# How much do you judge based on appearance?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 14, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-judge-based-on-appearance/543096 "2010-06-14T04:09:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-judge-based-on-appearance/543096/21 "2010-06-21T05:15:49Z")

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In terms of romantic relationships it’s extremely important to me.

In terms of every other sort of relationship? Not very much, I don’t think. In general I’m distracted and unobservant, and I don’t think about other people very much. I know I have enjoyed the company of many people who are fat, unusually fat, facially ugly, deformed, obviously brain damaged, or present themselves in a way that isn’t considered socially acceptable. And I kind of like it when someone is so weird that can’t conform to the usual social norms of hair/clothes/grooming, or if they just don’t give a fuck what other people think they look like.

That’s not to say I don’t appreciate physical beauty, perfect abs, good dress sense, and cute shoes. But I don’t feel like I look down at people who don’t have these things, or don’t strive for them, at all.

The thing that I am very serious about is offensive body odor. If I’m forced to be in contact with someone who smells bad I feel like they are torturing me and I start to resent them, and eventually hate them.

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> I have found that fat people do tend to be lazy. So am I a bigot?

If someone goes around saying ‘I have found that black people tend to be criminals’ would you think they were a bigot?

I think you’re very much a bigot, because a majority of people I know are fat, and I haven’t reached the same conclusions you have about them. Therefore I think you are projecting negative stereotypes upon them.

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