Talk about an overwhelming convergence around one opinion! Given the choice between being the smart one or the pretty one, brilliance trounced beauty.
The Majority
Here are some of the reasons commenters favored the smart one:
- beauty fades and brains don’t, as Kelly said “beauty gives out WAY before your brain does” and Renee added “a beautiful mind lasts forever”
- beauty is subjective, it’s in the eye of the beholder
- beauty is contingent on the person’s personality
- beauty can be purchased, but brains cannot
- life without the brains to read books would be miserable
- smart people can change their looks, as Nicole noted, “there’s always plastic surgery to become the pretty one”
- true beauty is internal anyway, as Fran said “being beautiful in its truest sense, should be inside out” or Indigo said “take a shy intelligent woman and witness the compassion she has for everyone but herself . . .priceless. I would rather that kind of beauty than the pronounced obvious one.”
Karina observed that so many women chose the “smart one,” but we live in a world that “values beauty over brains, if magazines, TV and movies are any Read the rest of this entry »
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