manderin-orange:

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jthehungry:

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mens-rights-activia:

The experiences of conventionally attractive people and conventionally unattractive people can be so jarringly different and it really deserves some conversation. But I hate how the only mention of this comes from incels or anti-feminists or other right aligned losers with not an ounce of nuance in their bones lmaooo

Like, your physical attractiveness can shape not just your interpersonal experiences but also real tangible things such as but no limited to whether or not you get a job or being believed as a victim or what kind of roles you can get as an actor or perhaps the length of a sentence or how much help is offered to you in a time of need etc. etc.

I think about this shit so much. And it’s weird to have a conversation about because other males and attractive females usually don’t get it.

• And by the time these “unattractive” people get out and make friends sometimes a life full of outside-looking-in hasn’t prepared them for frequent social behavior. They lose twice.
• Also, people use their social circles as status symbols pretty much right after puberty. So say an unattractive person makes friends with someone popular in a class. That friend isn’t going to make plans to hang out with them outside of that setting.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs even says belongingness is a human fundamental for fulfillment and purpose in life. You can only imagine how hard it must be for people who are also homeless.

I’m currently in a class that discuss the rhetoric of beauty across cultures and some of the articles we’ve analyzed dealt with how some cultures, in particular east Asian ones, emphasize appearance as an indicator of skill and worth. Often, people get plastic surgery for their jobs, to the degree that not getting one puts you at a disadvantage.

Theres a little less nuance but the idea that beauty is an indicator of worth is so concrete that people are permanently changing their appearance to good results, they actually do get the job over conventionally unattractive people. At this stage, being unattractive is equivalent to being lazy because the ability to alter your appearance is there, but you aren’t taking it.

And that brings up classism in all of this because let’s look at who can and cannot afford image altering procedures and products

I mean there are actual documented effects of this. For example, “the halo effect” in psychology is about how people tend to judge those they find attractive as more competent and kind and not to mention less attractive children are going to be thought of a less well behaved by their teachers…it’s even has institutional implications as fat women are more likely to be found guilty by male jurors compared to thinner women! Attractiveness is definitely a form of social capital many people can’t access