Do people really get treated better just for looking "better"?

[Anonymous]

I heard about this being true but is this really true?

Yes they do.

No they don't

I've never seen or heard of this before

[ManOnFire]

This is unfortunately a fact of life and part of shallow human nature. If you are considered a conventionally attractive man or woman, yes people often are more likely to regard you in a better way, but especially if you are a woman. Which, women know this and it's how they get away with a lot, and even how they get ahead. Men don't help it either because most men are not smart when it comes to physical attraction and they will fall all over themselves trying to please or favor a woman with a pretty face or nice body. Women take advantage of this, and then men get upset when women use this advantage against them.

[_piotr]

This is not "unfortunately". There is not anything wrong with this at all.

[ManOnFire]

@_piotr Maybe not in your eyes.

[_piotr]

People got different resources at birth. Some have good looks, some people some smart, some have beautiful voice, some got talent for art, etc.. People are not same/equal so their treatment is different. The idea that people are completely equal is false. This is a false "invention" of french revolution.
This is also a problem with democracy, where two drunk boors have more decisive than professor at university.

[handsomelad70]

@_piotr I don't think it works for us blacks. In fact, great-looking black men are often called soft soy boys and not black enough by other blacks.

[ManOnFire]

@_piotr People's different attributes is not a reason to favor one over the other or treat others like shit. We are all different for variety. Pretty faces do not - and not even most of the time - equal value in character or worth. It's just an attribute. It doesn't say anything about a person's true inner value.

[_piotr]

What you are writing is just anger fuelled by jealousy and envy of people who received more at birth. Your attitude creates just pretentious, angry people.

I will never be as beautiful as some models, smart as Einstein, or musically talented like Mozart but I do not go around telling everybody how unfortunate that is that everyone are not as same level as me. I do not expect people to treat me as king of England given by God's grace, because I wasn't born as heir to the throne.

"People's different attributes..." It is a reason to an extend. I do not expect universities to praise mentally challenged people, audience to treat bad artists just as good as musical genius. Or experts of literature treat delusional scribbler as a great poet.
These attributes are values you want it or not. While good character is more valuable it doesn't render rest of attributes compleatly obsolete. Good looks is value.
It is also shallow to deliberately ignore certain aspects of human. So also "shallow" are people who say body (which is half of human being) is not important. The same goes for other things.

Nobody should treat others like shit, we have all basic dignity of being human but you are overboard with this.

[ManOnFire]

@_piotr You're trying to justify your own shallow thinking. I have my own attributes that others would be jealous of, so I have no reason to be jealous of others. I'm just smart enough to know that human value goes much deeper than physical attributes.

[_piotr]

So you are trying to justify your deep thinking that is also flawed as it rejects 50% of human. If you have no jealousy than it should not disturb you that someone appreciates certain attributes of other people. physical attributes are part of human value.

[handsomelad70]

Boys, boys...

[DishLady]

Kind of. There are two simultaneous concepts that hold true…


(Bear with me here, imma geek out a bit… again.)



On school of thought is that “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” —> That the whining, needy, troublesome person will get the most attention (over those who seem capable and independent). This is usually very true… A top student may get a touch of validation from the teacher, but the troublesome student is the one who is constantly getting the teacher to stop and pay attention, to spend extra time to address their problem, to find on and off campus resources, etc etc etc.


The other school of thought is that those who are capable of doing for themselves will earn the respect and favor of others as a matter of fact. —> This is closer to the philosophy followed by folks like Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. Their capable, charismatic appeal gets them what they want, with rather remarkable outcomes.

[Apple1996]

Yes pretty privilege is a real thing but I don't think it's necessarily a good thing because then they also attract the creeps. I'd rather be ugly and get no attention or privileges than have creeps following me around.

[TommyMountainFigure]

Yes, and we can try an experiment to prove it.

Picture this scenario:-

You have a successful company that employs 50 people. One day you decide you need to hire a new member of staff so you conduct interviews. Of all the interviewees you find 2 candidates of equal intelligence, and equally suited to the job. They have both shown references to be of good character and punctual time keeping.

So now it comes down to dress sense and the vibe you you get from their 'look.'

Which one would you employ?

[TheRealPepperPotts]

Yes, I am beginning to believe it's true. I don't think I'm pretty (I'd say average), but people usually treat me well. I just stay fit, maintain my hair and skin and choose quality clothes. On the flip side, some of my older friends get treated poorly even though they are great people. But when I am with them, it doesn't happen. So ridiculous and shallow. I suppose all of us are shallow to an extent though. We don't date certain people due to looks, so I suppose I can't criticize it.

[dustybiker2]

My brother in law was just saying he gets tipped better when he keeps his electric car waxed to a pristine shine. He drives Lyft as an evening job for a little extra.
It's universally true. You put in effort to look good yourself or make something look good and you and or it is treated better.
I always wipe my engine off before taking it in for a service I am not doing myself. They see a clean engine and I know they will take better care of my truck.

[LazerBean]

Yes, it does happen and virtually everybody does it to various degrees. There's a lot of things that goes into looking good aside from genetics. If you take the same person and see how they are treated when they are clean and well kept versus how they are treated when they are dirty and raggedy looking, they will still be perceived as better looking in the former and treated better.

[TheorionMage]

At a fundamental level, Behavioral Psychologists found even newborn infants show preference to culturally-preferred appearances. They coo and smile more readily to 'court' positive reciprocal favored attention. Being 'cute' hence 'desirable' ... imparts preferential survival opportunities. Consider what being 'hot' aka 'sexy' actually means! "Soliciting preferential tactile arousal for neurological chemistry". ~

[Purpleronnie]

Well now ,” looking better” , that’s from the eye of the beholder right ? And thinking that someone is good looking doesn’t always mean that they are universally regarded as being good looking ! .


Generally though id say yes , people do get treated better if they are regarded as being good looking … to a point but beauty is only skin deep !

[Nirmroth]

Kinda but its more like subconscious.

If someone really handsome or attractive smiles at you, it will feel better for your ego than if someone very unattractive smiles at you "creeply" as example.

you're prone to be more nice and mindfull to something you find cute or beautiful than something that isn't.

[avery58]

This guy went from being a gang member to a wealthy model after his mugshot went viral

[PeachyPie93]

Yes its a fact, you will see it first hand if you have a sibling who is better looking then you. The way people are to good looking people is very evident, almost unfairly so.

[adventurous-1]

image is key to how the world see's you and set's how people react to your presents and thus treatment of you, do you get treated differently according to how your dressed and groomed from casual to formal, from worn out but comfortable clothing, little rough looking and unshaven to trendy stylish clothing, clean shaven with a good haircut. It's impacted how I've been treated from my own personal experiences and that's just my history.

[blondfrog]

Yes but life's not fair so suck it up. Everything has its pros and cons. While they get treated better most of the kindness being send their way is insincere and they tend to get treated more like a piece of meat or some object. Ashes to ashes dust to dust.

[Jessikaah91]

Yeh people always get treated better because they look better. Which is funny in a way because a lot of people that have the looks don't always have the personality to match, so while their getting treated great they're treating you like crap.

[Minky17]

Yes it's true. It's called pretty privilege and you can get doors opened for you, groceries paid for, and free money just by wearing a dress, having a pretty face and smiling at people

[Account]

I am torn on this. Generally yes but there are times that it depends.
On certain occasions I have noticed that people erroneously assume that good looking people are not clever.

[Amandanator]

I know for men it’s definitely true. If so many men are saying that only a small percentage of men are getting dates regularly then why do so many women deny it? Looks definitely make a difference.

[HawkPerception]

Pretty privilege is a real thing and likely always will be.

https://youtu.be/8CtxpdDUCmI?si=bhClFLwRNjS7StbJ

[MikeTheBartender]

Fuckkkkkk yes... I can't believe 8 percent think no. We SHOULD ALL treat each other equally. But that's far from reality. A hot woman will always be treated better by all. And a hot man honestly will be treated better as well. It's just life.

[Youngbrain]

Absolutely even ARISTOTE said : "A beautiful face is a better advantage than any letters of recommendation." and it says everything🤷

[just_a_potato]

Of course pretty people are treated better, it's called the halo effect. This applies to both men and women, though they manifest in different ways and situations depending on their gender.

[Kelley1]

They are more likely to be hired and, without even being aware they are doing it, teachers even give them better grades.

[OfMiceandMen]

I'm sure happens all the time. Good looking women/men often reap the rewards, but typically those people are at the shallow end of the pool.

[rienna888]

Yess man, people are only nice to me because im pretty!!! When I looked my worst, everybody treated me like garbage, its so sad :(

[Billlewis]

Yes, ma'am, I agree. However, in addition to the considerable motivation provided by your breathtaking beauty, I also defer to you with such piety because you're so mean.

[ProbablyClueless]

People claim that happens. As far as I can tell, it only happens up to a certain point. I've seen plenty of good looking people get treated like absolute shit constantly.

[Sharkstealth]

Yes, I watch it all the time. A good looking guy talks to a girl and no matter what he says or does she looks dazed. A not so good looking guy talks to her and she just ignores him and walks off.

[Pohjolan]

To a extent. Like they did in UK this experiment where a actor would pretend to be unconscious on the footpath.

When they were wearing a business suit people were much more willing to help than if they were wearing casual clothing.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Yes.

And, I'm guilty of taking advantage.

[paledreams]

Yes, I'm sure I've done it myself in my lifetime so far with women 🤩 ♀️ that cleavage, or that face, or that fashion sense, I tell ya lol 👀👀

[Telekinetic-Potato]

It’s true but what’s more true is you get treated better for being more charismatic.

[coachTanthony]

Of course it's true doesn't mean it's right.

[Brady]

Sometimes, long ago on TV they talkd about peopl getting paid more at jobs 4 lookin attractiv. Long ago someone said at their school you get bullied unless you're beautiful of tough.

[Xoirwinkan]

Of course, why do you think the concept of bad guys looking ugly is so common - people have a positive first impression of an attractive person

[LiamJHayden]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. For example, I have witnessed pretty girls getting treated like sh*t in business situations by grumpy female bosses.

[Massageman]

or from any number of other overt physical features - height, bust size, evenness of their tan, etc.

[DrPepper12]

Yes. Scientifically proven. The closer you are to the golden ratio (1:1.618) themore attractive EVERYTHING is.

[DarkLegacy]

Yes women always do and they are usually very nasty people. People like this should get very bad treatment to compensate it.

[exitseven]

This is absolutely true, especially with women.

[Nerdvana]

In my experience, unfortunately it's very true. As well the opposite is true. If you are not attractive, people are not very friendly to you.

[RingOfFire]

I think they do. Looks do affect the way people treat you.

[Emmytexrex]

Yes but not Everytime though has it happened to you?

[handsomelad70]

Attractive folk earn MUCH MORE MONEY than their plainer counterparts.

[OtterMan68]

It's a fact. There's actually been experiments on this

[msc545]

Yes, they do. There have been MANY studies about this.

[KelsoAlexander]

By the masses yup, individuals, maybe not but 90% of the time yeah

[PBandJ_Nerd]

Unfortunately, yes.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Yes, but its highly subjective.

[Crazzyyworld]

they make tons of $

[Anonymous]

LMAO!

I wish.

[PA19062024]

No, I don't think it's true.

[White_Swan_]

Yes, I think there is such a thing.

[MemeSupreme]

yeah

[Kingofkings1992]

Nope. Pretty privilege is not a thing

[DreamLife7]

Yes..

[MacDaddyRico]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Ofcourse its true