# Comments about appearance of celebrities **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 12, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-about-appearance-of-celebrities/822874 "2018-10-12T20:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-about-appearance-of-celebrities/822874/10 "2018-10-13T01:34:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The line between what is acceptable and what is creepy is, like most lines, blurry. A comment about eyebrows, then, does in fact intersect some tenuous outer portions of that line, in much the same way that the International Space Station intersects some portion of the atmosphere. That said, one would still generally describe the medium the ISS is in as vacuum, even though it might arguably be slightly passing through the air. Am I clear? Neither your analogy nor your point is particularly clear to me. Character appearance is relevant to visual media – such as television and movies – pretty much by definition. I don’t see how those two comments about the lead’s eyebrows were even “arguably slightly” unacceptable. Here are those two posts in their entirety: > [@Manifest (new NBC paranormal series)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/49): > > I just wish she’d pluck her eyebrows some. > [@Manifest (new NBC paranormal series)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/50): > > I also noticed the eyebrows. 😃 Manson objected, and then to prove his or her point, vomited up this threadshit: > [@Manifest (new NBC paranormal series)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manifest-new-nbc-paranormal-series/821913/59): > > Ok, sure. > > I sure hope they show more of that hot woman doctor! She’s fantastically hot! I hope she is in different stages of undress in the next few episodes. It will make the show so much better! She should really try to emphasize her breasts more, to really draw in the male viewers. > > :rolleyes: If someone gets all skeevy, like manson did here, then sure, hand out a warning or a note or whatever, obviously. But the original comments that drove manson over the edge weren’t inappropriate in any way, even if you squint. I’m actually starting to wonder if this might be a false flag operation to undermine the current board climate of trying to be more sensitive to and less tolerant of pervasive misogyny. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-about-appearance-of-celebrities/822874)._