A V-day adjacent question: why don't we talk about beauty/attractiveness as a type of "privilege"? B/c it certainly is (tho in some situations also a hindrance). Is it too personal? Too subjective? Do we just want to pretend we all see past that? Tell me your thoughts please.
Psych research shows strong consensus across people & cultures about who's beautiful, and beauty influences many other social attributions we make ('halo effect'). In sexual selection terms, it's been a key form of 'privilege' for millions of years.
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The writings of
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Though the concept of ‘privilege’ in our discourse depends for its meaning on the prevailing victim culture, transposing Marxist categories of class conflict to sex/race, abolishing individual distinction.
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Why then do most people not have ‘outrageously good looks’. Surely social status and power are greater indicators of possible success?
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20 thousand anyway.
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Yeah and I still doubt that study you wrote about in the mating mind (I think) where you claimed that beautiful people are more intelligent. They may be less neurotic but a couple of points above the mean doesn't mean shit.
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