Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Wendy Lyon wrote:
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> >On 11/3/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In a poll of 10,000 single men, 68 per cent preferred natural
> >>beauty to women who were plastered in cosmetics
> >
> >Of course they would tell a pollster that!
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> And I'll bet a lot of men (me included) couldn't tell when a woman
> was wearing light makeup, and might take it for "natural." "Plastered
> with" sounds like something a drag queen would do.
Doug and Wendy are both probably right, but their posts don't quite get at the real slime sandwiched into the original post, the crude sociobiology of men looking for a "glow" that promises "fertility." This is worse than the Dowd column in the NYT about the "unmarriageable" status of bright women.
Carrol