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Originally Posted by jammies
Well, one is criticizing a physical skill directly related to his performance as a pro hockey player, and the other is applying impossible standards of beauty to a woman - a pervasive meme which affects impressionable girls with poor self-image and feelings of inadequacy. I think not only are they different questions, but wildly different, and a borderline offensive question in the latter instance.
And before we go down that road, of course I make conscious and unconscious evaluations of attractiveness, but there's another profound difference between judgement, and petty snipes, and between what one should say in public, or think in private. This isn't TMZ, or some celebrity gossip site, and doesn't need to devolve that way.
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But that's what pageants are. An impossible skill. Not dissimilar to the 0.1% chance someone will be an NHLer. Boys and girls who are poor at sports also feel inadequate in life with poor self-image.
As has been discussed here. It's very similar to sports. There's training in posture, make-up, hair, camera angles, clothes, fashion, speaking, listening, friendliness...everything.