Posted on 10/07/2012 3:38:33 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
They’re calling it the Michele Bachmann effect. And no, it’s not the Minnesota congresswoman’s crusade to ban falafel from public schools. It refers to the relationship between a woman’s politics and her face.
Allison Yarrow hit the Highline to see if people could tell a difference between Democratic and Republican female politicians.
Women politicians with “stereotypical feminine facial features” are more often Republicans, found researchers at UCLA]. And the more feminine their features, the more conservative their voting records. They also found the reverse—that women with more masculine facial features tended to be Democrats. Less gender-typical visages tracked with more liberal voting records. The correlation between face and party ideology was stronger for Republican women politicians than Democrats.
Psychology Professor Kerri Johnson and graduate student Colleen Carpinella applied computer modeling to pictures of the entire 111th U.S. Congress to determine which facial features and the spacing between them connote a more masculine or more feminine face. They then asked college students to look at the 434 portraits and guess which women belonged to each party—and they pegged Republican women correctly 98 percent of the time. Johnson and Carpinella posit that the reason for these facial correlations in women politicians stem from perceived gender roles entrenched in each party’s DNA.
"The Democratic Party is associated with social liberal policies that aim to diminish gender disparities, whereas the Republican Party is associated with socially conservative policy issues that tend to bolster traditional sex roles," Johnson said in a UCLA release.
The trend did not apply to male politicians in the same way. Male Republican faces “scored less masculine” than Democrats, but the researchers found this less interesting than the data about women because they said male politicians are less likely to “exhibit masculinity through their appearance” than through their actions.
This experiment
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The pic on the left tells the true story. The other one, if for real, is about the best pic I’ve seen of Moosehell. Maybe she just happens to look best with her head down like that.
That one might be my favorite pic of her.
damn, woman. what you smuggling back there?
Janeane Garofolo
A female?
Hmmm...
Are you sure?
The one on the left is photoshopped nd is “fake but accurate” :-)
And THAT is AFTER the facelift!
It is a reflection of their soul.
This writer, Allison Yarrow, is just a young leftist airhead, surpassed in stupidity only by the passersby on the street in New York she recruited for her video interviews. Wouldn't be surprised if she's related to Peter Yarrow, the lefty folk singer of "Peter, Paul, and Mary" fame.
In her story, Ms. Yarrow talks about Michelle Bachmann's alleged crusade to ban falafel from public schools. When I first saw that, I thought it was just something made up out of thin air to tar Bachmann, since it's the left that generally gets into using government to dictate school children's diets. Turns out my intuition was correct and that Yarrow was just rumor-mongering.
The story about Bachmann's desire to ban falafel was part of an Internet satire originating on a left wing blog and picking up adherents in their blogosphere. There was absolutely no truth to it. The myth was that Bachmann claimed that banning falafel would make sure that youngsters would not be exposed to "jihadi food" and therefore would be less likely to grow into terrorists. But aside from her conservative disinclinations toward government meddling in school diets, Bachmann (who spent some time in Israel as a youngster) would probably know better than her critics that falafel, rather than being a "jihadi food," is every bit as popular in Israel as it is in the Arab world, and so her (hypothetical) advocating its ban could be considered harmful to US-Israeli relations.
my wife would never...never never ever get on or off a private jet dressed like that Amazon on the right ..never
and yes she’s been on private jets ..not all that common but happens
at least something cute like Isabel Marant or something even if casual
that is hideous..my Carhartt looks better than that
“my wife would never...never never ever get on or off a private jet dressed like that Amazon on the right ..never”
Me, either.
“and yes she’s been on private jets ..not all that common but happens”
Me, too.
The fact that she treats our taxpayer money as casually as that, or as an “in your face...I’ve never been as proud of this country before”...tells me that she has absolutely NO respect for taxpayers.
She’s throwing her “position” back at us, in our faces.
Frankly, I think she is more Marxist, and entitled, than her addled brained husband.
I think felafel was invented by shephardi Jews — not the Arab Lebanese.
Man, I’d take Aunt Esther over Michelle Obama any day! Aunt Esther was a God fearing righteous woman who never took no lip from Fred or Grady! She’s the kind of moral woman we need in this country right now.
A lot of the reason why we have so many unattractive Dem women is the feminist sense of entitlement: "We don't need to stay in shape and take care of ourselves to attract men! We don't need men!"
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