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thenewgreen  ·  4831 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ugly? You may have a case
I work for a large organization and I'm racking my brain to think of someone at a "C" level position that would be in the bottom 1/3 of the "attractiveness" scale. -I can't.

Also, I can't help but think that this post by NotPhil is completely relevant: http://hubski.com/pub?id=3098





Wed7pm  ·  4831 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I won't try that video, I'm on a dial-up, but exactly: discrimination or prejudice against short people is probably a similar thing.

I couldn't decide whether to support that article's ideas or not. Even admitting that I might discriminate (or be discriminated against) because of "ugliness", and the idea that it's an objective category that could be set in law... it's weird. But then, if we humans actually are biased in this way, and these attitudes do have a measurable effect in the world, then maybe a legal category would bring the problem out into the open and we'd have to at least acknowledge we're doing it.

thenewgreen  ·  4831 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It could be a slippery slope :) http://hubski.com/pub?id=634
Wed7pm  ·  4831 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I read that Vonnegut thing years ago and thought he was saying one thing, then read something that analysed its politics, and ended up thinking he'd been saying something else entirely. In short: I dunno :)