Posted on 03/15/2005 7:27:20 AM PST by freepatriot32
If you were neglected as a child or if your parents paid more attention to your siblings, take heart.
It might not be your fault. It might be because you're ugly.
That's what Andrew Herrell's research at the University of Alberta suggests. Herrell, the director of the population research lab in the university's sociology department, studied parents' behaviour in grocery stores, where children often suffer minor injuries. He was trying to understand what factors contributed to those injuries.
What he found would stun most fair-minded parents - ugly kids were neglected more often than attractive ones.
"They'll deny it," said Herrell of most parents' reactions, but adds that 426 observations in 14 local supermarkets are telling.
Herrell and his colleagues followed parents and their 2- to 5-year-old kids around the grocery store for 10 minutes each. They checked if the adult buckled the child into the grocery cart seat, and how often the child wandered more than three metres away.
Only 1.2 per cent of the least attractive kids were buckled in, compared with 13.3 per cent of the most attractive kids. Uglier kids were also allowed to wander away more often than their cute cohorts.
Of course, ugly is subjective. Herrell and his research team judged it on a sliding 10-point scale, one being the Lyle Lovett of kids, 10 being Brad Pitt.
Edmonton Journal
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2005
It sounds more like WC Fields........or Winston Churchill.
Rush is setting this up now.
It's also ironic because objective standards of human beauty or perfection require a fixed human nature as a basis of judgment --the existence of which evolutionists deny.
How much you want to bet that a very high majority or warnings are to female motorists.
A good lawyer should be able to claim profiling and discrimination.
See? What did I tell you. These women are as ugly as they come!
Full disclosure: I've
read her book, and I've put up
a thread just for her!
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