intelligent men have had to withstand for decades.
It’s Alan from a Bug’s Life!
I’m both, so imagine my struggle.
I find it to be such a burden to bear. ;-)
As an incredibly handsome man I eliminated all these problems and started my own business.
During the Summers I used to work with a guy who was unusually handsome. He was about as likeable as they come. Also a great baseball player.
All the girls liked him, I even discovered that my girlfriend had a crush on him.
He was Italian, well American but a Sicilian name and he had one habit which bothered me. When he was talking to you, he would get right in your face, closer than most people were comfortable with.
At the end of one Summer his parents and sister picked him up and his sister was just as pretty as he was handsome.
Nobody knows the sorrow I’ve seen...
I’m still looking for that lady that likes me for more than my looks.
But lookin IS kinda fun...
People assume you are a mimbo.
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