Stick to the books or hit the gym More women want smaller waists rather than a brighter future

with botox, liposuction and Hollywood starlets so much that women believe their waistline is more important than their mind?

Beach diet junkies.

The mind may be a terrible thing to waste, but the waist is also a terrible thing to mind. In fact, most women would rather have a thinner waist than a higher I.Q., according to the results of a recent nationwide woman’s survey.

According to the survey, when asked if women would prefer a slimmer waist or a higher I.Q., 56 percent of the women questioned chose the slimmer waist.

As a woman, I am embarrassed that more than half of the surveyed women would opt to be lighter than brighter! Has society diluted our brains

After reading this survey and several similar studies, it appears that women’s beauty and value in our society has long been judged through the eyes, not theears. I am very much discouraged by the findings of this survey.

Ibelieve the troubling results of this survey are directly correlated to American culture. We live in a visually focused culture that rewards and worships the slim and beautiful, but pays little or no attention to those that fall mer than a better qualified, chubbier co-worker will make 30 percent more money each year, according to another national survey.

“ The average girl would rather have b eauty than brains, because she knows the average man can see much better than he c an think.”

The fact that a majority of the women surveyed said that they would rather be thinner than smarter demonstrates society’s preference for looks over brains in women. Society has been injecting more than botox into American women; it has been injecting our minds with the incredulous idea that beauty is power.

Whatever happened to the phrase, “knowledge is power?”

It appears that that notion has been swallowed up by the nocarbohydrate dieters and South

As I read the results to these credible surveys, I couldn’t help but wonder if my time was better spent at the gym trimming my waistline or in the classroom earning the almighty college diploma?

-Anonymous short in these areas. With that in mind, it is no wonder that women strive to have Jessica Simpson’s abs and butt rather than the amazingly bright, Harvard-educated mind of Natalie Portman.

What is even more discouraging to a female college student like myself is another statistic that proves that looking good pays well. Women who are slim-