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As others have mentioned, brain vs. brawn is a false cultural dichotomy, and a particular female variant is brain vs. beauty (or if you're sexist, then you call
by lusus_naturae 3y ago
As others have mentioned, brain vs. brawn is a false cultural dichotomy, and a particular female variant is brain vs. beauty (or if you're sexist, then you call them a bimbo instead of beautiful). Beautiful women often have to wear a nerd costume to be taken seriously in academic or engineering professions.
- yieldcrv 3y ago> or if you're sexist, then you call them a bimbo instead of beautiful a lot of people that optimize for beauty as their only marketable skill self identify under the bimbo moniker to find goods, services, community and to be found there is market demand for differentiators, and many cater to that being on the demand side or merely acknowledging those in the supply side of that market doesnt make someone sexist so its not enough information from simply using the term
- lusus_naturae 3y agoYou're right, but I wasn't talking about people who optimize for beauty. I was talking about women who merely are beautiful and have to apply all sorts of non-make up to appear like they belong in academia or engineering.
- yieldcrv 3y agoah, okay, yes, everyone should treat each other as individuals
- xboxnolifes 3y ago> or if you're sexist, then you call them a bimbo instead of beautiful As far as I was ever aware, bimbo always meant pretty and stupid. In the same way that nerd is awkward and smart, or jock is fit and dumb.
- jncfhnb 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson's_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson's_paradox