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[quote=Anonymous]This has the potential to be really offensive, but.....

At a dinner at our house the other night, one of the guests postulated that more attractive women go into fields requiring less "work," such as (with all due respect, I'm repeating his words) being a pharamaceutical rep or marketing type of person rather than a "hard" field (as he put it), like law, medicine, computer science.  (This is exclusing the 1% truly beautiful people who go into modeling or other similar things as they should because they're freakishly attractive.)

I found this deeply sexist and insulting, and also, in real life, just very wrong.  Thinking of the women in my own "hard field" to the dozens of women who I grew up with, this dichotomy of ugly goes into harder fields and pretty into easy fields just doesn't hold true on any meaningful level.  Career decisions are complicated and influenced by many things - your family, upbringing, drive, wishes, DREAMS - and to boil it down to "pretty women can work a lot less" seemed not only insulting but just untrue.

Wondering, though, if I'm just being politically correct or something, or if my being a feminist is blinding me to a basic reality.   Please don't go thinking back to the 10 pretty and unattractive girls you knew in high school and then say "oh yeah, he's right" (or wrong), please think about this with me, and give me some good reasons why his argument is really simplistic and stupid.  Or if you're a neanderthal who agrees with him, give me good reasons why you think so.  [/quote]

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