Ladies and Gentlemen. I bring you the REAL LIFE Judy Nails.

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Find me even one sustained discussion about a woman* that doesn't include either "secks/10" or "d00d what a butter face" and you'll have a point. I'm legitimately not sure you can.

*EDIT - younger than Barbara Walters.


And even then, this is a trope very much borne out by popular culture. Even plain-looking women in TV and movies are drop-dead gorgeous, because they have to be, and if an actual normal-looking woman ever does appear anywhere, her entire character has to be about how fat and/or ugly she is.

Think about celebrities letting themselves go, too - when pictures of a fat John Travolta at the beach show up online, there's laughter and derision. Make it a fat Jessica Simpson, and there's scorn and hate. Because that's a perfectly good sex object going to waste. No, nobody will actually come out and say something like that, and maybe the men here are a little more evolved anyway than the ones who would spew that scorn and hate, but I conscientiously posit that that would make you guys the exception and not the rule.