A Non-Sports Post

Check out this link to Braces.com. In the left hand column they have a topic called:

BENEFITS OF LOOKING ATTRACTIVE

So I click on the link to see just what benefits people who look attractive have over hermits like me:

Beauty/Style/Grace/Looking Good

So one of the benefits of looking attractive is...that you look attractive. Got it. What else?

For many people, attractiveness is very important, and almost everyone will agree that being attractive can have a positive impact.

So again, the benefit of looking attractive is...that you look attractive. Alright.

This next part is great:

From Marilyn Monroe to today's latest Divas and Hollywood Idols, Americans are obsessed with beauty. Adults are seeking Invisalign, and school children often are anxious to get their Braces started.

Yes, your children could grow up to be like Marilyn Monroe, who's dead, or Francis Farmer, who's dead, or even Lindsey Lohan (who I have in a death pool this year, fingers crossed!).

And you have to read the 4-steps in the stereotyping process that ensures beauty equals goodness.

1) Most people felt that discriminating against the ugly is not fair, but yet…

How is that sentence a step? It's more of an observation with a caveat.

2) Privately, most of us simply take it for granted that attractive and unattractive people are different. Most often we perceive that attractive people have the more desirable traits.

So they're saying that attractive and unattractive people ARE different? Do they mean from each other? Also I don't see how that is a step.

3) As a consequence, we treat good-looking versus ugly people quite differently; the good looking get the better treatment.

Well apparently YOU treat them differently. I'm sure pretty people get better treatment from society, no doubt. But on an individual basis I don't think I treat them differently. So is that the first step? Treating everyone the same way?

4) How does such prejudice affect the victims of our discrimination? Over time a sort of “self fulfilling prophecy” occurs. The way we treat attractive versus unattractive people shapes the way they think about themselves and, as a consequence, the kind of people they become.

That's right all you sarcastic, Arrested Development-worshipping, rock snobs. And you RPG playing, self-mutilating, goth losers. You're living out a self-fulfilling prophecy. One that could be changed if you only had braces. Though I did have them. And I still watch Arrested Development while wearing my Archers Of Loaf shirt, while listening to David Cross perform, while putting on my eyeliner, while playing Everdark, while sticking needles in my arm. It was a busy night.

Case Closed!