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How Outdated Beauty Standards Fueled Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Sorokin's Scams
Yahoo ^ | 4-14-22 | Baker

Posted on 04/16/2022 3:01:04 PM PDT by wardaddy

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To: wardaddy

Google what?


61 posted on 04/16/2022 5:16:22 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The thing about Holmes’s con was that I did not pay any attention to the saga after I heard the pitch the first time - because I knew what she was selling was impossible, absurdly so, in fact.


62 posted on 04/16/2022 5:20:08 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: Wiser now

Excuse me, but it’s Madison Ave. and all those liberals in the advertising business that have pushed the thin blonde standard on us for decades. Remember Twiggy?


Well, you can say its “Madison Ave” that pushed it. But probably they just leveraged a well-established tendency.

I can’t recall any straight man (of any ethnicity) that does not covet a thin, blonde, blue-eyed woman (TBBEW). It’s just universal. Now that does not mean other women cannot be beautiful (plenty are). But there is just something about a TBBEW that elevates them to the pinnacle of female beauty. Also, they are in relatively short supply.

Which is why so many women color their hair blond (yes, they do).

BTW, as I’ve aged, I’ve grown to appreciate Asian women too. Something I did not do when I was younger.


63 posted on 04/16/2022 5:20:25 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: wardaddy

Crazy eyes.


64 posted on 04/16/2022 5:21:11 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: Drew68

Both Michelle Phillips and Julie Newmar were always the pinnacle of female hotness to me.


65 posted on 04/16/2022 5:24:11 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: wardaddy
The Dale Was a Car Implosion to Rival DeLorean, With a Founder More Controversial Than Elon Musk

Was it a scam? Was the lady who started the company really a woman, a transvestite, or a transsexual? Interesting story, with many unanswered questions, like the 2 I presented.

Elizabeth Carmichael and the Dale car
Who are "The Lady and the Dale" from the new HBO doc? Meet Elizabeth Carmichael and her car.

The Dale car from Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation
The Dale, in all its three-wheeled glory.

66 posted on 04/16/2022 5:28:19 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: KevinB

Maybe the author can explain this? But I doubt she wants to.

https://theconversation.com/women-of-color-spend-more-than-8-billion-on-bleaching-creams-worldwide-every-year-153178


67 posted on 04/16/2022 5:28:25 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Jim Noble
Yep.

I have been told I was too skeptical and too old to understand how miraculous new technology is.

What I find miraculous is how credulous the human race continues to be.

68 posted on 04/16/2022 5:28:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: alternatives?

We have two powerful women (Harris, Brown-Jackson) of color who have white husbands. Did they use “white privilege” to get where they are? (IMHO there are many other more qualified women of color)


69 posted on 04/16/2022 5:30:38 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: Grampa Dave
This may be a DNA trait and/or the ability to sense B$ before most people do. It is also a skill that can be honed and perfected.

You'd be surprised how many times I've asked a liberal to prove something they've said and it shuts them right down.

70 posted on 04/16/2022 5:35:32 PM PDT by guitar Josh
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To: Jim Noble

Perfect right?


71 posted on 04/16/2022 5:47:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (Faulkner never knew Free Republic but he coined its nickname...The Sound and The Fury)
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To: rbg81
Thin, blond and White is not beautiful anymore.

That's right. This is beautiful:


72 posted on 04/16/2022 6:05:44 PM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: alternatives?
A lot of black guys prefer white women. Whose fault is that?

Social media and white soi bois.

73 posted on 04/16/2022 6:15:12 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: EEGator

They’re sisters


74 posted on 04/16/2022 6:16:22 PM PDT by Az Joe (Biden is the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: rbg81

I won’t argue your point because I was privileged to live it for a number of years, including the (reasonably) thin part until I had my fourth baby.
I’m now 76, my hair is mostly silver white, and I still get looks from men. It amazes me.


75 posted on 04/16/2022 7:41:40 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: wardaddy

If the beauty standard was outdated, their looks wouldn’t have worked for them.

So, it isn’t outdated.

Neither are the adages, beauty is only skin deep, pretty is as pretty does, and you can’t trust a book by its cover.


76 posted on 04/16/2022 8:30:05 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: heartwood

Cultural insanity 2022

Never ends

I had a conversation with a young woman tonite claimed she has a girlfriend

Petite beautiful feminine girl

I told her you’re no more lesbian than I am

You’re a cutie poseur lesbian cause it’s cool or you got daddy issues and are in rebellion

Maybe you’ll wake up sooner rather than later

It’s ridiculous

This neurosis we exist with propagated by culture and social media control

Lbgtq arguably the most strident and powerful power out there

Their bot brigade will attack


77 posted on 04/16/2022 9:33:06 PM PDT by wardaddy (Faulkner never knew Free Republic but he coined its nickname...The Sound and The Fury)
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To: wardaddy

Yea, because attractive black women have never used men for their money…

What insanity


78 posted on 04/16/2022 9:43:10 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: webheart

Yes, outdated beauty standards, what an UTTER PILE OF NONSENSE.


79 posted on 04/17/2022 1:03:34 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: ChildOfThe60s

She looks exactly like a very young Coretta Scott King to me.


80 posted on 04/17/2022 1:23:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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