Democrat Congresswomen ‘Less Feminine in Appearance’ Than Republicans
28th September 2012
Time-rich psychologists in the USA say they have discovered that female Democratic politicians are significantly less feminine in appearance than Republican ones – so much so that it’s often possible to tell which party a woman politico belongs to just by looking at her.
Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees.
I’ve always thought that Congresswoman DeLauro looks like somebody that Indian Jones ought to be battling in a third-world country. But I thought it was just me.
And a survey among undergraduate volunteers showed that you can actually tell what party a US lady politico is by gauging how feminine she appears:
In fact, the relationship is so strong that politically uninformed undergraduates were able to determine the political affiliation of the representatives with an overall accuracy rate that exceeded chance, and the accuracy of those predications increased in direct relation to the lawmaker’s proximity to feminine norms.
Well. There it is.
“Female politicians with stereotypically feminine facial features are more likely to be Republican than Democrat, and the correlation increases the more conservative the lawmaker’s voting record,” adds Colleen M Carpinella, a UCLA graduate student in psychology.
Hey, right-wing chicks are hot. Anne Coulter. Michelle Malkin. Laura Ingraham. Sara Palin. Pamela Geller. Bo Derek.
Perhaps interestingly, Democrat congressmen also appeared more masculine than Republican ones.
Sadly, that doesn’t surprise me a bit.