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Katyia25 September 2012 1:21PM

while the more beautiful (and therefore popular) girls were busy snogging and preparing for what Hart would have you believe are now lives of crushing unhappiness and unrelenting monotony

this is extraordinarily blinkered stuffy stiff institutional thinking ? the more beautiful and therefore popular girls - - - all that education for what haven't you heard of puke rock?

and it's true that being perceived as beautiful (or wanting to be) can come with its own constraints and limits; limits that Hart claims to have escaped, perhaps by utilising what she believes as shortcomings in her appearance as comic inspiration

in fact free of needing to maintain an iron grip of control at all times over that precious body weight ? satisfying yourself with bitchiness and aggression instead - - -

Many conventionally attractive women have few expectations placed upon them: in this we are not so far from Austen

thats your synopsis of Jane Austen is it - - - wow sparklers - - -

Indeed, both sets of women look like losers for buying into this ridiculous false dichotomy. The idea that you cannot be both attractive and intelligent or successful persists despite all evidence to the contrary

she didn't say that though - - - are you speaking in tongues - - -

Then there's the snobbish notion that spending time on your appearance somehow makes you just that little bit stupider than those people who ponce around quoting Goethe in a flurry of plaque and dandruff, not caring that being in their vicinity makes everyone else want to gouge out their own retinas with an eyelash curler

so thats where the time goes - - - this is incredibly binary and limited she isn't saying that at all its about having choices and since when has being in the company of an ugly girl made another girl want to gouge out her eyes - - - what a charming person this author is thankfully I haven't given her too much of my time or creative works - - -

That we are all in competition looks-wise is not as solid a belief as we might think

actually you are revealing more about yourself than I knew ? you really don't understand the word personality at all do you - - -

(though a happy smile, and not an insecure frown, is universally prized)

yup happy smile and a psychotic impulse to gouge out the ugly girls retina - - -

That fatal glaring flaw you hate can be like catnip to someone else

no you love your flaw you flaunt your disease that is the fashion even the young people know it ? funny that without even eavesdropping on this conversetion ?

Something to ponder while I'm painting my nails

so last century dude ?
you didn't see Shappi Khorsandi and the Kumars?

How has your Iranian background influenced your work and success?
I think so, because without all that hair on my body, I would not be that funny. I went to Catholic School in Orange County, and when I would bring my friends home, I would ask my mom not to cook Ghormeh Sabzi, because I always just wanted to fit in so bad. And the way I?d fit, in my mind, was comedy, humor, and making fun of myself: being self-deprecating. I am very proud of Persian, but as kid, not so much. Now, though since I travel a lot, I just feel really connected to the world because of it
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