Pretty privilege

[DeadOnArrivalCel]

It’s 2023 and we still defer to pretty people. Please make it stop

As Kate Moss talks up the magic of crystal healing – and absolutely no one seems to acknowledge that it’s bogus – Oliver Keens asks whether we’d all be better off if we threw away the shackles of rewarding and indulging the incredibly beautiful among us

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Bianor]

 

[Lonelyus]

We need Ugly Privilege

 

[rope infinity ♾️]

We need Ugly Privilege

You already have it, it's called inceldom.

 

[NorthernWind]

Pretty people can say that 2+2=5 and sheep will adore it.

 

[DeadOnArrivalCel]

It’s not a revelation to say that good-looking people are lucky in a way regular folk aren’t. But the depth of “pretty privilege” is quite amazing once you examine it. A fleet of studies confirm that – in a financial sense, for example – there is what’s known as a “beauty bias”. Economist Daniel S Hamermesh’s book Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful shows that this group in society not only get paid more in terms of salary, but they’re also offered more employment opportunities and are even able to secure financial loans easier too. Hamermesh further ponders whether those at the opposite end of the appearance spectrum should receive government support

 

[Lonelyus]

You already have it, it's called inceldom.

Its a privilege to be ugly then