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It is sheer ignorance to say that people should not judge these two men by their appearances. They have made decisions about their appearance based on the image they want to project. The well-dressed guy may be a poor schmuck in a borrowed suit, and the dirty fellow may have chipped his tooth while working in the yard behind his mansion, but either way, each projects an image with his appearance. Saying that they do not, and asking people not to make judgments about them, is to bury your head in the sand.
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I think here you actually prove my point. Yes, most people can and will make judgements about these two people, but in your example they would be the wrong ones. That is my point. Judging people based on their looks is completely useless and ignorant.
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It doesn't really matter if people's judgements are right or wrong, they will still be made. In Imax's example, if both men leave the dentist's office and make their way to their vehicles, a carjacker waiting outside isn't going to pay attention to the dirty fellow as he makes his way to his '98 Saturn SL2, he's going to follow the well dressed guy that makes his way to his leased Hummer H2. The bad guy doesn't have anything else to go by other than these two guys' appearances, so he chooses to rob the guy that "looks" like he's got a lot of money. It's not the well dressed man's fault that he got robbed, he didn't dress like that in order to get robbed, but it happened anyway.
A woman that dresses sleazy just because she likes to wear that type of clothing is going to get a lot of attention. She might not be "easy" but she projects an image that regardless of whether she likes it or not, she's going to get a lot of attention and some of it might be rather crude. Now woman at the same workplace may dress really conservative and garner little attention for her looks, but may actually work evenings as a stripper or prostitute, or just be really promisquous (sp?). Regardless of whether other people's judgements are right or wrong, they are going to have some sort of affect on the judged, it can be very little or it can be alot. People may often be undeserving of the affects that they receive from their appearances, but that doesn't change the fact that it happens, right or wrong.