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Homosexuals on /r/redscarepod are not "men".
The only person who has really extolled her beauty in my knowledge is Bronze Age Pervert, who is and has been known to be a homosexual for decades so can hardly have much insight on women's looks. He really should stay away from the topic, the only other time he went on about some woman was the 'Olivia Casta' thing which was about some IG/OF thot trying to avoid the glue factory fate using teen filter to boost her numbers. (nsfw link).
I'd rate Emily as 6/10, not ugly, but many flaws. Slightly crooked nose, lips too full, eyes too wide set, could probably go on for a while about her face.
If we go by reasonably objective standards, such as higher N twitter polls, it's notable that by a quite serious margin, in about seven elimination tournaments internet racists chose Jennifer Connelly to be the most beautiful woman ever. Still is very good looking, though the dessicated vegan look isn't really doing her any favors.
28 matches, zero losses.
Which is unsurprising, as she's both Jewish and was rather pretty back in the day. And had a very nice figure. To the point there's an entire youtube channel dedicated to it. Can you find one as obsessed with e.g. Ratajkowski or really anyone else ?
Man I don't need any of this, I'm a hetero man with a working endocrine system, I can figure it out myself.
I understand we are trying to proxy consensus by group here, but this specific thing is hardly rocket science to me.
Emily Ratajkowski is not very pretty.
The guy you were responding to is perfectly right. She barely qualifies as pretty, tbh, down to individual taste. She's not actively ugly, as in repellent, but really not far from it. If she got onto the buccal fat removal train, she could easily get there.
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I guess I'm not racist enough. Young Connelly is pretty, but not striking, in a "high school prom queen from Iowa" sort of way. Modern Connelly is striking, but not pretty.
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More effort, less heat, please.
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