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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am with you, OP. Women are almost made to downplay or feel ashamed of their beauty. Personally I appreciate physical beauty and consider it a gift to humanity - who doesn't like a gorgeous face!? [/quote]

This is total BS.  Women use their beauty if they have it to get ahead/get what they want.

Gift to humanity?  It won't cure cancer.[/quote]

What you say is BS. I am beautiful and it has never been something I've "used" to get ahead. [/quote]

Not the PP, but the thing is that it's possible (and highly likely) that even if you didn't use it intentionally to get ahead, it has most certainly benefited you.

There have been studies done on this.  Two people of equal skill and capability go in for an interview, the more attractive one will usually get the job.  (Now, in some environments, dressing too "sexy" if you are a woman will hurt you getting a job or getting ahead, but I don't think that has anything to do with beauty.  I think that is kind of a different topic of expected norms, weird views on/fears of women's sexuality, etc.).[/quote]

Studies like that need to control for the gender of the interviewer. If you as a woman go to an interview and you are distinctly more attractive than the woman interviewing you, forget it. It is definitely better odds if the interviewer is opposite gender.[/quote]

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