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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 16, 2023

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This works in large part because you wouldn't have asked us to guess if it had been the other way around.

Yeah I would've. I love misdirection and anti-humour as much as I love making fun of ugly people.

More effort, less obnoxious jeering and dunking.

Standard physiognomy win, nice

I'm not going to confidential state that bioleninism is true. But it might be.

Don't read too much into it. It was 50/50 that the better person would have been more attractive and if it had gone the other direction he just wouldnt have brought it up

More than that, if you google the "nice one," the second picture you find of her is much less attractive. OP chose his photos intentionally. Which, hey, fun trick.

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Is this really a dunk? Both photos still substantially more attractive than the other woman, even if she's less presented in the one you've just linked.

No accounting for taste I guess. Both land so far left of the swipe line for me that the comparison is irrelevant, and I typically have pretty loose standards.

Not saying she's some vision of loveliness but like nice pic was her as a 7.5, less-nice pic was her as a 6 and the other woman a 3 to me

Interesting. No accounting for taste I guess.

Yeah, seriously, 'physiognomy' as it's used on the internet is mostly socially distributed selection bias. Every time I've tried to get an unbiased independent sample of two groups where one is claimed to be more attractive because they're morally better, there wasn't a difference. Whether that's 'historical reactionaries (claimed to be more attractive)', 'left-wing extremists (claimed to be less attractive)', etc.

There's a modest association between physical attractiveness and intelligence (poor health reduces both), and I think a bunch of subtler relationships between various ways one looks and various clusters of human behavior, but ~ all of the e-right claims about it in the current year are just comically false.

I agree that you can't correlate inherent attractiveness to politics, but in this case, the author has that lesbian/feminist look and alexis the traditionnally feminine. One of them is trying to appeal to men visually and the other isn't (if not repel them). Maybe the "male gaze" doesn't even enter into it, they are just straightforwardly signaling their politics through their looks. In any case, given the details, it's not 50/50 at all as to who is likely to be who.

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