[acaciapalm]

That's an over the top rant, but as a woman I agree with her basic premise: the "women are less visual" thing is a total lie and tied neatly into the "women desire sex less than men" lie.

Looks are important to many women just as they are important to many men. There's nothing to be ashamed of and there is no point in denying human sexuality.

[throw2016]

Its not provocative. Its silly and absurd. Stating you have visual preferences is like stating you prefer oxygen. This is innate and widely accepted as normal and unremarkable across human society.

Is there an underlying assumption 'women are less visual'? It's seems like a bit of a straw man because no one can and should generalize.

The next bits about 'knowing your place' puts the author in the enlightening company of a cave man teling women to 'know their place'. I wonder how many will be lining up to defend that.

Self proclaiming yourself as 'good looking' is problematic in itself because this is purely subjective beyond a 1% that everyone widely agree on. To then use this self created pedestal to dismiss and reduce others suggests a unnatural degree of narcissism and likely necessitates a large leap from reality.

[acaciapalm]

>Is there an underlying assumption 'women are less visual'? It's seems like a bit of a straw man because no one can and should generalize.

There is, at least in American culture. It is wrong of course.

[millstone]

Honest question: did you actually read past the first two paragraphs?

I am astonished that any educated person could lend any support whatsoever to an article that uses terms like "genetic superiors." The premise is that only beautiful people are human beings.

[AstralStorm]

Not are. Are perceived as such by the surveyed set of women.

Specifically, an ugly solicitor elicits a reaction comparable to a zombie in some women. This is generally a subconscious reaction belying sexual selection. Extreme but it happens. Less extreme version is tied to disgust feeling.

The root is probably the same: detecting contagious people and animals.

[millstone]

Then the article should be about the inexcusable reactions of these women, instead of blaming ugly men for thinking they get to be human too.

[cLeEOGPw]

The reactions are non-voluntary and humans evolved this way. And since it's in our genes that our women are predisposed to feel like ugly people are genetically inferior, that is enough proof to say that they really are in a certain circumstances, specifically where sexual selection is the deciding factor in the success of reproduction. We live at the times where sexual selection trumps all other factors by a large margin, so people who are not desirable because of things they may not have control of, because they are genetic, they can be called genetically inferior.