I've noticed that the minute a person who happens to be attractive succeeds many people claim their success is only because of their looks. Even if it is evident that person has worked hard to get where they need to be a lot people still insist they only got there because of their looks.
Isn't this the opposite of privilege? Somebody who has worked hard to get where they need to get has been reduced to nothing but their looks. Barely anyone wants to listen to their stories, but everyone just looks at their face.
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Why do people throw "pretty privilege" in front of so many things?
Well, cause T. V has the masses believin someone bein closer to the conventional standard of beauty gets them cheat codes in life.. Whilethat is true sometimes, it's really not that extreme most times.. Attractive people gotta work just as work as anybody else really.. Unless they know how to exploit themselves.. And that's mainly women..
People just get jealous because they feel like no one should be so lucky as to be both good looking and successful. So they try to take away either part by talking down to such persons.
people (not all but a significant proportion) have a special kind of resentment for attractive people who also appear to be smart, hard-working, and kind. what? you can't be all those things, right? a person can't be that perfect? i am not trying to humble-brag here, but i think i am quite attractive (judging by the guys who keep asking me out each day). i am in a top university, with a 3.8 CGPA. i also do my best to be kind to everyone, and all i judge a person on is their behaviour/personality. i NEVER judge people for their appearance, ethnicity, disability, or any other factor beyond their control. my parents don't have a shitload of cash. i worked my ass off to get everywhere and everything. i study 6-9 hours a day and work a part-time job to help pay back my student loans because i sure as hell am not expecting my parents or a handsome beau to pay them for me. nothing's been "handed to me on a silver platter," with the exception of a free water bottle maybe and the occasional guy who holds the door for me, with a beaming smile from ear to ear, expecting a special kind of thank you in return, if you know what i mean.
it is infuriating and utterly vexing when i hear people bitching about "she's just a pretty face. she just skated by in life. everything's been handed to her." and i want to go there and ask them who it is exactly that gave me everything, because it certainly wasn't them, or the majority of people with their mentality. to those kinds of people, i simply block and ignore. i just don't give a damn. i know myself. i know the kind of person i am. i always try to be kind to everyone, but if people are nasty to me, they become nobodies in my eyes, and i could really care less about them. people who care about getting to know the real me are the ones that matter.
Attractive people still have to work to be attractive. Attractive guys have to work out and shave and diet etc. to be really attractive.
Attractive girls have to do their makeup and hair and make sure they've achieved naturally impossible beauty to be on top
Most people don't realize they could actually be attractive if only they stopped sitting on their asses making excuses and started working on themselves.
I was extremely fat a year ago and didn't really take too much care of myself day-to-day. I would consider myself a 3 or just barely a 4, but after grinding the last year and trying different styles of haircuts and clothing, i would now consider myself an 8.
Because they need something to blame besides themselves. So few people accept personal responsibility, and instead blame something that you can't even prove the existence of. It's no different than saying you didn't get the job, boyfriend, new car, etc because "god didn't want it to happen" It's impossible to prove otherwise, so it's a fast, easy copout that you can pull to save yourself from actually looking inwards and thinking "wow, i'm not special like everyone told me when I was a kid" and having to actually grow up.
They underestimate those people because they're simply jealous. They think being beautiful will get you anywhere you want in life. They think it helps you in achieving in anything. Although being beautiful does help in certain areas but being good looking alone doesn't help you in getting success. Hard work, determination , skills, talent, etc. These are the things that makes you successful. Being Beautiful isn't always a good thing, as not only people underestimate you and makes many wrong assumptions about you, it also makes them prone to sexual harassment.
I just wanna understand why you caring so much about this. But besides that pretty priveledge does exist, it's just kinda different for both genders. When people see a good looking girl they will try and bend their back for them because of a chance they could get close to her. A good looking guy would get more attention from a women then most guys in the room, unless his personality is shit.
I mean if you watching porn, most guys gonna watch the one with a attractive girl in it, making that girl more successful.
That girl who's non stop posting on ig is gonna get hit up by a modeling agency soon because she got good features.
Like I don't know how many examples I gotta drop for you
If you think pretty privilege isn't real, just move to a country where people are taller and more attractive than you on average, and you can see what hard work gets you.
Pretty people are worthless for anything else besides sitting there looking pretty. I would never trust or rely on a pretty person for anything. They're like children who never had to grow up.
" If you think pretty privilege isn't real, just move to a country where people are taller and more attractive than you on average, and you can see what hard work gets you. " What is it you're trying to say?
"Pretty people are worthless for anything else besides sitting there looking pretty." Oh so, they could study really hard, become of a high profession but because you find them pretty, you think they're only good for their looks?
I'm saying that they are INCAPABLE of developing work ethic, people around them will not LET them struggle and fail. They are never allowed to "grow up," they get treated like little kids by everybody for their whole lives.
I'm not saying they're worthless as some kind of insult, it's not their fault, but they ARE worthless. Being pretty makes them worthless. They can't overcome it.
They never get to experience real life. They are protected and sheltered and given every hand up, every bit of help that's available to be given, every protection, every acceptance, every affection.
This makes them worthless through no fault of their own.
@Bananaman177 Well, let's pray no members of your immediate family are, God forbid, remotely attractive. that would, according to you, make them "worthless children" who "never grow up."
it certainly helps to be good looking, but i don't see it work the way that you stated as much today. i think attractive people have more confidence so they'll step up for a promotion more often than someone who is less attractive because that person is dealing with self-esteem issues.
lol, you think acting, music, and modelling is all about looking pretty? lol. you forgot about the "talent" aspect. this is why not every hot person can be an actor. some of the best actors are not even the best looking, but they're good.
Well there is something to that. YouTube is a good example, whenever a pretty girl does anything remotely intresting or mediocre such as playing drums, guitar skateboarding etc praise is heaped upon her but if say a not so pretty girl did it no one would care. I'm considered pretty by many and I've got to say it opens a lot of doors for me.
Claiming that you succeeded because of pretty privilege, or white privilege, or any other privilege, gives the accuser an automatic excuse for why they also did not succeed. Winners have results and losers have excuses.
This is a sentiment that has always existed-- and it's always been a complicated matter as well. Do people, as animals (because that's indeed what humans are), treat more attractive members of our species better than less attractive ones? In certain subtle ways? Yes, we do, and there's not going to be any change to that. Because, simply put, humans are animals. However, that doesn't mean that attractive people who are successful are only successful due to their looks; that's absurd.
Well, I have never appointed ugly fat women in any job ever. I like to be surrounded by beautiful women, they are far more successful in making deals with men. PROVEN FACT. My wife would select any men I wanted to employ, nerds only worked in the back offices. The face of the company must say it all. Sorry men and women, that's me.
A pretty person gets more opportunities then ugly even if they still need to work hard they have a chance where the ugly doesn't no matter how hard they work. This is why this comes up.
Well sex will always sell things. So a lot of the times yes. But obviously not always, a lot also work for it. Attractive people will usually gave a easier time in life.
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