Hotter people are more confident, because they've been getting this boost from society that's invisible to them. In their world, people just like them more, treat them better, and they don't see how unattractive people don't get the same treatment.
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I've seen my male friends swarm an attractive women and describe her personality as glowing, her demeanor as confident and assured, when in my opinion she was not actually cool; they were blinded by her face and they were completely unaware to how blinded they were.
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I've also seen really attractive friends get treated well; people smile at them more, pay them more attention in conversations, ask them more questions, are kinder, get more favors, and those attractive friends never once acknowledge that being hot is why they're so confident.
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I'm not sayin all this is bad, that we should treat ppl equally, but I would like a greater acknowledgement and visibility. I'm not usually into 'privilege' conversations but this seems like the biggest unspoken privilege of our time, significantly greater than racial disparity
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yeah I feel like this isn’t spoken about by the intelligentsia because there’s no way to militate against it, unless we’re in a Ted Chiang story, it just Is
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Also difficult for unattractive people to have charismatic champions arguing for their rights, since charisma is so highly correlated w/ attractiveness.
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An ignored disability, right up there with left handedness
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@FranciMinerva studies 'lookism' and has written a lot about our biases in favor of physical attractiveness: https://www.francescaminerva.com/publications -
this is exactly what i wanted thank you
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