Posted on 09/28/2012 8:18:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Time-rich psychologists in the USA say they have discovered that female Democratic politicians are significantly less feminine in appearance than Republican ones - so much so that it's often possible to tell which party a woman politico belongs to just by looking at her.
Michele Bachmann (Republican)
"I suppose we could call it the 'Michele Bachmann effect,'" says Kerri Johnson, assistant professor of communication studies and psychology at UCLA, who led the team producing this remarkable insight. Ms Bachmann is a Republican congresswoman whose features are rated as highly feminine.
According to a UCLA statement announcing the "research", actual computers and stuff were used to figure out how masculine or feminine someone's face is:
[The trick-cyclists] started the project by feeding portraits of 434 members of the 111th House of Representatives into a computer modeling program used by researchers in their field. Loaded with a database of hundreds of scans of faces of men and women, the FaceGen Modeler allows researchers to measure how much the details of any one face approach the average for either gender ...
Rosa Delauro (Democrat)
The faces of Republican women rated, on average, twice as sex-typical — or feminine — as those of Democratic women.
And a survey among undergraduate volunteers showed that you can actually tell what party a US lady politico is by gauging how feminine she appears:
In fact, the relationship is so strong that politically uninformed undergraduates were able to determine the political affiliation of the representatives with an overall accuracy rate that exceeded chance, and the accuracy of those predications increased in direct relation to the lawmaker's proximity to feminine norms.
"Female politicians with stereotypically feminine facial features are more likely to be Republican than Democrat, and the correlation increases the more conservative the lawmaker's voting record," adds Colleen M Carpinella, a UCLA graduate student in psychology.
We're told that feminine-featured Republican examples include Kay Granger (Texas), Cathy Rodgers McMorris (Washington) and Michele Bachmann (Minnesota). Comparatively masculine-looking Democrat congresswomen include Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (South Dakota), Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut) and Anna G Eshoo (California). The trick-cyclists' paper is to be published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Perhaps interestingly, Democrat congressmen also appeared more masculine than Republican ones.
"It may be unnecessary for Republican men to exhibit masculinity through their appearance," Carpinella commented. ®
Republican women enjoy being women. We are content with who we are.
There are too many Democrat hotties to remember them all. Gimme a break! Don’t forget that while Janet Reno and Donna Shalala may be long in the tooth now, in their day they broke many a man’s heart. Or at least the hearts of women trying to look like men. Bob
It’s the difference in communism and a free society. Repressive societies seem to produce very weathered looking women. I don’t think I need to show leftists pictures to prove this.
I was an election worker one time for a primary election. I played my own little mental game as people walked up to cast their votes. I’d guess whether they were going to vote in the Democrat primary or the Republican primary. I guessed correctly about 90% of the time.
The Republican voters were neat and orderly, they had their registration and ID ready without being asked and almost never complained about the process.
The Democrat voters were more sloppily dressed, did not form a straight line, had to be told to get out registration and ID, acted like they resented having to present them and some complained about the entire process, making comments about Diebold and fixed voting even though the machines were not from Diebold.
I've always thought that envy had a lot to do with the low ratings among women for Palin, Bachman, Coulter, Malkin, Ingram, Haley, Love, Martinez, Bondi, and even the various FOX faces.
Combining capable and female seems to irritate liberals.
Nimoy looks better.
Yeah I'm very pleased to know that I was taken in by a hoax. Simonetta Stefanelli lives!
Is that Maddow computer aged?
When I was in high school, the teacher in our English class asked who supported abortion and who was against abortion.
When the hands went up, I was blown away. I whispered to my neighbor the obvious - all the hot babes (including Joanne, the hottest) were pro-life, and all the ugly ones were pro-abortion. I remember one of the pro-abortion ‘girls’ seeing me whisper and being able to figure out what I said - she sneered.
Same with Leftie news commentators,talking heads and the likes.Either ugly or queer.
guess which party?
a real heartbreaker
If any of those Democratic women had been required to earn their offices on merit, they would have had to work much, much harder to acquire an actual skill set first. Bringing to the debate a kindergarten-level understanding of humanity and the world and bellowing like a moose about injustice, unlimited abortion, and spending more on schools wouldn't be enough to get them elected Chair of the local Oprah Winfrey book club. :)
The dems do have some fugly wimmins ...
Be still my heart! *sigh* Bob
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