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Two candidates for student body office at Concordia University stand accused of looking "like beauty pageant contestants" in their ads. But that doesn't really seem to be the problem, as far as we can tell. It looks more like these ladies have made the mistake of campaigning while female. More »
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The firing of a British TV presenter — and her subsequent discrimination lawsuit —has gotten some people talking about an "ageist-sexist" TV culture. More »
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Nothing is permanent. And everything good goes away eventually. Right? That's life. That's the deal. More »
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A new book recommends that we prosecute appearance discrimination as strictly as we do racial or gender bias. But is that even possible? More »
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I remember my grandfather musing that, thanks to dentistry, medicine and relative affluence, people simply weren't "ugly" the way they had been when he was a child in early 20th century Arkansas. (It should be noted that he was known in said hamlet as "Moe Joe the Dog-Faced Boy," a name he carried for the next 80 years.) Well, The Times claims that whereas beauty has dominated the limelight for the past few years, now people are getting interested in the physical Other - classical "ugliness" — its societal perceptions, ramifications, and history. New ordinances protect against look discrimination. New shows claim to celebrate "ugly pretty." But...we've never defined beauty more narrowly! Can we punish this discrimination on the one hand and all tacitly celebrate it on the other? More »
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