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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   2995 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 28, 2023

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I don’t think Ratajkowski is that pretty, she’s often cited by men online as an example of a ‘butterface’ with a perfect body but not so great face.

I'm surprised to see this from you since you usually seem to be very skeptical (rightly imo) about a lot of these stories people - especially bitter men - tell themselves in the Discourse.

To see you citing how "men online" talk down Ratajkowski without a jab at how crazy /r/truerateme is is a bit funny.

IMO Ratajkowski is like Sydney Sweeney or hell, Benedict Cumberbatch for a weird male version: their status and/or SMV is so self-evidently high that people can sit around mocking them for their looks without it coming across as mean-spirited (well...less so than usual).

Unless you're a fashion designer or a homosexual, it's almost certainly a meaningless meme.

Sydney Sweeney

What's wrong with her looks? Or Emily's, for that matter. Both are quite attractive and not even close to someone like Amy Winehouse.

It's just a meme on /r/redscarepod that she has "fetal alcohol syndrome face" from certain angles.

But even there it's quite clearly a meme. Anyone who tried to extrapolate from that to her actual low SMV would probably be mercilessly mocked.

I'd be more inclined to describe Sydney Sweeney as a "butterface" (at least by Hollywood standards: she's still pretty enough, but her body is much more impressive than her face) than Emily Ratajkowski. They gave her a dressed-down look in her recent movie Reality, and I think it's fair to say this woman's face is far from stunning.

There are very few women that look stunning without make-up and/or retouching.

Fair enough, and Emily Ratajkowski is one of them, unlike (IMO) Sydney Sweeney.

I don't know if it's the blurriness of the photo or she has some makeup on or it's just a feature of darker complexion (pale eyebrows and eyelashes are one of the big reasons why women with no makeup on look so different), but she does looks presentable.

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