294 The Ugly Truth about Beauty The Long and the Short of It
294 有关美丽的丑恶现实 高个子和矮个子
Evolution may have led women to prefer taller men.
人类进化可能已使女人更偏爱身材高大的男士。
Women will take just about any shortcoming in a man, except in the height department, according to Andrea McGinty, who founded the San Diego-based dating service It's Just Lunch.
安德烈亚·麦金蒂是圣迭戈一家名叫“幽情午餐”的约会服务社的创始人。她说，女人几乎会容忍男人身人的任何缺点，唯独不能容忍的是身材矮小。
McGinty helped ABCNEWS put together an experiment to test just how willing women are to date shorter men. We brought together several short men and asked them to stand next to taller men. We invited groups of women to look at the men and choose a date.
麦金蒂帮助美国广播新闻网做了一个实验，测试女士们到底在多大程度上愿意与身材矮小的男士约会。我们让几个矮个子男士挨着高个子的男士站在一起，然后邀请几组女士来看，从中选择约会对象。
To see if the women would go for short guys who were successful, ABCNEWS' Lynn Sherr created extraordinary r é sum é s for the shorter men. She told the women that the shorter men included a doctor, a best-selling author, a champion skier, a venture capitalist who'd made millions by the age of 25.
为了看看女士是否会对事业有成的矮个男士有好感，美国广播新闻网的林恩·谢里为矮个男士设计的简历都很出众。她告诉这些女士，矮个子男士中有一位医生、一位畅销书作家、一个滑雪冠军和一位 25 岁时就已经赚了几百万美元的风险资本家。
Nothing worked. The women always chose the tall men.
但这些都没能奏效。女士们总是选择高个子男士。
The desire for tall men begins very young, apparently. ABCNEWS gave elementary school students a test, asking them to match a small, medium or large figure of a man with a series of words. The kids overwhelmingly linked the tall figure to the words strong, handsome and smart. They linked the short figure to the words sad, scared and weak
显然，对高个男人的好感早在孩提时代就已形成。美国广播新闻网在小学生中做了一个实验，让他们想出一系列词语来描绘不同身材的男士。结果，孩子们几乎异口同声地用强壮、英俊和聪明来描绘身材高大的男士，而把矮个子男士与可悲、胆怯及软弱等词联系起来。
Add ‘Lookism' to the List
“以貌取人”也是一种歧视
To conduct an experiment, 20/20 hired actors-some great-looking, some not-and put them in situations to gauge how often the “lookers” would get preferential treatment.
为了搞一次实验，美国广播新闻网 20/20 栏目雇了几名演员——有的很漂亮，有的相貌平平——把他们放在不同的场合以测试“美人儿”受人厚待的几率。
In the first text, we put two women next to cars without gas in Atlanta. The women wore the same outfit.
在第一项测试中，我们让两位女士站在亚特兰大街头，身边是汽油耗尽的私家车。她们穿的衣服完全一样。
Both Michelle and Tracey stood helplessly by cars with their hoods up. For the average-looking Michelle, a few pedestrians stopped but only made suggestions as the beautiful Tracey, cars came screeching to a halt. More than a dozen cars stopped and six people went to get Tracey gas.
车的前盖向上支着，米歇尔和特蕾西站在车旁，一副无能为力的样子。有几个行人走过来，在相貌平平的米歇尔前站住，但只示意她可以步行去哪里买到汽油。而面对漂亮的特蕾西，十多辆小车先后戛然而止，有 6 个人下车帮她搞到了汽油。
“It's a non-conscious process,” said Tom Cash, a psychologist at Old Dominion University. “They assume that more attractive people have an array of valued characteristics.”
弗吉尼亚大学的心理学家汤姆·卡什说：“这是一个下意识的过程，他们认为漂亮的人具有许多有价值的特点。”
We should add the bias of “lookism” to sexism and racism. It's just as bad but we don't need a federal program.
除了“性别歧视”和“种族歧视”外，现在还应再加一条“相貌歧视”。它同样有害，只是我们无需发起一场全国的运动来反对它。