I wasn’t going to post about this, because it’s fairly grade-school, but I’ve been a reader of, and regular commenter on, JMPP for a couple of years. I generally like her blog, although of late it’s been mostly boring and about dating a poker player, breaking up with a poker player, playing poker, deciding where to live, oh yeah, and making money by playing online poker. And then, about a week ago, she dropped this gem.
Now, I mostly think that post is eye-rollingly myopic but, as the Blog PI notes, much of the blogosphere came down like the hammer of Thor. The most hilarious part of the original post was the Hot or Not reference, the totally unironic Hot or Not reference. Yeah. Anyway, The PI took the liberty of posting a less-flattering photo of Ms Passey for the scrutiny of the unwashed masses. As of now, that photo is pulling in a whopping 5.2 [image below the fold]. Which, frankly, is about in line with my assessment of “The Jackie”. I commented to a friend that she would be in the top half of women I know personally, but only just. And definitely not within the top third.
And this brings me around to my biggest point: You’re only as attractive as you look when you’re not trying. The dolled-up photo at the top of JMPP does make her look like about a 7.5 or so, but the everyday photos that are evident from the photo albums plainly available on the left side-bar of her site make clear that she’s really quite average looking. And, if you scroll down to the bottom of Ace’s long post, you’ll see her wearing what appears to be some sort of Victorian-era window covering. Or maybe it’s a coffin lining, I’m really not so very sure.
She’s certainly not the only person in the world whose looks vary day-to-day, but its fairly egotistical to take the best possible look at say “I am clearly THIS attractive”. Whichever man she ends up with next is not going to get the Glamorshots version every day, he’s going to get the “this frog peed in my hair” version, men know this. Hell, women know this about men. My girlfriend doesn’t get the suave black-tie me every day; she gets the somewhat bedraggled, flew across the country to see her me. Now, which is a more accurate way for me to rate myself? As a suave Tuxedo man or as a guy who’s all right looking but cleans up pretty well? I’m going to go with option #2, thanks. Firstly, it’s much more accurate, and secondly it doesn’t make my ego any bigger. Because, trust me, my ego is not something that needs help getting bigger.
