I applaud your support of the First Ammendment, SFU, and
am delighted with your diatribe re Book-by-the-Cover evaluations
of people!
The comment was directed towards Marcie as it was she who , having never met her, judged Ryan based solely upon Ryan's appearance and success in bodybuilding.
Are you a bodybuilder?
would it matter? at least as far as your first comments go. It's always difficult if not impossible to tell when something is a serious question or simply sarcasm or irony. So I rarely get upset and try to answer the best I can.
I was once married to a drop-dead (literally) gorgeous man who
turned out to be a professional assasin. That's how easily fooled
I am. No kidding, he grew up idolizing Clint Eastwood the way
we do Arnold, and couldn't think of a nobler thing to do than
knock off "bad guys". No one, least of all myself, could believe he was
capable of killing a person.
Granted, you want to see past a person's physical appearance.
You're brave/courageous/curious enough to want to get to the heart
of a man. Well, that's also the kinda x-ray vision that a disillusioned
and suspicion-prone person might develop in order to protect themself,
esp. in industries like entertainment or commercial fitness. It's
important to you to judge people properly, thoroughly and accurately. But
you don't trust your sense of sight very much to perform this.
Sight unseen, am I sensing you correctly? Did a beautiful person
ever betray you? (Is the cheese sliding completely off my cracker?)
Hard to believe that this is directed to me but I'll respond. It was Marcie999 who said that she didn't know anything about the particular situation yet believed Ryan to be a strong person since she is achieved some success, was pretty and always seemed nice when she was performing in some professional capacity.
In most of your post, your argument is in support of mine. So it made me wonder if you mixed up Marcie's post with mine.
This is a superficial sport in that we judge a person by how they look. Many people make the mistake of extending that judgement to include personal values, integrity and other intangible qualities. Hence the fact that many people, women as well as men, hold out the thought that Titus wasn't involved or that Ryan, being who she is, is incapable of doing such a thing. Which is patently absurd- as it is difficult to figure out what a person is thinking. As you yourself pointed out, pretty people are indeed capable of pulling off some pretty heinous acts.
A person doesn't need to be betrayed themselves to see how often someone says " He didn't look like a killer- he appeared normal".
This could be equally applied to those "normal looking or pretty people" who are often portrayed as completely innocent yet took part in killing little girls or murdering other people.
There is an entire genre of non-fiction crime writing about these sorts of people: Pretty women and handsome men who get away with murder, literally, since many people automatically equate "pretty" with " good".
This didn't start with my observation of this phenomena: it's been around longer than I have and will continue pretty much unabated for years to come.
Yes, the cheese has completely slid off your cracker, hit the floor and the dog has ate it.
Unless you count your post, no beautiful person has betrayed me.
( j/k about you betraying me. I do think that if you are who you I think you are, then you are very beautiful, and by extension- a great person...
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