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75 Post author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 08:35AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 August 2011 07:58:13AM 7 points [-]

It's plausible that people weren't talking about in public where she could hear it about how good she looked until she became famous.

Also, excuse me if I'm mistaken about this, but there's something about your phrasing which leaves me thinking that there's something weird about a woman who's attractive to you being insecure about her looks. There seems to be huge cultural pressure in the US for women to think they don't look good enough, and what's surprising to me is immunity to it.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 August 2011 01:51:33PM 0 points [-]

but there's something about your phrasing which leaves me thinking that there's something weird about a woman who's attractive to you being insecure about her looks.

No. I've met enough people who fit that category that I don't find it weird at all. A little annoying and something to be discouraged if convenient but not particularly weird.

  • The 'hot' evaluation is not a matter of who I find attractive but of who I evaluate as being considered attractive in general (or possibly what I think other people with think other people find attractive). She isn't exactly what I find attractive even though her general purpose hotness overflows into the wedrifid specific evaluation at least in part.
  • I was referring to an indication of the verbal behaviour of people encountering Tina Fey (people saying that she is hot) rather than whether Tina Fey personally considers herself hot. Sure, personal insecurity can bias recollections about what people say and do but that certainly isn't covered in my phrasing - that's all in your reading!