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If you are anything like me, you left the theater after Sex and theCity 2 and thought, there ought to be a law against a looks-based culture in which the only way for 40-year-old actresses to be compensated like 40-year-old actors is to have them look and dress like the teenage daughters of 40-year-old actors.

MeetDeborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor who proposes a legal regime in which discrimination on the basis of looks is as serious as discrimination based on gender or race. In a provocative new book, TheBeautyBias, Rhode lays out the case for anAmerica in which appearance discrimination is no longer alloweD、That means Hooters can’t fire its servers for being too heavy, as allegedly happened last month to a waitress in Michigan who says she received nothing but excellent reviews but weighed 132 pounds.
Rhode is at her most persuasive when arguing that inAmerica, discrimination against unattractive women and short men is as pernicious and widespread as bias based on race, sex, age, ethnicity, religion, and disability. Rhode cites research to prove her point: 11 percent of surveyed couples say they would abort a fetus predisposed toward obesity.College students tell surveyors they’d rather have a spouse who is an embezzler, drug user, or a shoplifter than one who is obese.
And all of this is compounded by a virtually unregulated beauty and diet industry and soaring rates of elective cosmetic surgery. Rhode reminds us how HillaryClinton and Sonia Sotomayor were savaged by the media for their looks, and says it’s no surprise that Sarah Palin paid her makeup artist more than any member of her staff in her run for the vice presidency.
And the problem with making appearance discrimination illegal is thatAmericans just really, really like hot girls.And so long as being a hot girl is deemed a bona fide occupational qualification, there will be cocktail waitresses fired for gaining three pounds. It’s not justAmerican men who like things this way. The truth is that women feel good about competing in beauty pageants.
To put it another way, appearance bias is a massive societal problem with tangible economic costs that most of us—perhaps especially women—perpetuate each time we buy a diet pill or sneer at fat women. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work toward eradicating discrimination based on appearance.But it may mean recognizing that the law won’t stop us from discriminating against the overweight, the aging, and the imperfect, so long as it’s the quality we all hate most in ourselves.
What conclusion can we draw from the passageAmerican people, both men and women, need to be good-looking for their careers’ sake.
B．Film directors should start using ordinary-looking middle-aged actresses to help change the beauty bias.
C．American people need to change their attitudes toward the appearance of themselves to change the beauty bias.
D．If people really hate themselves for being fat or ugly, they will be against a law stopping appearance discrimination.