Cute girls get away with it

Who can blame this face?

Studies undertaken by one Professor Dean of the Faculty of Relational Psychology at Moxbridge University have shown a proportional relationship between the cuteness of a girlfriend, and the amount of emotionally manipulative bullshit she can get away with.

“In your typical relationship there is often an amount of “acting out” by one party or the other. However, our investigation has shown that if the female is of “cute” appearance – as defined by a randomised group in a laboratory setting – we find unwillingness and/or inability by the male to see her misdeeds as significantly reprehensible.”

In such a relationship, activity such as "repeated cheating" will be seen as stemming from “weakness”; whereas in another relationship it is more likely to be described as “downright fucking selfish.”

Professor Dean went on to add, “Of course both descriptions are biased. Moral weakness and selfishness are really one and the same. The separation is merely semantic.”

Subsequent testing pointed to the “cuteness:mitigation effect” existing not merely within the confines of the two person relationship, but spilling over into the perceptions of mutual associates. “We were curious as to whether or not greater detachment from the incidents provided a less biased view. We concluded maybe a bit, but not really. 

"Perhaps it’s something to do with the prism effect of those glasses they always wear. We’ll have to look into that.”