An ivory tower that touches the moon

The rant I made about the idea that a good looking woman has something to “fall back on” if she doesn’t have brains reminded me of things I’ve often heard said about women that are really just faulty leaps of logic and I wish people who claim to be intelligent would fucking think about for five minutes and realize the fallacy of their ways.

As a first example of this, don’t ask me why I had to listen to this for a time but I did, there’s this radio DJ named Tom Leykis who is on my list of people I would arch were I a super villain, and he’d always say things like if women have good looks they don’t bother becoming CEO’s or lawyers and such because they can just land them a rich man and not have to work and expand their own horizons. As proof of this supposed phenomenon he cited magazine articles about the world’s most powerful businesswomen and said they were all homely, or something like that.

First of all, this whole idea disappears in a puff of logic once you realize that any person, male or female, who has become a great success in the business world is obviously not going to be twenty fucking years old. If then you saw pictures of said women when young and came to the same conclusion, I think this logic is STILL faulty because of one thing.

Looking “hot” in the plastic Barbie sense takes effort, desire, and work. For everyone. Don’t believe me? Google “celebrities without makeup” sometime. Underneath the concealer and rouge everyone looks like a human being.

I’ve mentioned before how guys on various law school forums lament the lack of “hot” women in law school–and in particular one comment I saw said “intelligent women” are not hot in any field, whether it be law, engineering, science, etc, because they don’t wear makeup, they don’t wear hot clothes, etc.

Any woman with the privilege to be in a program of graduate study, which is expensive, could buy makeup and wear revealing clothing if she so chose. Any such woman could spend student loan money on a boob job, and on a tummy tuck, and on a nose job, and decide to go on a 900 a day calorie diet to become appealing to someone who only cares about these things if her desire was to land a man rather than to be instrumental in the procurement of equal rights for all people or to discover the cure for cancer. Really, plastic surgery is so cheap we’re a tiny bit of free will away from becoming that twilight zone episode where every person gets to choose between two models of what to look like and then has surgery to conform.

The thing is–these women aren’t trying to attract these dudes. It is really the height of narcissism to come to the conclusion that if a woman doesn’t look like Carmen Electra she’s forced to become an astrophysicist because otherwise she’d prefer to be a desperate housewife because that’s the pinnacle of achievement for a woman. Even women who want to be housewives and want to stay at home with the kids rather than have jobs don’t all look like Angelina Jolie and they STILL don’t all want to attract the kind of dehumanizing tacofucker who thinks women are like blow up doll objects one acquires, kind of like a speaker system or a Lexus. They want someone who, err, sees raising the family as an important job that deserves as much respect as anything else. Like someone who has ever used the phrase “upgrade” when speaking about women would ever think that in a million years.

Think about it.

They don’t wear makeup?

They go around in shirts that say “Hyperbole is the best thing ever” and comfy blue jeans rather than tube tops and stiletto heels?

Is it really outside the realm of possibility that they do not care if assholes find them hot? Is it so hard to believe that they might–gasp–not even WANT anything to do with these stupid asses?

I mean, it’s hilarious that Tom Leykis and dudes like him really think that smart women would be with THEM instead of blazing trails if only they were hot enough.

What, like Melinda Gates? Valedictorian of her undergrad class with a degree in computer science and with a masters from Duke who was a product manager for many years before meeting Bill Gates? Like Michelle Obama who got an undergraduate degree at Princeton, a law degree at Harvard, makes goo gobs of money working for hospitals was Barack Obama’s mentor at the law firm they worked at before they fell in love and married? Oh you’re so right dudes, all men would rather just have a supermodel if they could, and all women would just be trophy wives if they were just hot enough. There must be some bullshit going on with the Gates’ close relationship and philanthropy and the Obamas’ affection and fist bumping that belies the natural order that would exist were that bullshit not there. I’m sure all of the women who are CEOs and partners at major law firms would rather be with dudes who think women talk to much and aren’t worth shit once they start to wrinkle rather than whatever men or women they are with who respect them, if only they could!

The narcissism fucking buuuuurns.