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Lumifer comments on LINK: In favor of niceness, community, and civilisation - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 27 March 2014 07:02:59PM 1 point [-]

Women who don't wear makeup are much less attractive, which significantly reduces their social status and their dating market value. These are things people greatly value.

This is true for certain subcultures. It is NOT true for other subcultures. And this is, of course, before we go into individual differences -- some girls are very pretty with a freshly-scrubbed look.