Superficial shopping.

I'm a very shallow person, I admit. Is that such a bad thing though? My bad trait was finally admitted yesterday. It all started with a spontaneous adventure to Tesco's. I know what you're thinking, adventurous eh? Anyway, I was in the car park; and in amongst the cars and flyaway trolleys I saw a couple weaving towards me, the woman looked about 50, but she hid it well. She was dressed in a pencil skirt and suit jacket,complimented with pearls and perfect hair. Colourful...clean cut...smart...wonderful. The one thing that let her down, though, was what was attached to her hand. A beast of a man. He looked like the case study for a gastric-bypass gone terribly awry. The icing on the cake was the food spilt down his t-shirt.
My outburst at this, followed by the accusation of me being 'so shallow' has led me to think...is that really such a bad thing?
I read an article recently highlighting that research done has found that 95% of employers, if faced with an overweight person and a person of healthy weight applying for the same job, would hire the thinner person. This was contradicted by research proving that overweight people are actually generally harder working. Look at me, talking about them as if they're a different race. I'm not fatist, I just think that if it can be helped, it should be.
Surely I can't be the only one that double-takes oddly matched couples where one is obviously better looking than the other. I'm no Angelina Jolie myself, but in the past I've had my fair share of facially challenged people asking me on dates, and I just felt a bit insulted.
I don't think that shallowness is a bad thing, or anything to hide. Look at Obama for example, yes he's enviably driven and very smart, but his good looks might contribute a tiny bit to his popularity. I think that people can subconsciously make decisions about people based on their looks, employers included, it's just human nature. I'd hire a Kevin Bacon over a Kevin Spacey any day.