Who is the most beautiful politician in the world?
Posted on April 5, 2009 by by valerirojas
A Spanish newspaper “20 minutes” has come up with a poll to find out who is the most beautiful female politician in the World. This is the link to the newspaper if you want to view the whole list “politicians”.
Australia has three representatives going for gold as well. Maybe check the site out and vote for them.
There are 65 candidates of 38 countries.
The Top five at the moment are:
- Yuri Fujikawa – Japan
- Luciana LeĂłn – Peru
- Mara Carfagna – Italy
- Toireasa Ferris – Irland
- Manuela D’Avila – Brazil
Top five by ranking order - left to right
The only three Australians in order of ranking are:
- Melissa Parke – Labor Party, top 41.
- Kate Ellis – Labor Party, top 46.
- Penny Wong – Labor Party, top 64.
Top three Australians in order by ranking - left to right
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Ugh. Ugh, Ugh, Ugh. I can’t tell you how much this disgusts me. I’m sure these women haven’t joined politics because they wanted to be ranked according to their looks. If they did, they would have joined a beauty pageant instead. What about their policies? Their beliefs? Their standards? Their morals? Who are they and what do they want from life?
And only minutes ago I was chatting to a friend saying how far women have come to equality. Perhaps I was wrong.
*sigh*
L
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I reckon women have come a long way, although there’s still a ways to go. Pity the Spanish newspapers haven’t kept pace with the march towards equality.
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I agree with your point and that is why I put this article in typeboard to see what people really think about this issue.
I am sure politicians have better things to do than worry about their image, unfortunately everyone looks at their image, I had enough of everyone talking about Julia Gillard’s hair styles.
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People do look at image, but what annoys me the most is the double standard. To be seen as a good politician, women have to have good looks as well. There’s a hell of a lot of shocking looking male politicians out there, but it doesn’t seem to affect their credibility, or the votes they receive. Of course, that doesn’t mean we should all start voting on the men’s looks either, because that doesn’t solve the problem. This type of thing (whether done to men or women, although it overwhelmingly seems to occur with female politicians) only reinforces the gender divide. These women have fought a lot of barriers to get to where they are, and this just denigrates that hard work and reduces them to an object to be ogled. That this behaviour is seen as ‘a bit of fun’, a ‘light-hearted bit of entertainment’ or whatever, just makes me ill.
L
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I do think a focus on the physical attributes of these women diminishes their considerable achievements and is discriminatory to their counterparts who don’t fit the current fashion for beauty.
Beauty is just a construct like art. Who is to say that one person is pretty and another ugly? As art is a combination of technique and communication, beauty is a combination of aesthetics and substance.
Surely it cannot be anything other than demeaning to reduce a deep and complex human entity to the sum of a few body parts?
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I think the poll from the Spanish site is a bit of a joke and nothing to get too upset about.
I know who I will vote for “go aussies” and I don’t care if the poll is about women or men, beauty or something else, all I know is there are three Australians in it and I am just going to vote for them
I also believe in equality, not just men and women but also multiculturalism, we are all the same here.
Interesting topic for sure as some people will find this a bit of a joke and others will get a little offended about it.
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The thing is, that while we treat it as a ‘bit of a joke’, these women have been completely objectified. It’s not a ‘bit of a joke’ if it demeans women, and denigrates their achievements. Just like ‘nigger’ and ‘gay’ jokes aren’t funny. Why is considered acceptable to laugh at women in this way, but it’s not acceptable to laugh at other minority groups? (Yes, I know women aren’t a minority in terms of population, but they are a minority in terms of politicians, so my point stands).
L
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Scoop says:
I also believe in equality, not just men and women but also multiculturalism, we are all the same here.
That’s right, so why are you voting for them? Just because you would vote for men too, doesn’t make the behaviour right. That’s partially because men don’t become the subject of polls like these, and partly because it wouldn’t matter if it were about women, men, aboriginals, homosexuals, asians, or any other group. It reduces a single group of people to nothing but their looks, and completely ignores what achievements those people have made. If you want to vote on looks, go and vote on the next swimsuit model – they have chosen to be recognised for their looks. Don’t vote on politicians.
(And I’m not a ‘little offended’ by it. I’m a lot offended by it. Women face a lot of struggles to get to positions of power, and they don’t need some slack-jawed internet user bringing that undone.)
L
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L > fair enough. I respect your opinion, I guess I just never thought about it that way.
That’s right, so why are you voting for them?
Because they are Australians and I just want them to do well, like I said I didn’t care what the poll was about, I just wanted to support the few aussies in the poll.
It reduces a single group of people to nothing but their looks
It is sad but true, it happens for anything and everything. I mean some people think HTC looks better than an Iphone.
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Just because it happens (and it does, I understand that) doesn’t mean we should be encouraging it. For people anyway, I’m all for people arguing over form between the HTC and the iPhone
By sharing this article around, hitting the site, and voting, we are tacitly approving of this behaviour. If you want to see this type of thing stopped (as I most definitely do) then start ignoring it. If they don’t get clicks to the site, then they lose.
(By the way Scoop, I appreciate the way you have put your point across. It’s quite a pleasure to
arguedebate with you!)L
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With Treasurer Swan stimulating millions across the country, surely he’d be the most attractive politician in Australia at the moment?
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Hehe. True enough, that!
L
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