# "Unattractive" Celebrities: U Mad Bro? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unattractive-celebrities-u-mad-bro/689934 "2014-06-03T15:43:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unattractive-celebrities-u-mad-bro/689934/101 "2014-06-05T20:37:00Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > […]I don’t find the likes of Uma Thurman, Sara Jessica Parker, or Julia Roberts attractive. […] I feel I can go to my local grocery store and find several women better looking than any of them and without having to try very hard to do so. Both of those statements sound perfectly reasonable and plausible. They doubtless wouldn’t meet with universal agreement, but they make total sense as personal statements of your individual preferences about female attractiveness. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unattractive-celebrities-u-mad-bro/689934/102 "2014-06-05T20:49:52Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > Personally I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m “better” than those people because I don’t find the likes of Uma Thurman, Sara Jessica Parker, or Julia Roberts attractive. But I certainly don’t go along with the crowd on the perceptions of those people, either. And yeah, there’s some hyperbole attached to my comments about those people earlier. But I meant what I typed. At least part of the reason why those people are celebrities is supposed to be because of their looks. I feel I can go to my local grocery store and find several women better looking than any of them and without having to try very hard to do so. I’d say you aren’t really distancing yourself from the crowd, though. I’ve not seen anyone actually defend the beauty of any of those actresses. Heck, I’m not entirely certain they were supposed to be all that attractive in their more recent roles. You also really seem to be reading this thread poorly. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unattractive-celebrities-u-mad-bro/689934/103 "2014-06-05T20:52:28Z")
Some (many) men exercise their alpha-ness by belittling women (and other men, when the target is safe enough). They grunt and groan and cry, “look at me, look at how important I am; those bitches are beneath me,” in an effort to look strong and important in the eyes of their fellow men, and in the eyes of women who they attract by power-posturing. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unattractive-celebrities-u-mad-bro/689934/104 "2014-06-06T00:51:18Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > Some (many) men exercise their alpha-ness by belittling women (and other men, when the target is safe enough). They grunt and groan and cry, “look at me, look at how important I am; those bitches are beneath me,” in an effort to look strong and important in the eyes of their fellow men, and in the eyes of women who they attract by power-posturing. 😃 Yes! they are SO beneath him, but it doesn’t matter because IRL he has scored what he thinks is a hot chick, lol! who he probably bullies and clings to like saran wrap. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unattractive-celebrities-u-mad-bro/689934/105 "2014-06-07T08:57:08Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > What’s inspiring inferences of sexism and/or misogyny is posters expressing **vehement contempt or disgust** towards female celebrities simply because they don’t meet their individual preferences about attractiveness. They’re not “expressing vehement contempt or disgust”. They’re **joking**. When someone posts a screenshot from an old Twilight Zone episode, and says it’s a picture of some else, that’s not anger, that’s a **joke**. Is that really not obvious? > [@Kimstu](#): > > And mind you, we’re talking here about examples of clean, healthy, carefully groomed, flatteringly photographed, young or youngish women who are regarded by millions of people as well up among the most beautiful human females in the world. So, what, it’d be okay if they really were ugly (in your opinion)? > [@Kimstu](#): > > Your reading comprehension’s at fault. The part of the discussion from 2010 didn’t garner any “tsk tsk” in that thread because it wasn’t the part with the expressions of extreme contempt and disgust. The posts with remarks like “zombie ugly”, “her face looks like a war zone”, “[a hideously deformed face image is] a good picture of her”, etc., were all from 2013 or 2014. > > So if “the culture has changed”, it’s perhaps not in the way you think. From that thread in 2010: She has a reallly weird face The massive forehead, bugged out eyes, fish lips? She a freak. A couple of my guy friends call her “Old Hound Dog” Her face is prominently featured in both pictures and just… ugh. To me she looked like a shaved rat. got beat in the face with a baseball bat and after some healing and plastic surgery this how she turned out? I can’t freakin’ stand her. She needs to go away. I get a gravelly-chain-smoker vibe from her she looks like a thousand year old male Irish dwarf who’s been hiding in a tree stump She looks like Miss Piggy. If her eyes were any farther apart, she’d be a flounder. old, ugly and fucked up I’d say maybe your reading comprehension’s at fault for missing those, but clearly you didn’t miss them all since you actually quoted one in your reply to that thread. The only post in that thread even bordering on anger was the “war zone” one, at was a drive by from someone who joined the same day. And if you really can’t tell what this **racepug** character is doing in this thread, I suggest you lurk more, just on the internet in general. Actually, you know what, that last one wasn’t from the other thread, it was in this one about Jack Nicholson. But that one was okay for some reason. You may have some point of discussion about the tendency of people to be just be mean spirited towards celebrities in general. You know, because they don’t seem like “real people” (as well noted by **Small Hen** ). But that’s something that actually happens on a large scale. But that’s not what we do here, is it? No, instead, let’s insist that there’s wide spread phenomenon of men being vehemently angry about unattractive celebrities, based on a few offhand comments and jokes we saw in a thread. Then we can spend the next several pages discussing the sources and implications of something we literally just made up in our heads. It’s the SDMB way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unattractive-celebrities-u-mad-bro/689934.md?page=5)