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#MeToo blinding us to reverse discrimination in the justice system?

February 10, 2018 By Karl 4 Comments

Bust shot of Foges in red top. She alleges reverse discrimination in the justice system.

Women in the #MeToo movement calling out sexual assault is big news now. That's great. But is there reverse discrimination in the justice system that favors women? Clare Foges claims there is. She recently wrote about its presence in the crim justice system in Britain. Foges was a speechwriter for former PM David Cameron at 10 Downing Street. As a result, she earned the title  "The Prime Minister's larynx/voice." (Interesting factoid—After university studies, Foges drove an ice-cream truck . . … [Read more...]

Crim Justice takes a hit with regard to older celebs.

May 27, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Crim justice & Tim Allen

What happens when crim justice, lookism, and celebrity meet face to face? Lady Justice peaks from under her blindfold and renders "modified" justice. Some would call it "in" justice. Crim justice takes a hit. We've explored attractiveness and sentencing in recent posts.  Recently we looked at younger troubled stars. Here are a couple of examples of older troubled stars. That is, attractive people who've used their celebrity and wealth to game the justice system. The crim justice system pretty … [Read more...]

Lookism: Before & After shots of celebrities.

March 26, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Lookism: Heidi Klum

There's theoretical lookism and applied lookism. I've blogged more about the former than the latter. The latter includes beauty makeup and cosmetic surgery, among other things.Lookism goes to the movies.Because many of you have asked for Before and After pictures of famous faces, not just cleft lip and palate kids, I looked around for some.Mostly I found Before and After pics of movie stars. And specifically pics of female actors. They are pressured more than male actors to continue looking good … [Read more...]

Lookism & the Resting Bitch Face, II.

November 13, 2016 By Karl Leave a Comment

Lookism: latest peeve is RBF. Bust shots of Kristin Stewart, Kanye West, Queen Elizabeth.

This website is dedicated to the face— esp the disfigured, asymmetric, heroic, villainous, or foolish face. This means that the site and my blog take on some pretty interesting topics. In my  blog two weeks ago, I raised the issue of the resting bitch face (RBF) and joked about choosing between a witch or a bitch face mask for Halloween. That would've meant putting frown and anger marks on one's face. Or getting a mask of one of the celebrities who claim (or others claim) to "suffer" from … [Read more...]

Lookism & Halloween: witch or bitch face?

October 30, 2016 By Karl Leave a Comment

Bust shot of actress in ATT&T commercial with annoyed face- Lookism?

It is Halloween and the time that witch faces show up at parties and at neighborhood trick-or-treat outings. All sorts of other faces show up, too—esp some representing lookism gone wild (for example, sweet faces from Disney's studios and  pretty ones from Hollywood's glamor factories).Among meme-loving sophisticates, moreover, there's now the chance to put on a "resting bitch face" mask as well as a witch mask. In the last couple of years, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have … [Read more...]

Facial symmetry is sexy, but why?

October 9, 2016 By Karl Leave a Comment

Color drawing of woman's face with lots of lines of symmetry on it.

Facial symmetry has been felt to be attractive, even sexy, because our DNA correlates symmetry with good health. But Stephanie Pappas reports on a recent study that calls all this into question:Despite the widespread assumption that symmetry might be a sign of good health, studies have turned up little evidence of a link between the two. A few small studies have linked facial asymmetry with some short-term health woes, like scratchy throats, but many others have found no links at all.However, … [Read more...]

Which of Kate Middleton’s features most requested by plastic surgery patients?

October 1, 2016 By Karl 1 Comment

Plastic surgery ideal: Duchess of Cambridge with hat on waving from a car.

What can I say? An article on plastic surgery that mentioned Kate Middleton, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, and other paragons of female beauty caught my eye. Maybe it did because the political news about Donald Trump this week has focused on his fat-shaming and battles concerning a former beauty queen. Celebrating the female face and body seems downright wholesome by comparison, even if cosmetic surgery feeds into the lookism of western societies.Plastic surgery and Kate … [Read more...]

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The new Frida Kahlo. Are Appearances Deceiving?

  If my prior post showed skepticism about the latest self-reinvention of Paris Hilton, then this post is different.  I invite you to learn about the private life of well-respected Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. After you learn some of the against-type characteristics of the … [Read More...]

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The new Paris Hilton. Are Appearances Deceiving?

  One of the themes in this website is "Appearances can be deceiving." In one blog  I wrote about the deceptive appearance of President John F. Kennedy. In my last blog  I tried to show (and explain to a degree), Paris Hilton's "Barbie" doll phase. We'll look at a number of statements … [Read More...]

Appearances can be deceiving -Paris H

Paris Hilton – the First Human Barbie?

It's no surprise that Margot Robbie is playing the first human Barbie in her new movie. Her looks and stature make her a natural to portray Mattel's doll introduced in 1959.  But Paris Hilton, too, can resemble the most famous toy of all. And so Paris may've beaten Margot to the punch as the first … [Read More...]

Report shows Minneapolis Police Bias

    Attorney General Merrick Garland unveiled the Minneapolis police bias report 10 days ago. It confirmed what hundreds of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters suspected:The Minneapolis police has a problem with explicit and implicit bias. I've written many blogs on these … [Read More...]

Voskerichian, among Berkowitz's murder victims. He faked insanity.

Insanity in the courtroom: detecting Fakery – Part II

This blog is a continuation of last month's blog about insanity in court cases.A number of years ago, a New York courtroom tried  Pedro Hernandez for the murder of Etan Patz who was one of the first missing children to be featured on a milk carton.  The defendant said at one point that he put Etan … [Read More...]

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