I just returned from a most instructive pre-dinner drink with a friend before having dinner later with several other friends. My friend is married, and is really just a friend. She's one of those women who are attractive from the inside out, whatever she is wearing and whether she has makeup on or not. And believe me, I'm one of those guys who knows how much of a woman's beauty is due to makeup and the clothes she's wearing, and how much is not.
As chance would have it, we sat at a cafe table next to one 50ish American woman and two 60+ American women, and both of us found our conversation segueing into eavesdropping as we listened to what they were saying. They were discussing the news of the day, which on this particular newsday, involved the fact that Sarah Palin has spent $150,000 on clothes and another $11,400 per week on makeup. None of the three women were in any way upset about this. They seemed to think, in fact that it was completely acceptable. And one of them even put voice to WHY. She said, "Hey, if I had that much money to spend on clothes and makeup, I'd look attractive, too." Her friends agreed wholeheartedly. They were wrong. Speaking as a man, but with the complete agreement of my woman friend, no amount of money could make any of the three of these women attractive. No amount of money could hide what they are inside. The same is true for Sarah Palin.
