<p>She’s on Today now. She now claims that some of the things she said were tongue-in-cheek. I will say that she is more attractive on TV than in her pictures but, when my DH just saw her smile, he said she’d do better to keep her mouth closed due to her teeth.</p>
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<p>In other words, she lied.</p>
<p>But many of the author’s points remain valid. How do we know this? From looking at Royalty of course. When Kate Middleton married Prince Williams, her little sister Pippa who is prettier took the lime light away from Kate and thus ruined her wedding. There are rumors that Kate cries every day and night and even pays people to cry for her when she runs out of tears.</p>
<p>^^what an “interesting” world you must live in razor sharp.</p>
<p>razorsharp is kidding.</p>
<p>of course you could be kidding about his/her kidding too.</p>
<p>Lol, Razorsharp!!!</p>
<p>Even if this woman wrote this article tongue in cheek (and I don’t get that at all when I read it), she had to know what the back lash would be. It wouldn’t be worth it to me, even if it represented lots of money and notoriety.</p>
<p>In response to those that think that there is some merit to her point that beautiful people suffer, well, that makes them no different than anyone else on the planet. Some people are hobbled by unfortunate looks, weight issues, physical disabilities, bad personalities, ugly hair, ugly clothes…whatever. We are what we are and we get what we get and we all have the challenge of rising above those difficulties. Seriously, if I have to choose a “problem” to have, being beautiful would be my first choice. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to choose. :)</p>
<p>Also, just weighing in on Pippa vs. Kate. I think Kate is much prettier.</p>
<p>Pippa and Kate are stunning and classy. This lady is stuck up for no good, discernable reason. Very infatuated with her own imagined sense of self importance. I think she’s plain looking at best.</p>
<p>I remember reading something once about the difference between men and women, Men look in the mirror and see only things that are good. Women look and see only things that are wrong. Maybe this woman has more of a male sensibility about her looks. I wish I had a bit of that!</p>
<p>I have always taken note of an interesting phenomenon, though, in regard to women and their looks. I find that blonde women are forgiven a lot in the looks department and there is a higher standard for brunettes to be considered pretty or beautiful. I find that many men see that blond hair and it just doesn’t matter what comes with it.</p>
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<p>Something to do with instinctive fertility analysis from an article that I read a while ago.</p>
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<p>I’m highly skeptical. Other than in Northern Europe, how exactly would that play out in the rest of the world, where people don’t have blond hair and somehow seem to manage to be reasonably fertile even without it?</p>
<p>But I agree that there are some men who see a woman with blonde hair and that’s it; they think she’s beautiful and somehow don’t even register what her face looks like.</p>
<p>PS to SoccerGirl: I don’t think anyone said that ethnically English people are “ugly,” exactly. Just that they’re not known worldwide for their good looks! Besides, it’s probably better than it was back in the 1960’s or 1970’s or so, when I remember reading that the average person in Great Britain over the age of 40 has none of their own teeth left.</p>
<p>Anyone can be a blonde. So if you feel that you were ripped off because you are brunette, then change it and stop complaining.</p>
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Ha. Somebody sounds defensive. But I hope that wasn’t directed at me, because I’m hardly complaining – just making an observation. I’d look rather odd with blonde hair (at least to me), and it’s not like I’ve ever had much interest in attracting men anyway.</p>
<p>^No, it wasn’t directed at you DonnaL. </p>
<p>Most adult women who have blonde hair, color it that way.</p>
<p>I’m quite happy with gray. I just have a little coming in.</p>
<p>I wonder why women (and some men) bother coloring their hair. A lot of the women at the office just let it go gray.</p>
<p>This is a woman we don’t know. Why so negative?</p>
<p>BCEagle–I’m all gray and have been for years. I’ve tried coloring and it doesn’t work for me. I have nothing but respect for anyone who can make any look work.</p>
<p>I wish I could be one of those women who lets their hair go gray but it looks horrible on me. I have to color it.</p>
<p>Hair color use tends to be geographic. In some parts of the country, more women are natural. My area, most tend to color, though I notice that folk who work at the University don’t as much as where I work. Bethie, yours is lovely left natural. I’d go gray if some sort of nice salt and pepper.</p>
<p>About the blonde hair, I agree that blonde hair automatically bumps women up a few steps on the beauty scale. I saw Brick on a British television show, being interviewed by a man and a woman (who was much more attractive than Brick, but more low-key in her appearance), and Brick said that she’d been an ugly duckling as a child but she suddenly became “beautiful” without having done anything to achieve this except dye her hair blonde. If her life has been ruined by her “beauty,” then why doesn’t she let her hair go back to mousy brown or whatever?</p>
<p>The tone of this is pretty whiny, and quite honestly, I think the woman thinks a lot higher of herself then she is (she is not drop dead gorgeous, she is pretty, but not exactly a 1% in looks).</p>
<p>Women face a conundrum men don’t really face, and it hasn’t changed all that much. It is very true that good looking women often intimidate men and can have trouble getting dates because of that, men assume they are stuck up you know whats and are afraid of being rejected (ironically, this woman, who isn’t exactly that gorgeous, probably would be nasty to a man she didn’t like, I would bet money on it). </p>
<p>And while it is true in the workplace that looks do influence career advancement and such (for both men and women), it also for women can be a negative, because when women are attractive there is still the old stigma they must be dumb and gotten the job because someone lusted after them, and if they are talented and advanced it often is accompanied by inuendo why they advanced (based on my work career, anyway). Both men and women were likely to wag tongues when it came to someone good looking rising in the ranks. And yes, there are female managers in my experience who are jealous of better looking employees and do what she said, though to be honest in my experience those are not all that common, that the female managers I knew, knowing women still faced obstacles men didn’t, were actually a lot more protective of their employees, and also were quick to dispel myths that someone got ahead because they were ‘gorgeous’…</p>
<p>The thing about women being catty with gorgeous women I think is a bit overblown (as a married man of several decades experience), but there is some tension there if it is a gorgeous woman and she is very flirty with married men or has an attitude, but I think she overblows that (plus again,she comes off as narcisstic enough where I wonder if she actively flirts with men as if she was a goddess or looks down on women she feels aren’t as good looking as each other)…to be honest, what this article brings to mine is a narcissist in effect subject to “I think my lady doth protest too much”, it is basically a way of getting attention and saying “look how beautiful I am, it is such a burden” which translates to “Look at me, I am so beautiful”</p>