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by AstralStorm 3561 days ago
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.

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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.
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.