問題：
Were people uglier in the past?
是不是以前的人更醜？
回答：
Keith Hisey：
Perspective is everything.
觀念很重要。
Let's talk women.
來說說女性吧。
Today, the average American female starts shaving her legs at age ten or eleven.
今天，普通的美國女性在10歲或11歲就開始刮腿毛。
By age 25 even SHE has no idea about how hairy she it.
即使到了25歲，很多人對自己的毛髮是否旺盛都沒有概念。
I had to spring for electrolysis for my daughter since I am a hairy SOB and passed some of that on to her...the poor thing.
我不得不給我的女兒買剃毛膏，因為我毛髮旺盛，然後又把這多毛的基因傳給了她，可憐的小傢伙。
Her friends kidded her about her "beaver with sideburns."
她朋友們取消她是“多毛的海狸”。
So daddy paid to remove what nature had given her.
所以當爹的要花錢颳去這大自然的恩賜。
Makeup.
化妝。
The pictures below tell the tale.
下面這些照片展示了化妝的神奇之處。
They don’t call them makeup artists for nothing.
要不然人們也不會無緣無故尊稱那些人為“化妝師”。
People are the same now as in the historic past.
現在的人類和古人其實沒什麼區別。
The only difference is medicine.
唯一的不同在於化妝品。
We do not have pock marked faces like our ancestors did.
我們不會再像古人那樣，頂著自己長痘的臉到處晃悠。
Cameron Diaz without makeup, or playing the part of a meth head.
沒化妝的卡梅隆·迪亞茲，你要說她是在扮演一個吸毒者也說的過去。
Wow, what makeup can do!
哇哦，化了妝果然不一樣！
Scarlet is just a plain jane with even with her nose fixed.
沒有鼻部修容的話，斯嘉麗也只是一個普通的美國女孩。
Eva is well, scary without the makeup and I bet she has a bush that she needs a weed wacker to tame.
伊娃不化妝的時候也很嚇人，我猜她有一桶化妝刷，因為她有太多的缺陷需要修補。
Megan Fox has two chicken pox scars, one on each cheek., plus a lot of bad skin that is visible through her foundation makeup.
梅根·福克斯有兩個痘印，兩邊臉一邊一個，就算畫好了妝，這倆痘印也很明顯，讓人覺得她皮膚狀態很不好。
I want to gag every time I hear Jolie described as “a real beauty,” my god, the woman is hideous.
每次聽人說朱莉是“真正地美人”時我都想吐，媽呀，那女人可真醜。
Goldie Hawn spent way too much time in the sun. Even makeup cannot hide the sun damage on her chest.
戈爾迪·霍恩在太陽下曬了太久，再濃的粉底液遮不住她臉上的曬斑。
Another plain jane bordering on homelie. Kim K. is not beautiful under those pounds of makeup and the surgery she’s had.
另一個相貌平平的女星也很招人煩，成噸的化妝品和醫美也不能把她變漂亮。
Demi is honestly beautiful. She has a pox pock mark on her left cheek.
黛米美的很真實。她左臉頰上有痘痕。
The pock on Megan’s left cheek is more visible in this shot.
這張照片中，梅根左臉上的痘印跟明顯。
Another Hollywood hag the makeup does wonders for. The sad part is makeup cannot hide her defective brain.
這是另一個好萊塢化妝術創造的奇蹟。可惜化妝並不能掩蓋她空無一物的大腦。
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