Jezebel: Ugly

Should The Ugly Have Special Legal Protections?

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:25:00 EDT

Numerous studies have shown that there are disadvantages to being ugly, including being more likely to earn less, attract a less-wealthy mate, and have eggs thrown at you on Bachelor Pad. Now an economics professor from the University of Texas is arguing that the unattractive face such huge disadvantages that they should be a protected class, like racial minorities or disabled people. More »

10 Years Of The World's Ugliest Dogs

Whitney Jefferson — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:00:00 EDT

This weekend, Yoda, a Chinese crested-Chihuahua mix whose owner first thought the pitiful puppy was a street rat, won the title of World's Ugliest Dog. Congrats! However we must make mention of the previous title-holders, who may or may not be much more hideous than Yoda. View this gallery of the past decade's winners and judge for yourself who's the ugliest of them all! More »

Ready-For-Prime-Time Fashion At The TV Land Awards

Sadie Stein — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:20:00 EDT

Yes, the TV Land Awards have been going on for 9 years already. And the attendees are old hands. More »

"Ugly" People Get Their Own Dating Site

Irin Carmon — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:10:03 EDT

It turns out that the range of dating sites out there has not yet been exhausted. From the UK comes The Ugly Bug Ball (TUBB for short), which says it's for "ugly" people who would be shunned on other sites. More »

Free People: For March, The Ugliest Shoes & Clothes To Match

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EDT

The back cover of the March Free People catalog featured The Ugliest Shoes Ever Conceived. Viewing those shoes was such a traumatizing experience, we delayed actually looking inside the pages, should worse monstrosities lurk there. Guess what? They do! More »

The 13 Ugliest Shoes In The World

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:40:00 EDT

Ugly shoes are everywhere. We're having an ugly shoe moment. In an interview about ANTM, Vogue Editor-At-Large Andre Leon Talley sighed: More »

Free People & The Ugliest Shoes Ever Conceived

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:40:00 EST

Monday I received an email about the March Free People catalog. "I am cleaning the vomit off of myself," wrote the tipster. "Just wait until you see the slouch clog." Yesterday? Another email: More »

Blanket Statement

Anna Holmes — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:50:00 EDT

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Expensive Shoes Get Ugly • Learn Proper Umbrella Etiquette

Maria — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST

• Boot porn: who knew that shoes could be this ugly and expensive? (The gems on the left cost $1,350. Yee haw!) • More »

6 Reasons Mustaches Are Not Sexy

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Everywhere we look, we're seeing men with mustaches. Eugene Hutz, the singer from Gogol Bordello, who stars in Madonna's new movie, has an elaborate gypsy stache. There's My Name Is Earl's Jason Lee, who rocks a scraggly stache. Fey Friends, the blog that gave us the worst hairdos from old issues of Playgirl, has just posted (NSFW!) Worst Of Playgirl: Trash Staches. We also got an email today from the American Mustache Institute, asking us to vote for "The Goulet," an award that recognizes the most impactful Mustached American of the past year. But seriously? I questioned the other ladies and almost all of us agree: We're anti-mustache. More »

Daily Cavity

Maria — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Are you ugly? Well, Daily Candy thinks so, and they have the perfect thing for your disgusting mug. Introducing the Ugly Bag, a $2 paper bag with no eye holes that you wear over you face to mask your ugliness. Surely it will soon become the favorite gag gift of all of your passive-aggressive frenemies (like Daily Candy!). Don't ever say that the editors at Daily Candy don't have a sense of humor! (Well, just don't say they can successfully execute a joke post.) [Daily Candy] More »

NY Times Discovers That Women Like Hollywood And Washington Heavyweights

mcarpentier — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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Today's New York Times 'Thursday Styles' section takes a minute to note that other, less high-brow publications have suddenly gotten interested in politics. In fact, they report that everyone from People to US Weekly to TMZ to Inside Edition are covering the race alongside less important stories like Britney's recent weight loss and Lauren Conrad's supposed sex tape. What gives? As the one Jezebel contributor who knows too much about politics, nothing about fashion and writes for Glamour magazine's relatively new political blog, Glamocracy (which should have been a case-in-point for the New York Times, but bygones), I have some thoughts that boil down to: women are complex and interesting creatures with varying interests and politics are important! More »

Mika may think that big girls are beautiful,...

Jennifer — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:45:00 EDT

Mika may think that big girls are beautiful, but author Umberto Eco is all about the ugly. His newest book is called On Ugliness and he's all about spreading the message that "ugliness is more interesting than beauty. Beauty is frequently boring, everybody knows what beauty is... Christianity is linked to the contempt of the flesh... in some paintings there is a real appreciation of the ugly." Us, we love the ugly! But no, it doesn't make us feel better that we were told by someone at a party last week, "OMG! I totally didn't recognize you! You look pretty!". Um, yeah. [Reuters] More »