GI plain Janes better for Army promotional material?

foxnews.com ^ | 11/20/2013

[RoosterRedux]

Calling all “average-looking women.”

That’s the appeal reportedly being made by an Army unit examining how to introduce women to combat roles. According to a report in Politico, one specialist recently voiced concern that too many “pretty” women are being used in promotional material – giving an inaccurate picture, the colonel claimed, about the nature of the job.

Col. Lynette Arnhart, in an email to colleagues, asked for photos of plainer Janes to be used.

“There is a general tendency to select nice looking women when we select a photo to go with an article,” the email said, according to Politico. “It might behoove us to select more average looking women for our comms strategy.”

But Arnhart apparently went further, making some generalizations that have generated controversy.

She reportedly wrote that “in general, ugly women are perceived as competent while pretty women are perceived as having used their looks to get ahead.”

[RoosterRedux]

Sounds like Affirmative Action, eh?

[jocon307]

Maybe they should use super-hot Israeli like babes. (I’m a girl, but just my 2 cents.)

[Alberta's Child]

If you really want to win a war before it even starts, just put out PR material and ads indicating that every female in the U.S. military looks like Idi Amin.

[EricT.]

Maybe they should form up a mulleted dyke brigade.

[dfwgator]

Maybe they should form up a mulleted dyke brigade.

Rush beat you to it.

[GeronL]

There is an Army organization deciding who is too pretty for literature?

and yet they want to cut their pay?

[fhayek]

It’s a good thing a woman was saying these things. This is a swamp no man wants to wade into.

[Baynative]

[smokingfrog]

They need to look good without makeup. Probably won’t have time for that in a combat zone.

[shove_it]

Whatever ...

http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2011/04/28/real-non-sexy-women-in-uniform-32-hq-photos/

[BerryDingle]

My team years ago had a WAC in it. She had buck teeth so bad she could eat corn-on-the-cob through a snow fence.

[shove_it]

This one looks like she could be deceptively deadly at a certain time of the month ...

[dfwgator]

"He shot my hair...Son of a b----!"

[Venturer]

Bring out the dogs and the dykes.

[Rembrandt]

This proves once again that Rush Limbaugh was right in his inalienable rights list.

[Wanderer99]

Dumbass Democrat would be angry regardless of what the Army Colonel said. They just hate the military unconditionally.

[Wanderer99]

If you really want to win a war before it even starts, just put out PR material and ads indicating that every female in the U.S. military looks like Idi Amin.

LMAO!

[Monitor]

Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?

Vasquez: No. Have you?

[alexander_busek]

According to a report in Politico, one specialist recently voiced concern that too many “pretty” women are being used in promotional material – giving an inaccurate picture, the colonel claimed, about the nature of the job.

What? They don't want to use anorexic supermodels for their ads depicting "grunts" crawling through the mud?

Regards,