Is being attractive and hot a privilege (for both men and women)? and how?

[Anonymous]

[abc3643]

Yes. I said so yesterday in this question
Why people think beautiful people automatically have beautiful lives? ↗
although I do not know if it was you who asked that earlier question, but I suspect so.

"Pretty privilege" (and yes "handsome privilege" for men) is a very real phenomenon.

As I mentioned in yesterday's answer, this article explains it well...

www.lifeintelligence.io/.../pretty-privilege-bias-what-we-can-do

This is the journal paper that introduced the phrase "pretty privilege".

www.aeaweb.org/.../000282806776157515
Why Beauty Matters
Markus M. Mobius
Tanya S. Rosenblat
American ECONOMIC REVIEW
VOL. 96, NO. 1, MARCH 2006
(pp. 222-235)

Abstract
We decompose the beauty premium in an experimental labor market where "employers" determine wages of "workers" who perform a maze-solving task. This task requires a true skill which we show to be unaffected by physical attractiveness. We find a sizable beauty premium and can identify three transmission channels: (a) physically attractive workers are more confident and higher confidence increases wages; (b) for a given level of confidence, physically attractive workers are (wrongly) considered more able by employers; (c) controlling for worker confidence, physically attractive workers have oral skills (such as communication and social skills) that raise their wages when they interact with employers. Our methodology can be adopted to study the sources of discriminatory pay differentials in other settings.

[Heolurt]

It definitely is, as an ugly person I've seen good looking people get jobs without actual interviews, people are nicer and actually talk and become friends with good looking people, good looking people get to date. Good looking girls can speed and get out of tickets and good looking guys can hit on girls without being called ugly. As an ugly guy I have to watch my words and my tone because I could be called a pervert, creep or worse. As an ugly guy I can't take a shortcut to my house through the park or I get looked at as a creepy pedo loser predator and instead have to walk 2 blocks around past the park 2 blocks down the neighborhood and 2 blocks back and that's just to go to the store.

[HighValue]

For employment purposes, being attractive benefits women for sure, but it actually can be a detriment for men because when women become interested in them at work, when the man isn't interested in her, she may make false accusations to get back at him because some can't handle a man not being interested in them.

[FilmGuy93]

Yes, but only to a certain level. If you are attractive, but only a bit more attractive than the average man/woman, you live life on easy mode. If you're actually like... legit model hot, people will give you shit because they think you need to "get a taste of what life is like for the rest of us."

[exitseven]

It is like winning the lottery. Attractive people are preferred when it comes to hiring and being accepted to certain organizations. Women especially have a big advantage.

[Avicenna]

Of course it is. Some people (sometimes many for those who are really hot) will treat you differently because of your attractiveness.

[MCheetah]

Sure as hell is. There's no need to explain the super obvious.

[OddBeMe]

Interesting…should it be seen as plus to standard looking humans? Or should we be equitable and let pretty people have their upsides?

Nah, toss them in dungeons.

[joeldalton]

There's no such thing as 'privilege'. People are individuals with differences. We all have a set of advantages and disadvantages in our lives.

[Anonymous]

Very much. However there are some drawbacks.

[CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS]

You get better jobs and people are nicer to you. You are also more likely to find love

[ChiTown33]

I think it depends on how you look at

[ChiTown33]

It..

[Wise4myage]

I say it’s more like pure luck.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

It can be an obstacle. Internal conflict