{"id":2051,"date":"2013-04-23T06:44:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2013-04-23T06:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:44:48","slug":"too-handsome-for-women-to-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/04\/23\/too-handsome-for-women-to-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Too handsome for women to resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the Telegraph: Three men were forcably removed from a festival because they were too handsome and women would likely be unable to resist them.<\/p>\n<p>Huh? I&#8217;ve lived a long time and have somehow been able to control myself around good looking men. However, these men must have been extraordinary so. Evidently. Huh.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>The delegates from the United Arab Emirates were in attendance at the Jenadrivah Heritage &amp; Culture Festival in Riyadh, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/saudiarabia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi<\/a><\/strong> capital, when religious police officers stormed the stand and evicted the men because \u201cthey are too handsome,\u201d according to the Arabic language newspaper, Elaph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cA festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission [for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices] members feared female visitors could fall for them,\u201d Elaph reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>I&#8217;m speechless. So. Many. Questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How old were these women who evidently couldn&#8217;t bear &#8220;falling&#8221; for one of these men? I wonder what the dudes around the three men felt like as these gorgeous men were led away. It couldn&#8217;t have been good on their ego. I&#8217;d have loved to see the sanctimonious faces of the ensemble dragging them away.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the back story?<\/p>\n<p><span>I wonder if any of the teen heart throbs (like Justin Bieber) tour there? Probably not. I wonder if they have any equivalents to Bieber?I don&#8217;t know of one adolescent female who hasn&#8217;t &#8220;fallen&#8221; for someone somewhere along the line.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I simply don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/saudiarabia\/10000341\/Saudi-Arabia-deports-irresistible-men-deemed-too-handsome-to-women.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From the Telegraph: Three men were forcably removed from a festival because they were too handsome and women would&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}