Maria Shriver is now the first lady of California, but back in the 1980s she read the morning news on television. I sat there and ate my Corn Flakes and looked at her. I barely heard a word she said: I was too taken away by her beauty. What a jaw!
I was not the only one who felt that way. So did Arnold Schwarzenegger: he married her.
But not everyone does. J Richards of majorityrights.com for one. Richards says Maria Shriver’s jaw has a “beastly appearance”, that it is “remarkably primitive” and outside the “aesthetic range”. It is the sort of jaw more commonly found in black women. In fact, it is more like the jaw of an animal than the jaw of a white woman.
But wait – there is more.
Richards has a whole theory about jaws to prove that whites and Ainus are superior.
Square jaws and high cheekbones are common in African and Asian women but not in Ainu and white women: they mostly have low cheekbones and a weak jaw – what Richards calls “gracile”. They have much smaller jaws and teeth – compared to their body size – than do women elsewhere.
Why is that? Richards says it is because they ate cooked food long before anyone else. So long, in fact, that their jaws and teeth started to change. Eating cooked food does not require a strong jaw with large teeth.
And why did whites and Ainus eat cooked food long before anyone else? Because they have more intelligence than the rest of mankind. Richards overlooks the fact that both whites and Ainus live in the far north where fire is far more important and therefore its uses would be developed far sooner.
Richards’s argument assumes that his own ideas of female beauty are universal. It is not just white men that like sunken cheekbones and weak jaws in women – Richards says everyone does.
He says that it is the strong jaw in black women that makes them look so much like men and therefore less desirable than white women. That shows you how universal he thinks his ideas of female beauty are. Black men, it seems, are stuck with black women, but secretly they all want to marry white women.
But I know at first hand that his ideas of beauty are not universal: I, for one, love women with high cheekbones. Maria Shriver’s jaw was not beastly to me, but beautiful. And for Arnold Schwarzenegger too, who could have had any woman he wanted.
But if men can find women with high cheekbones beautiful, as I know I do, then women will continue to have high cheekbones long after they are no longer necessary for eating uncooked food. But if that is true, then Richards’s argument falls apart.
So perhaps whites and Ainus are not the master race after all.
See also:
- Racial variation in some parts of the skull involved in chewing – Richards’s theory of the jaw
- Maria Shriver
- Why I love thick women – another thing I like in women
- race and beauty
- The ten most beautiful women in the world – I put Maria Shriver in fifth place.
- white women
- black women
- California
The people at MR are whacked and arrogant! That’s why they don’t have girlfriends or wives because of their xenophobic, racist, and sexist attitudes. Maria Shriver is beautiful. Catherine Zeta Jones is beautiful. Naomi Campbell is beautiful. Tomiko Fraser is beautiful. Faith Evans is beautiful. So are millions of Black, Brown, Tan, White, Yellow, and Olive women around the world. These guys don’t know anything about women, let alone beauty.
Stephanie B.
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LOL
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abagong,
Thanks.
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Abagond,
The arrogance of some people never amaze me. Especially the guy or, shall I say troll over at Rachel’s Tavern saying hateful things regarding the appearance of Black women and how Asian and Middle Eastern Men adore White women.
Stephanie B.
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I think Vijay was just saying stuff to give himself and his friends a good laugh.
Stranger things are true, but I would be surprised if most men in India and China prefer German and Swedish women to their own. I mean, there are limits (I hope) to how much people can be brainwashed by television.
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How does J. Richards coincide his theory with men who have strong jaws? Are they exempt?
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Yes, they are exempt.
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THIS RICHARDS GUY IS A SICKO.
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*sighs* i missed this one i’m so sick of people coming up with pseudo-scientific explanations for why black women are ugly. Get over it already…its just tired
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I don’t find anything attractive about Shriver whatsoever.
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I hear ya, tulio. That jaw is simply too angular for my liking.
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I never associated the feature with any particular ethnic group. It just never occurred to me. I tend to like women with soft and rounded facial features.
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Well, Maria’s face looks rather hard all over.
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That’s funny about the jaw thing, because in my personal experience white women are more likely to have the square jaw look – not blacks and asians.
And besides, square jaw high cheekbones is a decidely supermodel look, isn’t it? Most models have that look and most models are stunning. So what in thee hell is that guy saying?
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I’ve never heard about bw having bigger jaws or larger teeth. She seems to be a very nice person, but not attractive. Large jaws on women look weird to me and does tend to make there look mannish. I don’t know. When I think big chin, I usually picture Jay Leno. Women with big teeth and jaws look like horses. Take Sarah Jessica Parker.
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If my memory serves me correctly, Samson slew a lion with Maria Shriver’s jawbone.
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You are quite correct that certain peoples living in the north probably cooked first. It makes sense and it fits the biological data from across the world.
How Richards transforms a strictly environmental influence (something on the order of ‘people are darker near the equator’) into proof of white superiority is completely beyond me.
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It is the old argument that the north was a crueler place to live and therefore took greater intelligence – whereas in Africa you could just pick bananas off the tree. You see the same argument in Madison Grant and Guy White’s Finland:
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Ahn.
Of course, if we just flipped it around, we could say that the greater biological diversity of tropical climes forced a greater intelligence, etc. etc. [roll eyes]
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I always liked Maria Shivers look she has beautiful eyes also. Strong jawlines look good on some women. It just depends on the woman. Overall she has beautiful features.
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She looked better when she was younger and had more fat on her face. Now she sometimes looks a little scary.
Square jaws and high cheekbones are common in African and Asian women but not in Ainu and white women: they mostly have low cheekbones and a weak jaw – what Richards calls “gracile”
I wonder which particular ethnic group these “theorists” base their “African look” on. I can’t remember ever seeing an African woman with a jaw that remotely resembled Shriver’s, and plenty have low cheekbones. But I thought high cheekbones were a good thing, although I don’t have them. Low cheekbones being a sign of an “evolved” being is something new to me.
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Of course, if AFRICAN women had relatively smaller teeth on average, that would be a call for Richards to qualify their features as “underdeveloped” and “lesser evolved”.
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You got that right.
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Hello !
I share the same opinion as poetess. The black women have the prognathe jaw. The white women have the agnathe jaw. They may more have the square jaw. The asian women have the jaw least prognathe. But I do not know if they have the square jaw. To finish, it is the black and Asian women who the softest forehead. Because white women have a prominent brow ridge.
Thank you !
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Sorry,
I should have written : Poetess.
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>>Why is that? Richards says it is because they ate cooked food long before anyone else. So long, in fact, that their jaws and teeth started to change. Eating cooked food does not require a strong jaw with large teeth.<<
That's the basic Lamarck theory of evolution that no scientist who didn't work for Stalin has believed since 1920. Stalin liked it because it fit the idea of using state power to force the evolution of the "New Communist Man."
There was a study done back in the 90s in which they found a village in Mongolia near the China border that had very little contact with white males and had literally never seen even a picture of a white female.
They showed them groups of pictures of various races of men and women and asked them "which is beautiful."
Not very surprisingly, their choices had a great deal of similarity. Regardless of race, the Mongolians chose as the "beautiful" males those who had heavier brows and jawlines. The "beautiful" females had wider-set eyes, fuller lips, smaller jaws, and higher cheekbones.
That runs pretty consistently among all cultures.
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i love square jaws!weak ones looks weird..this is just my opinion
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I tend to disagree with J richards. The Germans have more massive and pronounced jawlines than most if not all of the white races and based on their achievements would be considered the most intelligent and physically superior of the white skinned people. (just an observation)
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Funny to notice that Richard’s arguments falls apart for the same reasons that yours. I don’t get why asians or blacks gets all pissed off when someone states that they are less intelligent, advanced, etc. than whites. If scientific evidence ever proves so, then, what’s to do about it? What about if its true that black and asian women are less “evolved” then white ones? No amount of your writting will change that, so please stop being that politically correct (and poorly hiddenly racist) and face some facts to have something useful to write about.
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Really now “the good man”? Seriously? Abagond, kick him off or something he is so rude.
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I don’t understand the jaw argument. If you look at the most popular models and the women society says are beautiful, you will see the angular jaw and sunken cheeks that Richards says are primitive. Also the occurrence of that feature is more common on European women. Maybe he got his data reversed or deliberately collected data to support his own bias.
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how the hell did Richards lump ‘whites’ and Ainus together, separate from Africans & Asians, when Ainus are Asian and were originally ‘black’? ignorant…
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Ignorant racist asshatery. What’s wrong with white people?
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I have never found her attractive. She’s always been hard looking.
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Ainus, really? Wasn’t Richards aware of their heavy lip tattoos taking almost all the lower part of faces? And what about the fact that Ainus, like modern Innuits and most Paleo-Asiatic nations, were likely to ferment the food, not to cook it on fire?
But the ideas of beauty are not universal indeed — take the Ainus’ lip tattuage or Japanese ohaguro custom. Even the same person could look differently with different parts of her look emphasised, like Maria Shriver with her current make-up and Maria Shriver with a heavy mascara look differently.
[It’s funny how a same feature influences a perception of beauty; e. g. personally I find skinhead white gilrs ugly and skinhead black girls beautiful and very feminine — don’t know why].
Speaking of the jaw; this had reminded me of Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (161-192 AD), a Roman emperor who used to keep a harem of both sexes where the persons kept had nicknames by their body parts.
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