Oh! almost forgot. Congrats Shir! On the awesome group, and good luck with the summer thing!

I've kicked enough guys in the nads to know I don't want testicles. No doubt on my part. Punch me in the tits if you want. I don't care.

Daisy, you make being female sound very bleak. I don't think it's sexism every time a guy responds positively to my looks. Sometimes, just sometimes. And I've seen enough women give power to good looking men that I'm not going to pretend it's a male province. They don't always have all the power.

I never really had to compare myself to a guy until I got to university. Spent a lot of time in female dominated space, from school to home. And then it was too late. My mother is a scientist. I had all the geek things I could ever have wanted. I think my mother would worry about who's going to take care of me even if I were a boy.

I totally don't understand the land lease thing. That would freak me out, the uncertainty of what would happen at the end of the lease (even if the likelihood was that I wouldn't be there then).

...I don't have the mental energy to get into the fairness of pretty, right now.

But that study ONLY used looks as a criteria for voting. People are evaluating more than that.

Sure, but you can control for other factors. There's always more going on in an individual case, but that's why you build up stats over multiple observations. And when you do that, including when you control for other factors, you still get the consistent result: better-looking people do better, in everything from winning votes to getting a higher salary to the paramedics spending longer trying to resuscitate you when you flatline.

Well, sometimes you are just too pretty for a paramedic to let you die.

Or for God to let you die.

Are they voting for the dude based on the fact that he's tall and good looking? I think that's a way oversimplification.

remember Dan Quayle? (snerk)

But there have been studies showing that attractive people not only do better socially, but also tend to get raises, promotions, better performance evaluations, and so on. And, being attractive and being treated as being better than the non-attractive, probably engenders a sense of confidence, that amplifies the effect.

Also, Shir - there was an article in the paper's Sunday travel section about street harassment while traveling and there was a mention of Hollaback Israel.

I've kicked enough guys in the nads to know I don't want testicles. No doubt on my part. Punch me in the tits if you want. I don't care.

I would not so much say that I don't want testicles as I don't want to be kicked in the testicles. And I would say that, quite possibly loudly and frantically as circumstances warrant.

Personally, I'd rather not be kicked anywhere.

And I would say that, quite possibly loudly and frantically as circumstances warrant.

Oh, they told me not to do it. But I did it anyway. Not having testicles is probably safer where I'm concerned.

I loved the guy who'd trade me a tit punch for every groin shot (he, by the way, was so good looking that a bunch people treated him like shit because they figure he got everything he wanted). Hello! I'll do this all day. Square up and let's go.