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28 Stories About Life Just Being Sooo Much Easier For "Pretty" And "Thin" People That Will Honestly Make You So Mad
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-sharing-experiences-pretty-privilege-111503866.html
Amusing, uncommon Buzzfeed article today on above link taken from Reddit threads about how people are treated differently depending on physical attractiveness. The authors discussed those being overweight versus thin and how attractive people are treated better in many ways than plain much less facially unattractive others. Generally public discussion about advantages of being attractive are rare as though it is a taboo. Much comes across at non-verbal communication levels most have little awareness of. More interesting is a read of Comments that reflects how strongly many feel about the subject from both sides.
Years ago, dominant Ivy League elites along with their Wallstreet financial masters and neoconservative politicians moved society towards diversity for the sake of corporate growth, wealth, and various social narratives. That evolved into globalism. Now people from across the planet from A to Z at all levels of wealth and physical attractiveness are for the first time mixing in new ways that grates against fairness and equality due to ingrained human nature. Third world indigenous people whose ancestors propagated successfully over hundreds of generations more due to an ability to survive harsh environments, have physical appearances generally much less attractive than those whose ancestry occurred in ancient kingdoms where male nobles ruled and often chose the most attractive women in their lands at mates while choosing the tallest, strongest males for their guards and armies. Mated couples across the world over millennia have spent enormous effort with elaborate ceremonies around mate selections for their children. It is only during this latest generation that issues the article myopically brings to public light, have been raised.
There are of course other ways people are appearance judged so the article lacks balance and given obvious human nature is misplaced. For instance as an athletic short thin 5'6" Caucasian male, I experienced much unfavoritism in nearly all white California suburban K12 schools thus learned to live with it. When I was forced into the military during the Viet Nam War, I found it all much worse. The first thing my Lackland AFB (San Antonio) TI did was appoint the tallest men squad leaders and made me one of two flashlight carrying road guards. Santa Clara County with a population of over 2 million is one of the most diverse ethnically on the planet as it has been a Mecca for highly educated. It is also one of the most expensive. Many at lower skill levels attracted by employment also live here by sharing dense housing. Over my 5 decades in the county, the ethnic mix has changed enormously. There is considerable ethnic marriage mixing. And also much more cultural divisiveness.
From earliest K12 years, I have always had a strong natural attraction to any at least reasonably physically attractive females. And am comfortable and glad in all ways with that reality. Unlike those in management, I rarely have been in situations where attractiveness bears on any decisions. So tend to be watching from the outside. In most tech corps, it is sales and management where it tends to play out.
60 minutes once had an episode where they had a row of men apply for NYC stockbroker jobs with hidden cameras. There were a couple tall nice looking men modestly dressed and several shorter than average men wearing fancy suits and with superior credentials in education and work experiences. Some of the short men also had the more handsome faces. The videos showed hiring stockbroker managers gushing continuously with obvious smiling non-verbals over the taller men while ignoring ANY of the short men. That is the kind of world our nation has been led by.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-sharing-experiences-pretty-privilege-111503866.html
Amusing, uncommon Buzzfeed article today on above link taken from Reddit threads about how people are treated differently depending on physical attractiveness. The authors discussed those being overweight versus thin and how attractive people are treated better in many ways than plain much less facially unattractive others. Generally public discussion about advantages of being attractive are rare as though it is a taboo. Much comes across at non-verbal communication levels most have little awareness of. More interesting is a read of Comments that reflects how strongly many feel about the subject from both sides.
Years ago, dominant Ivy League elites along with their Wallstreet financial masters and neoconservative politicians moved society towards diversity for the sake of corporate growth, wealth, and various social narratives. That evolved into globalism. Now people from across the planet from A to Z at all levels of wealth and physical attractiveness are for the first time mixing in new ways that grates against fairness and equality due to ingrained human nature. Third world indigenous people whose ancestors propagated successfully over hundreds of generations more due to an ability to survive harsh environments, have physical appearances generally much less attractive than those whose ancestry occurred in ancient kingdoms where male nobles ruled and often chose the most attractive women in their lands at mates while choosing the tallest, strongest males for their guards and armies. Mated couples across the world over millennia have spent enormous effort with elaborate ceremonies around mate selections for their children. It is only during this latest generation that issues the article myopically brings to public light, have been raised.
There are of course other ways people are appearance judged so the article lacks balance and given obvious human nature is misplaced. For instance as an athletic short thin 5'6" Caucasian male, I experienced much unfavoritism in nearly all white California suburban K12 schools thus learned to live with it. When I was forced into the military during the Viet Nam War, I found it all much worse. The first thing my Lackland AFB (San Antonio) TI did was appoint the tallest men squad leaders and made me one of two flashlight carrying road guards. Santa Clara County with a population of over 2 million is one of the most diverse ethnically on the planet as it has been a Mecca for highly educated. It is also one of the most expensive. Many at lower skill levels attracted by employment also live here by sharing dense housing. Over my 5 decades in the county, the ethnic mix has changed enormously. There is considerable ethnic marriage mixing. And also much more cultural divisiveness.
From earliest K12 years, I have always had a strong natural attraction to any at least reasonably physically attractive females. And am comfortable and glad in all ways with that reality. Unlike those in management, I rarely have been in situations where attractiveness bears on any decisions. So tend to be watching from the outside. In most tech corps, it is sales and management where it tends to play out.
60 minutes once had an episode where they had a row of men apply for NYC stockbroker jobs with hidden cameras. There were a couple tall nice looking men modestly dressed and several shorter than average men wearing fancy suits and with superior credentials in education and work experiences. Some of the short men also had the more handsome faces. The videos showed hiring stockbroker managers gushing continuously with obvious smiling non-verbals over the taller men while ignoring ANY of the short men. That is the kind of world our nation has been led by.
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