DISQUS

As a woman, I don't think make-up has anything to do with being successful. Personally I like looking at myself when I have just enough make up on so that you can't tell I'm wearing any make up, but that's me and I don't like to feel "made up". I can say that the "extra effort" that my clients want to see comes in my presentations, the extra hours I work, the quality of my work. I've never met anyone in business who thought "I might have given her that contract if she'd put a bit more make up on".

The problem with your example, Eric, is that make-up does not equal effort any more than showering or wearing deodorant equals effort. It's just a mindless thing we do in the morning and requires next to no effort at all because most of us have done it at least five days a week for over a decade.

Putting extra effort into your appearance, to me, is having a nicely pressed outfit or pants that are hemmed perfectly, cuffs that are the right length... but again, appearance matters so little to me that the only thing that would really stand out would be total sloppiness.

Self-promotion for "smart people" might include being more concerned about the content than the window dressing. JMHO. :)

I don't see anything wrong with this. If a writer was found to be a pedophile then the publisher should have every right to cancel the contract immediately. It makes me feel better about the books I read to my kids.

Great letter! I'm a Canadian, married to an American who hopes to one day come to America. Legally. I don't want to take jobs away from anyone, in fact it's my intention to create more jobs.

As a Canadian, married to an American... currently living in Canada... I am watching this with interest. We intend to move to the US in a couple of years. My husband is American and I know we will STILL be grilled and probed and questioned.

I completely accept that. I know I have nothing to hide, I just want to live with my husband where he wants to live: America.

It really irritates me that so many people are allowed to just live there illegally when there are many of us who want to enter legally and become good, tax paying citizens.