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males.<br />

Hot-or-not is how we are taught to evaluate women. There<br />

are individual exceptions, but the herd mentality is to value<br />

hotness above all else. It is the primary way society judges<br />

women.<br />

For example, a woman having a "great personality" is<br />

slang for being undesirable. no man is congratulated for having<br />

a girlfriend/wife with a "great personality."<br />

It is impossible for a woman to be praised for having a<br />

"great personality."<br />

For a sad honest picture of society, ask a sweet, smart,<br />

funny, heavy woman about her love life.<br />

Then consider the fact that in my high school, there was<br />

a girl who abused laxatives over the summer to lose a lot of<br />

weight. everyone knew this, but she looked hot. Her dating<br />

life took off. Hotness outweighs bulimia.<br />

Enough with the problem. Let's look at solutions:<br />

You need to live much of your life in an echo chamber of<br />

positive messages.<br />

Stop consuming mainstream culture.<br />

Turn off the TV. Rarely watch movies. Don't listen to pop<br />

music. Don't read magazines. once you start paying close attention<br />

to how women are portrayed, these media will lose<br />

much of their appeal, anyway. There is a clear message that<br />

hotness is a woman's primary worth.<br />

one of the greatest tragedies of American (and increasingly<br />

so, global) society is the fact that our culture is manufactured<br />

by lovers of buxom, bronzed, Botoxed, bottle-blonde<br />

bimbos. (even if women are intelligent, they won't be rewarded<br />

for displaying it. It's irrelevant that Shakira is in MenSA.)<br />

Hollywood is the most extreme example of praising females<br />

almost exclusively for their looks. A female can earn an<br />

acting award, but extreme hotness is a prerequisite to even<br />

being considered.<br />

Build your social world around common-interest niches.<br />

There is a broad spectrum of how much emphasis people<br />

place on attractiveness, so on a personal level, you have hopes<br />

of finding a respectful partner and true friends who value you<br />

for who you are, not how you look.<br />

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