who has never heard of the blonde jokes? and why do beauty pageants have a question-and-answer portion? isn’t it to prove that these beautiful women indeed have something between their beautiful ears? are beauty and brains really mutually exclusive? (i’d write that i am a living proof that it isn’t, but i’d like to finish this entry before thunder and lightning stikes me!)

beautiful women have been the common victims of such typecasting. the other way around is less common: how often are brainy people being ridiculed for not being pretty? as if it’s permissible– or expected?– that intelligent people are physically uninteresting. maybe it’s an indication that intelligence is a more redeemable value than beauty, and if so, then hallelujah, there must still be something going right in this world, then.

nevertheless, sterotyping still happens. let’s take a simple test.

think of a scientist and tell me first five words that come to mind to describe the image of the scientists you’ve conjured. most probably, the words “geek”, “nerd”, “einstein”, “eyeglasses” and “boring” belong to the top of the list to describe the unkempt, uninteresting dork-with-the-sex-appeal-of-cold-spaghetti that comes to mind, eh?

introducing: the sexy scientists (and no, i am not the author, dotruth). no, the phrase is not an oxymoron. scroll and browse at the photos (my eyes glazed as i tried reading their research topics) and see living proofs that some scientists are gifted not just with brains.

i should know, i married one. (i just felt i had to make that clear, hehe)

via: Coturnix

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