Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I've always wondered...what's the diff what a prophet/messiah/leader looks like?
Okay, so it's been said that Confuscious was a nerdy guy that nobody liked when he was alive. Still? A 3rd of the world's religions based on stuff he is supposed to have said.
In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell talks about CEOs being tall.
So what?
Did Gandhi get taken less seriously because he was short?
I don't get it.
t /afraid of heightism
eta: calm tummy `ma to Megan. Good luck!
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I'm hip to the biological need for male leaders to appear strong and capable of providing well. But in this, post-industrial age, it just does not make sense to me.
George W. Bush is proof that the taller presidential candidate does not always win. (I mean, there had to be a limit eventually, or else Gigantor would be president, but 6'4" is not really Out There in terms of height any more.)
There is a halo effect, where people who are pretty are assumed to be smart/competent/worthwhile solely on the basis of their being pretty. But, there are plenty of charismatic people who are funnylooking, and the funnylookingness is part of what makes them distinct from the sea of pretty sameness. Short, skinny, and sorrowful-looking Humphrey Bogart, for example. (Not that he ever ran a cult or a Fortune 500 company.)
Oh dear, Gud. I'm sorry things are hard. (Does it help that I almost always type your name "God" the first time?)
It's just a male face?
A male face with long hair.
Good luck, Megan!
All the calm in the world to you, Megan.
6'4" is not really Out There in terms of height any more
Hey! I thought 6'6" was gigantic!
George W. Bush is proof that the taller presidential candidate does not always win.
Even still, they had to give him a Scully box to stand on during the debates.
Does it help that I almost always type your name "God" the first time?
It's an easy mistake to make.
George W. Bush is proof that the taller presidential candidate does not always win.
But a lot of his image is that he's tough on the terrorists, doesn't listen to the polls, takes on the tough issues, that sort of stuff.
Good luck, Megan!
It is unpleasantly sticky outside today. The approaching thunderstorm needs to get here soon.
So, he's not tall, but his muscles are enormous!!
Although I would have paid cash money to watch an Outdoor Games presidential competition -- log-rolling, tree-climbing (with those little toe-pitons and a rope), log-chopping and -chainsawing --, I think that probably John Kerry would have won hands down. He is a sports-freak.
Also, I don't want to see either Kerry or Bush in shorts. It is a thing.