Re: social success predictor-physical attractiveness

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On 4/16/06, Lolz wrote:
> Physical attractiveness is a huge factor in anything. Look at
> the young women attorneys at any biglaw firm, in fact go check
> out the websites. The young women are hottttttttttttttttttt.
>
> Denying this is foolish. Get in shape, especially if you are
> ugly. At least you will be fit. That counts.
>

I have to put my two cents worth in: the firms advertising are
always going to use the best looking associates on their
websites and in their advertisements. Everyone does this.
Where I worked before a group that was going to be advertising
came to my unit and told me I was to change assignments for a
couple of hours. Then they brought in the youngest prettiest
person on duty and put her in my place to shoot the stills and
commercial. Misleading? don't know, seems like it but what
they hey, they weren't actually advertising me they were
advertising the service. Insulting to me, hell yeah. Insulting
to any professional that doesn't look like a movie star? F***
yeah. And this was done by a group of women none under 40 and
none of whom would be considered attractive! Ladies, we do it
to each other, why would anyone be surprised that the guys do it
too? The mega firms can afford to hire the smart AND pretty
ones. Of course they exploit that. They put the homely and
overweight ones in the back row of the picture or leave them out
completely. Same with guys as women, you never see any fat
slobs on the website but you sure as heck see them in court.
Remember all the hoopla at the beginning of the OJ trial about
Marcia Clark and her hair? It's a fact of life we all just have
to deal with. being enlightened, I myself try very hard not to
judge a book by its cover or a law firm by how attractive the
associates are.