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The Greatest Privilege We Hardly Talk About: Beauty
But there’s a plot twist: an absence of pretty privilege doesn’t necessarily condemn you to a life less extraordinary. People are dynamic, attraction is fickle, and charm, intelligence, and wit will get you a lot further than looks can (even if you have to put more effort in them). Our appetite for beauty demands some variety, and if everyone looks... See more
Sable Yong • Pretty People Really Do Have It Better
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Pretty privilege is a form of self-sustaining energy, in that way—all the positive feedback that attractive people receive instills a kind of self-worth in them that they are indeed deserving of everything they desire, which makes their endeavors that much more persuasive. After all, believing in yourself is necessary for others to believe in you t... See more
Sable Yong • Pretty People Really Do Have It Better
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Although it is generally acknowledged that good-looking people have an advantage in social interaction, research indicates we may have sorely underestimated the size and reach of that advantage.
Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
Beauty is a leading indicator of health capital, and the defining feature of health capital is that all of our upside is bounded. Mobility, fitness, energy, and attractiveness act as a sort of force multiplier on all our other efforts, and are certainly worth having, but they're subject to hard limits. You can be 10x richer, more knowledgeable, or
... See moreRichard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Beauty may look like a route to get ahead for women, but, in fact, beauty is worth more in men’s hands than in women’s own.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Don’t underestimate the power of attractive people. We are swayed most by those we think are similar to us. Associating an object with a celebrity or an attractive person will make the object more attractive, too.
Susan M. Weinschenk • Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? (Voices That Matter)
That is because beauty isn’t actually what you look like; beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.
Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays
The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter le... See more
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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