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I imagine it's likely because intelligence will actually influence your capacity to do your job in the vast majority of cases, whilst appearance will not. I und
by etherael 16y ago
I imagine it's likely because intelligence will actually influence your capacity to do your job in the vast majority of cases, whilst appearance will not. I understand in instances where this is not the case, such as hooters waitresses, they do actually openly discriminate based on attractiveness.
- Jun8 16y agoI wasn't talking about Hooter's waitresses and other such jobs, e.g. playmates :-) Why do you think that in the vast majority of cases appearance will not influence your output? I think this is a clear fallacy: Although you attractiveness may not influence the work you do, the additional qualities you develop over the years because your attractive, like high self-esteem, may be very important and relevant to the workspace.
- etherael 16y agoHold on, you say that it's a clear fallacy that your attractiveness does not influence your output, and then you directly claim afterward that your attractiveness may not influence the work you do? That was my original point, so it seems much like you're saying I'm wrong and then restating my original point. The problem I have with regards to your secondary argument, that attractiveness contributes to self esteem and is thus important and relevant to the workplace as a contributing factor towards building soft skills is that it equally promotes simple narcissism. Full disclosure; I think that we may just be getting over a long standing hangover where "touchy feely" attributes of a person were valued over their actual aptitude and intellect and I'm quite happy not to see us sliding back into that particular arena and being surrounded by pleasant but incompetent people