Beaufitul Actrices versus Ugly Actors

Julia Roberts versus Steve Buscemi
Marilyn Monroe versus Mike Meyers
Angelina Jolie versus William Dafoe

Have you noticed how often famous actrices are beautiful, where famous actors don't necessarily need to be the hot sexy top model. Nobody will say that Tom Hanks is the nr. 1 male beauty, although Cameron Diaz might be.

Isn't it remarkable how the roles of "heroines" in Hollywood are often played by beautiful women? Name me ONE single film where a sympathetic main character is played by an 'ugly' woman.
Of course you will respond by saying "what is ugly". But I mean it in the most natural, non-politically-correct way: there are no interesting roles for women who do not fit into the beauty concept.

With men this is completely different. You can have men playing the biggest screen roles, get the biggest pay checks and still be as ugly as the night. Some examples? Woody Harrelson, Josse De Pauw, Tom Hanks, Mike Meyers,...

Ok, you might say that they are not THAT ugly, and some women will even say that they have "character" or "charme, or even worse : "an interesting face"... but do you get my drift? Jay Leno can present his show, but put a woman next to him who is just as ugly as him, and all hell will break loose.

Just look to Belgian Commercial television if you will: when you are elected Miss Belgium, you are sure to become an anchor woman for the news, even if you are as dumb as the backside of a donkey.