Stupid and Stupider

The research and the article

Sometimes news article have to dumb things down and over simplify statements to ensure that they do not ”lose” any of their readership on the way to the point of the story. Making something readable for pre-school dropouts is one thing, but writing something so that an alien baby can try to understand our culture is a bit over kill.

Physical attractiveness can have a significant impact on a woman’s life.

Can? That’s the best auxilliary verb you could find for that sentence? Weren’t comfortable with saying “does”? Did you forget you were writing to humans who know damn well what a woman’s attractiveness gets her in life? It’s like saying, “The earth can spin on its axis.”

Previous research has found that attractive individuals are more likely to get ahead in their jobs and bosses are more likely to treat good-looking staff more favourably.

Who is getting this research funded? Are you serious? Was this funded by the “Open Your Fucking Eyes” Research Grant?

Men and women also rate physical attractiveness as one of the most important traits when looking for a mate. Other important traits include breast size, height, body symmetry, muscularity and waist-to-hip ratio.

The first sentence is horrifically rudimentary and doesn’t need to be stated. If people don’t know this, they need to get back to the primordial soup. And the 2nd sentence? Beyond physical attractiveness the next important traits are boobs, body shape, height, and everything else about her physical make-up? Physical attractiveness can’t be the most important thing and simultaneously the top 5 most important things we find attractive in a mate otherwise supermodels would be rich and men would spend all their money trying to hump any bimbo with the brain function of galvanized steel. Oh wait…

Anyhow, the point of this research and the article was to tell us that,

Despite the perceptions of fashion magazines, researchers have found that most people do not find leggy women all that attractive.

This “research” is clearly hogwash. Who are “most” and what hobbit village do they live in? Everyone likes long legs on a girl. If you don’t, you also hate puppies. I read that somewhere.