A Picture is Worth Several Thousand Words

(This article is for comedic purposes only)

I am going to interrupt my hiatus to present something that seems side-splittingly funny at first, yet frighteningly disturbing once one ponders what lies beneath the surface. 

Tammy Bruce wrote an article in 2005 noting how the intellectual rot of the Leftist ideology has mirrored a deterioration in the physical appearance of Left-wing ideologues.  Bruce makes the case that as the Left degenerated away from a goal of seeking solutions to improve people's lives and towards a militant hatred of anything that does not conform to an increasingly rigid cult, this sordid mentality led to visible declines and even mutations in physical appearance. 

One cannot help but contemplate the literary works that examine certain variations of this theme :

1) The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, where, in the distant future, the human race has split into two branches - the beautiful, sun-loving Eloi, and the insectoid, subterranean Morlocks.  It is revealed that the Morlocks harvest the Eloi for food. 

2) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, where a young man is able to remain immortally handsome while a picture of him grows increasingly ugly with each sin he commits. 

3) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, where the Orcs, Urug-Hai, and Trolls of Mordor are allegories of expansionist totalitarianism.  Orcs and Urug-Hai are 'manufactured' in underground factories, as there are no female Orcs.  Orcs create nothing of beauty, instead seeking only the destruction of others. 

In viewing the contrasting collections below, the sheer magnitude of the chasm is striking.  Even if one were to adjust for the difference in median age between the two groups, the gap merely shrinks from colossal to gigantic (the median age of the Right-Wing group nonetheless exceeds 40).

Perhaps this is a visible example of Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms.  In nature, many species' have natural predators to weed out the weak or defective members.  Since humans have no natural predators, nature had to adapt in order to continue the filtering process.  Nature responded by making some members of the human species too unattractive to mate (the majority in the lower group are childless).  Oddly, the leftists who consider themselves enlightened for believing in evolution entirely fail to see this glaring irony. 

Comments

[sam]

An interesting contrast but in some ways contrived. Whoever put the collection of pictures together went out of their way to find the most flattering photos of the top group, and the least flattering photos of the bottom group. Add that to the observation that the bottom group is significantly older on average than the top group. Which brings up a question. Are the political leanings of women (and presumably also men) tied to their generation?

[Chris]

It seems to me that your implication here is that there is a correlation between female beauty and intelligence. Personally my experience refutes this, in fact if anything I expect there to be a negative correlation.

Maybe what is really going on is the left pick people of intelligence; beauty not being important for intellectual discussions. The right - happy just to scream and shout instead of making arguments - pick people that just look nicer.

Of course, the pictures are very misleading as well. There is a reason "she" is called Mann Coulter.

[Chris]

Also, interesting to see the Republican contigent includes an acrtress that happens to be a Republican. Amazing that no pretty actress who happens to be a democrat could be found for the second section. What happened, did all the democrats leave Hollywood?

[Dr. Kenneth Noisewater]

"It seems to me that your implication here is that there is a correlation between female beauty and intelligence. Personally my experience refutes this, in fact if anything I expect there to be a negative correlation."

Wow, sexist much? Or only if they're not on your side?

Chris,

Maybe what is really going on is the left pick people of intelligence; beauty not being important for intellectual discussions.

er... the evidence suggests quite the opposite. It is the right that demonstrates greater economic ability, from this irrefutable data.

Of course, leftists think the lower the income, the smarter the person, which possibly explains why leftists hate meritocracy so much - they occupy it's lowest level.

[John Layfield]

An ugly mind leads to an ugly exterior, while noble intentions leads to a noble exterior. So true, so true, so true.

[Donald Stott]

Hey, Patricia Heaton is Right (and gorgeous).

[Max]

There is a theory of revolutions that says the side with the babes wins.

[World Citizen]

Dude KMG4,

this post is a way wacked... the references to the novels do not have any relation to the idea of this post, even as a comic one (or it's a very bad sense of humor ;))
For instance, The Picture of Dorian Gray carries no any political ideas especially related to left or right wing, it's a story of a sin, I hope you know which one... If you are trying to make a point that rightists do not commit any sins - you are wrong, both of the sides do...

etc..

If we apply common sense to the current political situation in US: Rightist = Leftist "degenerated towards a militant hatred of anything that does not conform to an increasingly rigid cult" ;)

And, I thought "rightist" does not believe in the Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms ;)

[World Citizen]

An ugly mind leads to an ugly exterior, while noble intentions leads to a noble exterior. So true, so true, so true.

hey, John Layfield

are you talking about "smart" Britny Spears, who loves our president and so beautiful inside? ;)

or were you just sarcastic?..

[Chris]

> Wow, sexist much? Or only if they're not on your side?

Why on earth would you think it sexist to suggest female beauty and intelligence do not correlate? While it still wouldn't be sexist even if I didn't think the same was true for men, it seems to me that it applies to men as well.

If you have some evidence to suggest that beauty correlates with intelligence I am all ears.

> er... the evidence suggests quite the opposite. It is the right that demonstrates greater economic ability, from this irrefutable data.

You are aware that income is not just about intelligence? In fact some of the most intelligent people earn little working as professors or scientists. Beauty is certainly correlated with income, of that there is no doubt, but that is a long way from suggesting beauty is correlated with intelligence.

[Chris]

Is there a reason why my follow up comments were deleted?

[Val]

All that is written is true about right and left wing but I totally disagree with the pictures posted to represent each category. But since this post is for comedic purposes only, I'm taking everything at face value.

[Steffan]

In this particular case, the exterior really *does* match the interior.

Check zombietime.com for some further illustrations on this theme, using actual protests by actual protesters who, unfortunately, undressed. More than once.

Why can't we get the babes of the Right Wing to do a "Boobs Not Bombs" protest?

[NikFromNYC]

Genetics could play a role. Really hot chicks tend to marry up, easily, and right (non-celebrities) tend to be Republican merely to reduce their taxes and red tape. So there you have the good-sperm theory of this hypothesis.

Yet temperament is also inborn, mostly. I say, do not demonize demonically looking old hags, even if they *did* mistakenly convince two generations of nubile young women to get old before they sought husbands. All it took was Madonna and Britney to make young girls look at their ladder climbing (stress-hormone destroyed UGLY mothers and say..."not for me!")

But their path to hell was paved with good intentions, and they did do some good (remember the Religious Right and how they wanted to outlaw porn while selling cocaine to finance secret wars?!). I see these stress-hormone wrecked (chronically cortisol-elevated battle axes as martyrs to a cause). They were willing to take a physical hit, the way soldiers did in WWI who charged out of their trenches into clouds of chlorine gas.

Or maybe ugly chicks just can't get any attention without shaking their fists about and getting on TV, so they finally get invited to high society parties and thus obtain access to high status, albeit pussy-whippable men, like say, Ted Turner.

[Veeshir]

Somebody mentioned age, Heather Locklear, Jaclyn Smith and Bo Derek were hot in the late 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. Most (all?) of those in the lower pic were never hot. Teresa Kerry might have been pretty hot, back when she married a Republican. But then she got old, crazy and fairly ugly and she ended up with John Kerry.
Hmmmm, even more support for your thesis.

As Forrest Gump said, "Ugly is as ugly does" or something like that.

[M. Simon]

I was around for the 60s and I must say the babe factor was a huge attraction.

I look at pictures of demos today and I have to say "why bother?"

[Ken]

This is totally unfair. Almost as unfair as people like chris saying, without a shred of evidence, that all men who own guns have small penises--which, obviously, justifies ultra-bloody waco-type raids, since no less an authority than larry flint says that a man should be judged--and, if need be, incinerated--not by the content of his character, but by the size of his dong.

[Denny, Alaska]

I LMAO every time I see this! Thanks.