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Life Is Hard for Incredibly Handsome Men
New York Magazine ^ | 4/23/2015 | Allison P. Davis

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: beauty; hard; incrediblyhandsome; life; males; men; newyorkmagaxine; nymag; psychology
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I have been telling people this for years, but no one would listen to me......
1 posted on 04/23/2015 4:17:00 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

It’s a burden. (Sigh!) Yes, a burden...


2 posted on 04/23/2015 4:17:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Beave Meister

Finally someone understands our burden....


3 posted on 04/23/2015 4:18:50 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: Billthedrill

You @#@#$!! beat me by three minutes!


4 posted on 04/23/2015 4:19:09 PM PDT by dp0622 (Franky Five Angels: "Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle.")
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To: Billthedrill

It has made life that much harder for me...and Laz.


5 posted on 04/23/2015 4:19:43 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: Beave Meister

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!


6 posted on 04/23/2015 4:20:46 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Beave Meister

My handsomality has always been my cross to bear...


7 posted on 04/23/2015 4:23:17 PM PDT by Paisan
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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.


9 posted on 04/23/2015 4:24:18 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Beave Meister
Some people live easy lives...


10 posted on 04/23/2015 4:25:58 PM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: South40

It’s Alan from a Bug’s Life!


11 posted on 04/23/2015 4:27:40 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: LegendHasIt

12 posted on 04/23/2015 4:27:49 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: LegendHasIt

I’m both, so imagine my struggle.


13 posted on 04/23/2015 4:27:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Beave Meister

I find it to be such a burden to bear. ;-)


14 posted on 04/23/2015 4:28:08 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Beave Meister

As an incredibly handsome man I eliminated all these problems and started my own business.


15 posted on 04/23/2015 4:28:21 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Beave Meister

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.


16 posted on 04/23/2015 4:28:22 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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Nobody knows the sorrow I’ve seen...


18 posted on 04/23/2015 4:29:53 PM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: Beave Meister

I’m still looking for that lady that likes me for more than my looks.

But lookin IS kinda fun...


19 posted on 04/23/2015 4:30:09 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: Beave Meister; Larry Lucido

People assume you are a mimbo.


20 posted on 04/23/2015 4:30:30 PM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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