I've always assumed Yoshie was an absolute babe, though I don't find her ideologically terrifying!
Liza
> From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:24:43 -0800
> To: " lbo-talk at lists.panix.com" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #7167
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> Liza F wrote:
>
>> Actually, I've noticed for years that a lot of people in
>> the ISO are strikingly beautiful. Men and women, but
>> especially women. Not sure why this is.
>
> *ahem* as a trained statistician, I have to inform you that this is an
> example of "survivorship bias". The point being that membership of a
> left-wing sect is a fucking thankless experience with more or less nothing
> to recommend it to an individual except idealism, and we all know how long
> that lasts. The only thing which can possibly keep young chaps showing up
> to yet another god damned meeting (or even, ye Christ, selling party
> newspapers), is the presence of the heartbreakingly beautiful girls who
> inexplicably and occasionally frequent these meetings.
>
> In other words, the ISO is the tail of the distribution; at some point,
> there were lots of other, equally ballsachingly awful organisations which
> didn't happen to have the beautiful women as members, but they all fell
> apart for lack of interest. This is how I deduced, sight unseen, that
> Yoshie must be an absolute babe; anyone as ideologically terrifying as that
> tends to be expelled from polite society pretty quickly unless they've got
> something quite extraordinary going for them.
>
> The presence of the beautiful men can be explained more simply; wherever
> you find extremely beautiful women, you will also find legions of fucking
> pretty boys who they go home with in preference to you. It's just a law
> about the bloody universe.
>
> Notwithstanding the above, which I fear may have come across as slightly
> bitter, a very happy new year to you all.
>
> dd
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