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There is a modern day irony to Marilyn Monroe. While she remains a Class A sex symbol in our society, were she just starting her career today, she would be considered too “fat” for any sort of serious consideration in Hollywood. This is just silly. Marilyn is the type of woman who would have given Aphrodite the sort of image problems that can only be solved with Prozac, compliments, and delusions. Any guy who wouldn’t run over Keira Knightley or Scarlett Johansson to get their hands on Marilyn probably also thinks that ice cream tastes too good, or beavers just don’t work hard enough. So yes, physically Marilyn had it right. New studies also suggest she had more going on above the neck then her modern day, bulimic, wannabe, counterparts.
Marilyn played the dumb blonde, but much to the chagrin of most hyper-competitive owners of an XX chromosome, she was actually very bright. By all accounts Marilyn had an impressive intellect, and there are those who have flirted with the idea that she may actually have been a genius. According to a study by the Universities of Pittsburg and California, Santa Barbara, this may have been no fluke. After testing 16,325 women, the data suggests that those with the classic hourglass figure are more intellectually gifted then their narrow hipped sisters that think washboard abs and a diet of bean curds are a path to feminine beauty.
It seems unfair that women like Marilyn are both more attractive AND smarter than the silicone enhanced Gisele Bundchen types that the entertainment world is trying to sell to us as some sort of ideal, but life is often not fair. Let’s face it, Marilyn could intellectually keep up with Pulitzer prize winning authors, Presidents, and (allegedly) Einstein, while Kellie Pickler probably has somebody on staff to occasionally remind her to breathe.
Thanks to the good folks at the Universities of Pittsburg and California, Santa Barbara, men can now tell curvy women in bars that they are attracted to their intellects, and have some credibility behind the words. Chatting them up would have nothing to do with how their curves look in a tight dress…(of course not). The only drawback to this study is that money was actually spent to produce such an obvious conclusion. If we really needed to get an authoritative opinion on this matter, they could have saved money on expensive University smarty pants and simply asked Sir Mix-a-Lot about superiority of women with curves.
