Conservative women are more attractive than liberal women who are angry and bad dressers. I couldn’t believe that this was a topic on a conservative radio show today.

A caller to the show “Ask the Rabbi,” or something like that with Rabbi Lapin on KSFO made that observation. I’d never listened to the show but as I changing channels, I heard someone say “I’m your rabbi,” to a caller. Hmm, I thought, this might be an interesting show.

The male caller asked the Rabbi why liberal women were so unattractive. (Probably he just couldn’t get a date.) I wondered how the Rabbi would respond to this clown. What a shocker! The Rabbi not only agreed with this caller but went on to say that he speaks at colleges across the country, and noticed how beautiful women in Christian and LDS colleges were and how homely women at Harvard and Yale are. I could only imagine what these two judges of women’s beauty and goodness must be like. Scary!

I like to listen to different perspectives which is part of what diversity and inclusion is all about. I ‘d be a hypocrite as a diversity consultant if I didn’t, but this was outrageously stupid. It is also an example why curiosity about diversity, is important. It’s all too common for people to judge others based on looks. The Susan Boyle story attests to that.

The radio show brought up three diversity issues for me.
1- Who sets the standard for what is attractive? Am I wrong if I find someone attractive that someone else doesn’t? There is an old episode of “Twilight Zone,” called “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.” I encourage everyone to see it if you haven’t.

2- There is a danger in making assumptions about people and how they think and act, by how they look.

3- It is narrow minded, ignorant, and one dimensional thinking to judge the goodness of people based on how you perceive their political thinking.

3-As a critical thinker, and consultant in diversity I have learned that people are much more complex that a label of liberal or conservative.

I thought that any minute the Rabbi would say that he was broadcasting from the “Bizarro World,) but that never happened and
I switched to CD and put on some good music.