Female soldier branded 'too pretty' for Army publicity shots as internal email advises only 'ugly' girls be used in future
Would the public be more likely to accept women on the front lines if they were all ugly?
That is the assumption that one female army colonel seems to be making in a leaked internal email in which she suggests that photos of 'average-looking' and 'ugly' women should be used in PR campaigns to get women into combat roles.
Colonel Lynette Arnhart is leading a team of analysts studying how to integrate women into fighting roles in the army and referenced an article featuring the attractive Corporal Kristine Tejada as an example of how pretty girls deployed on duty undermine the army's attempts convince the public
'In general, ugly women are perceived as competent while pretty women are perceived as having used their looks to get ahead,' wrote Col. Lynette Arnhart in the email exchange seen by Politico.
The messages were sent to Army spokesmen and women to instruct them how to best talk in public about female roles on the front line.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510946/Female-soldier-branded-pretty-Army-publicity-shots-internal-email-advises-ugly-girls-used-future.html
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Too pretty? Cpl. Kristine Tejeda appeared in an article by Gen. Robert W. Cone in Army Magazine. Cone, the TRADOC commanding general, wrote about Soldier 2020, the Army¿s effort to open up all Army jobs to women
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Beauty queen Theresa Vail, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, weighed in on comments made this week by a female Army colonel at Fort Leavenworth who said another female was too pretty to appear in Army publicity photos.
Vail, who represented Kansas at this year’s Miss America pageant and made the top 10, took to Twitter to react to the controversial statements that appeared in a leaked email.
“Unfortunately that is the sick reality and one of the many stereotypes I'm trying to break,” Vail wrote. “However, it is going to take an army of women to break that perception, not just myself.”
Would the public be more likely to accept women on the front lines if they were all ugly?
That is the assumption that one female army colonel seems to be making in a leaked internal email in which she suggests that photos of 'average-looking' and 'ugly' women should be used in PR campaigns to get women into combat roles.
Colonel Lynette Arnhart is leading a team of analysts studying how to integrate women into fighting roles in the army and referenced an article featuring the attractive Corporal Kristine Tejada as an example of how pretty girls deployed on duty undermine the army's attempts convince the public
'In general, ugly women are perceived as competent while pretty women are perceived as having used their looks to get ahead,' wrote Col. Lynette Arnhart in the email exchange seen by Politico.
The messages were sent to Army spokesmen and women to instruct them how to best talk in public about female roles on the front line.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510946/Female-soldier-branded-pretty-Army-publicity-shots-internal-email-advises-ugly-girls-used-future.html
Too pretty? Cpl. Kristine Tejeda appeared in an article by Gen. Robert W. Cone in Army Magazine. Cone, the TRADOC commanding general, wrote about Soldier 2020, the Army¿s effort to open up all Army jobs to women
Beauty queen Theresa Vail, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, weighed in on comments made this week by a female Army colonel at Fort Leavenworth who said another female was too pretty to appear in Army publicity photos.
Vail, who represented Kansas at this year’s Miss America pageant and made the top 10, took to Twitter to react to the controversial statements that appeared in a leaked email.
“Unfortunately that is the sick reality and one of the many stereotypes I'm trying to break,” Vail wrote. “However, it is going to take an army of women to break that perception, not just myself.”