I'm More Fuckable Than You (Feministly)
Women are more than their youth and beauty--unless they do something bad.
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and hot-person privilege, or the halo effect.
The halo effect is the idea that people attribute positive traits to physically attractive people, without actually knowing if these traits are true. Hot people are more likely to get job interviews or offers. They’re more likely to be perceived as smarter, funnier, or nicer. This can be partially attributed to increased confidence in good-looking people, but not entirely. And even in situations where an individual hot person (especially a woman) might be underestimated as a bimbo, she still reaps the rewards of being attractive, which will basically always outweigh the downsides. Even when hot people insist that’s not true—that being hot is just as much a curse as it is a blessing—you’ll notice they aren’t doing anything to appear less conventionally attractive, which is remarkably easy to do.
Anyway, this week, a woman made the rounds on Twitter (and presumably on other social media apps) for her good looks. Just one teensy problem: she was featured in NY Mag for an article about young Republicans:
She is attractive. Everyone knows she’s attractive! The only remarkable thing is how surprised some people are that A.) attractive women exist outside of Instagram and B.) they can be right wing. Even right wingers were shocked and thrilled to announce that "we’re back,” as if Republican women have been locked in Fiona-of-Shrek curses until Trump’s reelection. And not to get into the minutia of whether this woman is an 8.2 or an 8.5, but her good looks are only shocking in the context of her vivacious appearance on a magazine cover in a sea of tariff enjoyers (and even that, like I said, shouldn’t be surprising—well, apart from actually wanting the tariffs.)
Now, Republican as she may be, you would think that women on the left would know better than to criticize her appearance with the rabid enthusiasm of a horde of sweaty neckbeards. Oh, just kidding, of course they don’t know better!
I don’t want to open any other women up to the same looks-related vitriol (even if they’re being jerks) but many of the hate-comments toward the attractive Republican woman included selfies, proof they they were both more enlightened and hotter. And also, what’s the difference? Don’t you know bad politics makes you look old and ugly?
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