Too Sexy For San Quentin
link Study: Attractive women overlooked for certain jobs – Yahoo! News.
Those damn glass ceilings. If not for the rampant discrimination embedded in western culture, we’d likely have more attractive female tow truck drivers and prison guards. Instead, all these plum jobs go to privileged overweight fat guys characterized by their equal amounts of hair and tattoos on body areas not including head. There’s no reason that a 110 pound Heidi Klum lookalike couldn’t keep unruly inmates in line, it’s only a matter of training. Also, it’s well known that most young girls, especially attractive ones, yearn to be tow truck drivers, but the prejudices of society prevent this from becoming a reality. Instead, they are forced into stereotypical and dead end jobs in modelling, sales, law or medicine.
Perhaps the time is right for more affirmative action. Young girls should be encouraged to aggressively pursue those jobs that have been off-limits to them just because of their comely appearance. Who would you rather have empty your trash; Vito the unibrow guy, or someone resembling Katherine Heigl tossing the cans around? If plumbers looked like Carla Gugino, I’d be throwing sand in my toilet weekly. But wait! This article goes on to note the following:
“… Johnson (the researcher) said beautiful people still enjoyed a significant edge when it came to the workplace. They tended to get higher salaries, better performance evaluations, higher levels of admission to college, better voter ratings when running for public office, and more favorable judgments in trials…”
So this is about plain greed and entitlements. The attractive people (women) have advantages in most other areas of the job market. It appears that they are trying to get ALL the jobs. It’s not as if the non attractives have access to the jobs given to the attractive job applicants. How many women who look like Michael Moore are featured in Got Milk commercials…or should? The not so attractive had better start organizing soon or else their employment opportunity window will be just a small slit. After all, there are only so many openings for daytime talk show hosts.