They are stalked, harassed, clung to by creeps and sycophants. It’s tough.
People only see them for their looks in many cases. 😮💨
They are always accused of being vain when they do skin care. They are objectified and overly sexualized.
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Upvoting because I disagree.
All what you said is true, but unattractive people also get judged by their look, just in a different way.
But attractive people can use their looks as a superpower too, and unattractive people in general can’t.
Given the exact same circumstances (and acknowledging the shit they have to put up with) I think attractive people at the end of the day get their way through life easier.
Superpower? Some what, but it’s more like regular power.
As a very attractive man, I will say that perhaps in some ways being good looking brings favor, but in the meaningful ways, it often brings judgment and scorn. The biggest false belief of course, is that if you’re a good looking man, you must be a complete misogynist and womanizer. Or just an asshole. So often I have to diffuse the anticipation that I’m walking in as some giant arrogant prick and I’m just not. It’s exhausting dealing with that.
So I might get an extra helping of fries in the bag from a cute server, but it makes day to day life interacting with other people very difficult at times. It’s possible to be a very good person and good looking, the two really don’t have anything to do with each other, but most people don’t intuit that.
Oh, and it’s also exhausting not being able to have normal relationships with women, cuz they almost always have the goo goo eyes. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
I dunno about harder, but this is absolutely a thing that is very rarely discussed.
I have a friend who is very conventionally attractive and the stories I hear about the way people treat them absolutely blows my mind. The out of pocket things people think they’re entitled to say, from passersby on the street to medical professionals, the way they are literally predated upon, it’s vile.
Sure, they get the benefits of being hot, it’s a social lubricant for sure, but what they go through because of it sounds utterly exhausting.
They’re wildly intelligent and absurdly hardworking to boot. But people don’t take them as seriously as they should because all some people see is the flesh they’re contained in. That particular issue affects both the conventionally attractive and the non-. Our society seems too obsessed with looks on the whole, to our collective detriment.
Well said
I recommend being both for a real headfuck. Start ugly, get wise, turn it around. It’s mortifying. But I’d still take uncomfortable old lady flirting, for example, over being invisible.
