Supporters of right-wing politics are prettier, more confident and satisfied than those on the left, conservative commentator Daisy Cousens has told a libertarian conference in Brisbane on Saturday.
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Ms Cousens pointed to research, including one study published in the Journal of Public Economics, which found a link between right-wing politicians and good looks.
Researchers found good-looking people were more likely to earn more and wealthier people tended to oppose redistributive government policies.
They also said attractive people might receive better treatment than other people in society and therefore saw the world as more just.
Ms Cousens, speaking at LibertyFest at Royal on the Park, said the “leftie researchers” came to those conclusions because they were “annoyed because their side is the ugly side of politics”.
“They’re like, oh well, fine then, that’s because you’re evil, that’s why you’re prettier than me,” she said.
A male audience member had claimed feminists were “generally pretty unattractive”, including their personalities, and said “no man is ever going to touch them”, before asking for Ms Cousens’ opinion.
Ms Cousens said people on the right were on average more attractive because they were more confident.
“Particularly the women, and have a much more grounded sense of self, and are not afraid to let men be men and women be women,” she said.
“And if you have a really great sense of self-satisfaction and you’re not feeling like you’re constantly struggling and you’re happy to acknowledge the differences between people, well of course you’re going to have a nicer personality because you’re going to be happier.”
Ms Cousens said there was a complex among feminists that equated unattractive personalities to unattractive looks, although not always.
“It’s a confidence issue and it’s a lack of kind of self-groundedness and self-satisfaction,” she said.
Ms Cousens also took aim at what she described as the “identity politics oppression Olympics”.
She said there was a “victimology scale” where straight white males were at the bottom, while black women, trans and gay people had more “victim points”.
"Those at top of the scale are granted the loudest voice and allowed to express themselves in whatever way they want," she said.
"So they can be as crass, as bitchy, as bigoted and as spiteful as they choose.
"But because they have accrued the most victim points, nobody is allowed to reprimand them."
Ms Cousens said people at the bottom of the scale were condemned to sit in silence while they were bullied and unable to defend themselves against a barrage of hatred for simply existing in the wrong form.
She said straight white men were used as a scapegoat.
“The modern left still thinks we’re in the '90s, they still think white men are the absolute most advantageous people ever and that we’re still fighting against the Christian right, they have this thing on about Christians,” she said.
