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Seriously. Like the treatment of Ann Coulter - I’ve heard people calling her a man, or calling her an ugly woman. Or talking about Kim Davis, that county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses, ripping apart her appearance as if it were a clue to her moral character. Stop. 

I just went to a presentation on implicit personality theories and learned that our perceptions of others’ attractiveness are a central personality trait that we attribute to them, and there are lots of sub-traits that we implicitly associate with attractiveness. So it makes sense that we would use insults of people’s looks to imply that they’re not good or trustworthy in other ways. We just need to be aware that this is a shitty thing to do and resist it.  

It’s like weird that I have to say this but insulting someone’s appearance isn’t a substitute for an argument and is basically always going to involve some fucked up shit so like

It’s unnecessary and immature and yeah it’s problematic and stop fucking doing it