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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Lose pounds, pad your paycheck?

Overweight white women suffer a significant wage penalty. Research shows it's only getting worse.
Carol Lloyd

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  • Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:14 PM

    women are judged on their looks becasue men care how they look, a fat ugly man may be "respected" for his accomplishments but no woman is going to want to sleep with him

    at least not because she is attracted to him. The only difference in the way men and women are judged is that women get a credit for looking good, or normal, and men don't. Unlike women men HAVE to accomplish something or they are nothing.

    —Anonymous

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