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2009-07-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tipper 2009-07-27 15:06|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Ah, the kind of article that only a Brit newspaper would publish.

But I bet Tipper posted this so that we could snark.

Nope, not me, I know better :-)

Posted by Steve White 2009-07-27 15:35|| 2009-07-27 15:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I figured it was something about Beer Goggles

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-27 16:32|| 2009-07-27 16:32|| Front Page Top

#3 from the article,

"...The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female..."

The finding that beautiful women have a higher proportion of daughters than sons smells like BS.

Posted by Lord garth 2009-07-27 16:46|| 2009-07-27 16:46|| Front Page Top

#4 while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors

I feel better already. Now, where'd I put that mastodon bone. Oh yeah, over there on the sofa.

Posted by DMFD 2009-07-27 17:56|| 2009-07-27 17:56|| Front Page Top

#5 If women are evolving yet men are not, it seems that women must be competing more strongly for males than the reverse.

Fight bitches! Winner gets Moi!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-27 19:33|| 2009-07-27 19:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Umm, yea, the scientific evidence is a little dubious.

what about all the plain janes "forgetting" to take their pills who level the playing field?

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-07-27 20:48|| 2009-07-27 20:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps men are just getting less discriminating..... naw, impossible.

Posted by Percy Ulenter9784 2009-07-27 21:01|| 2009-07-27 21:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Men discriminate, Percy?

I thought as long as a woman was (usually) breathing.... ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-27 21:30|| 2009-07-27 21:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Right. As long as shes hot enough to have a temperature above 98 degrees, its all good. /sarc

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-07-27 22:14|| 2009-07-27 22:14|| Front Page Top

#10 bahh! That's why God gave us blowdryers and space heaters

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-27 22:24|| 2009-07-27 22:24|| Front Page Top

#11 All those wonderful anti-aging lotions now available in the drugstore's cosmetics aisle; relatively inexpensive and easily available plastic surgery; botox (not a look I appreciate properly, but some do); new and improved cosmetics, hair dyes, hair conditioners that curl or straighten or control frizziness, also available in the drugstore's cosmetics aisle... I worked briefly doing research in this area, and still have some contact with the field -- there's an awful lot of science behind "new and improved" in the beauty care sector, especially for the grocery/drug store beauty aisle products.

More women are more able to look attractive in the currently fashionable mode than ever before. That doesn't actually mean the women are more beautiful than heretofore.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-07-27 22:25|| 2009-07-27 22:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Wrong conclusion. Our idea of what's beautiful what's changing. Essentially the bar is lowering. Compare any of the old movie 'dames' with most of their modern counterparts.

Sure, Cameron Diaz isn't ugly and certainly way hotter than Ben Stein, but head-to-head against Hepburn or Liz Taylor...

Posted by Mike N. 2009-07-27 23:07|| 2009-07-27 23:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Compare and contrast...

http://glumbert.com/media/womenfilm

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-27 23:13|| 2009-07-27 23:13|| Front Page Top

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