Beauty ≠ Skin Deep

Dear Annie,

I know plenty of female engineers. They are definitely married. My cousin Jason married an engineer. She was actually a better student than him in college.

I read Wuthering Heights as a teenager. I remember detesting Heathcliff, feeling completely drained after finishing the book, and thinking that the characters overall made terrible choices which did not at all comply with any rational human thought processes. (Yes it was a great book!)

So you believe that if a woman is smart, she should use this brilliance in the pursuit of idle hobbies and impractical knowledge? You claim that beauty and scientific skills are inversely proportional. I beg to differ. We all know that pretty girls are more likely to get by on their looks alone, and plain janes throw themselves into books to combat those feelings of social rejection. This does not mean that knowledge itself breeds unattractiveness. If anything, because Dahlia is a beauty, you should instill a thirst for knowledge in her early on. There is nothing wrong with having the best of both worlds, as long as you know when it is proper to utilize beauty over brains, and vice versa. Teach her how to apply mascara, then read her an article in Science News.

Admonishingly Yours,
Taintedsky