The Beauty Advantage (Better to be average but good looking than brillant but unattractive?)

Newsweek ^ | 07/19/2010 | Jessica Bennett

[editor-surveyor]

You don’t see a thin bleached blonde with a schnauser hair cut?

[Durus]

I’m no expert on womens footwear so I’ll take your word for it. They look painful to walk in.

[stevio]

Amen brother.

[angcat]

We must suffer to be beautiful. Those shoes would kill me but I would wear them.

[TheThirdRuffian]

LOL. You’re obviously insecure and embarrassed.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t be so full of bluster and silliness.

[Durus]

Fashion isn’t worth anybody suffering and beauty, no matter how specatacular, eventually fades.

[angcat]

Beauty may fade but fashion never will!

[Durus]

Fashion will always change, requiring more and more money to stay abreast. It’s almost like it was designed that way...no, it couldn’t be.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Here is the tattoo on Doda (the lady in question). What does it say?

SJackson, can you ping your list? I know it is off your topic, but she is a lovely-looking Jewish lady.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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[Pearls Before Swine]

As a MENSA member, then you also know that you never begin a sentence with "and".

It's ok if the initial "and" is followed by a comma.

[justiceseeker93]

I just looked up Doda on Wikipedia (I know it's not always correct, but it usually gives you a start if you know nothing much about the subject.)

She seems to be the Polish version of Brittney Spears or Lady Gaga, if you know what I mean, despite being better looking and brighter apparently.

She's not Jewish, just got that tattoo in Hebrew visiting Israel with her husband(?). I'm no expert in Hebrew, but my best guess would translate it as "To love Dodik (probably a variant of her name in Polish transliterated into Hebrew).

This is just my personal opinion as a guy, but I don't dig tattoos on women, especially large ones like this appears to be.

[SupplySider]

I think Natalie Portman might be conservative, as well as James Woods. You make an excellent point, though. Perhaps brilliant people can't resist the idea of imposing their schemes on others, by force of arms if need be.

In my experience high intellect and wisdom don't always reside in the same person. Thomas Sowell being an obvious exception.

[TheThirdRuffian]

"I think Natalie Portman might be conservative. . . "

Alas, I am afraid she gets excited by liberals.

[Jewbacca]

My screen resolution isn't good enough. "To Love D-DK" is as good a guess as any. דודה FWIW, "Doda" means "aunt" (or sometimes "lover") in Hebrew. Her husband was a famous footballer in Israel for a time. He was a citizen of Poland and Israel, so I presume is at least of Jewish descent.

[SupplySider]

Wow, that is a great picture. Assuming, of course, that you hold up your hand to cover the left side of your screen. :)