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Republican Women: Female GOP Politicians Look More Feminine, Congressional Physiognomy Study Suggests
The Hufffington Post  |  By Meredith Bennett-Smith
Posted: 09/29/2012 10:14 am EDT Updated: 09/29/2012 10:14 am EDT


"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," said study author Colleen M. Carpinella, a UCLA graduate student in psychology, in an article posted to the UCLA Newsroom website.

So what makes a woman "stereotypically feminine?"

Certainly, individuals are easily biased by outside factors not related to facial characteristics, including hair style, application of cosmetics, jewelry or clothing style, said Kerri Johnson, the study's senior author and an assistant professor of communication studies and psychology at UCLA. For this reason, the researchers used a computer program that was "immune to those influences."

The program, called FaceGen, allows the researchers to measure more than 100 subtle dimensions including the shape of the jaw, the location of eyebrows, the placement of cheek bones, the shape of eyes and the contour of the forehead, to create a score ranging from -40 (highly male-typed) to +40 (highly female-typed).

For the study, the researchers had FaceGen analyze the portraits of members of the 111th House of Representatives, measuring how closely the facial features of each face approached the average for their gender.

The researchers also studied the faces of male politicians, although those findings were not as revealing, according to the authors. Republicans averaged a less masculine appearance than their Democrat counterparts -- a finding that Carpinella said may suggest that Republican men do not have to exhibit masculinity through their appearance..................................>>>>.........................>>>>.........................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/29/republican-women-feminine-gop-female_n_1924389.html

very interesting..

saying this.......professional women...R or D should dress professionally.....most of them do not.....and it is apparant in all kinds of careers..

teachers, government elected officials, etc., do not dress for success.....they wear all the wrong attire.....just look at our local women in these roles...

and this starts at home and at school....and then on to college.....get rid of the jeans....get rid of the big shirts.....get rid of the flip flops....get rid of tattered

sweaters.. get back to not having bare legs.....have good hair days.....and most of all............nothing like a well groomed woman in all walks of life...

So the bottom line is... politics have taken over the feminine role.......

WHAT NEXT ???

NOT TRUE, Cicero & Loti are pretty & they aint Republiocans.

Quoted from IraRotterdam

NOT TRUE, Cicero & Loti are pretty & they aint Republiocans.

He's hallucinating now, he is seeing message board personas.  

Huffing paint on a Sunday Ira?  

good ol' boys.....

like the good 'ole boys are masculine?

this story is stupid....

right,,, women need to wear suits whether they be pant suits or skirt suits just like the men.....

how about one piece unitards with black shiny boots....beam us up Scotty.....

I don't usually pay attention to these things....but it did make me stop and ponder the thought.........

YUP.....dem women are definitely less than feminine for sure!!!!!

Quoted from CICERO

He's hallucinating now, he is seeing message board personas.  

Huffing paint on a Sunday Ira?  

He's orbiting the planet Krylon.

Quoted from IraRotterdam

NOT TRUE, Cicero & Loti are pretty & they aint Republiocans.

IraRidingham spotted...

A VERY Republican woman....

Sorry Buck, that's not a Republican woman.  That's a woman a Democrat pays services for with taxpayer money.

But thank you, as a Republican woman, I hope you think we really do look that good.

Quoted from BuckStrider

A VERY Republican woman....

Nice try genius, but, Candice Swanepoel is a South African Victoria's Secret model.

Quoted from Libertarian4life

Nice try genius, but, Candice Swanepoel is a South African Victoria's Secret model.

I'll bet you looked at the screen going "OMG! OMG! OMG! I've got him now!....How dare he use a non-American woman in his sarcastic post about a ridiculous study about how Republican political women look more feminine!"


Man you really got me there!

Quoted from Libertarian4life

Nice try genius, but, Candice Swanepoel is a South African Victoria's Secret model.

an apartheid queen

Ridiculous!  Republican women are no more or less feminine than Democrat women.

(It's the Republican MEN who are feminine.)