Thought/Anecdote of the Day™©®

for May 15, 2001

On Hot People

Hot people are better than you.

Don’t kid yourself. Don’t pretend that you may have some strategic advantage over them because no matter how you slice it, they not only think they are cooler, more fun to be with, more interesting to talk to, they actually are.

Now, you may be saying, “But Nupe, I’m funny, I’m interesting, I’m intelligent, I have a lot to offer, how could a hot person necessarily be better than me? I mean, don’t I even stand a chance?” The answer my tight-body/beautiful-face-challenged friends is no. You stand no chance. You don’t even sit a chance. Not even a little one. Let’s face it, successful people are pretty people. Let’s just take a look shall we? NOTE: This isn’t so much as a look as a read, but for the purposes of this thought, we’ll just go with it, k?

Imagine a horribly disfigured Cindy Crawford. OK, now stop! OK, now start again! Now stop again! Wheee! Oh. Sorry…I was enjoying that. Anyway, you see? Cindy Crawford isn’t so successful now that she’s really ugly. This test works for everyone. For example, try other models (male OR female), actors and actresses, presidents of beautiful-face clubs, etc.

What’s that you say? I’m only giving examples of jobs in which people have to be pretty in order to succeed? I’m biasing my theory by providing a circular argument? I’m not convincing anyone that hot people are inherently better than not-hot people? Well. I see how it is. I guess you folks are just in denial. You’re afraid to admit your unhotness and so you try to poke holes in my bullet-proof argument!

Fine. Sit there and be not-hot and try to think not-hot-thoughts. Sit there and think not-hot-thoughts-that-trot and smoke some pot. A lot. Sit there, think not-hot-thoughts-that-trot-with-a-lot-of-pot. That’ll help, for a little while…

But you’re still not hot.

Did you like this Thought? Sure did. No, I did not.