"Life is easier for prettier people"
Pretty people can afford to be bitches and bastards because their looks carry them. A pretty face is leverage and enables people to delve deeper once drawn in. If you don't like what you find after that, fair enough, but you've got the first step to get you started.
"Beauty comes from within, but the outside gets you noticed"
Of course, looks matter. But do you ever stop to think about the flip side of the coin? That sometimes pretty people get a hard time, too? No, no, don't be ridiculous! All you need is a pretty face and you'll get a drink and a kiss from anyone, so why choose me? Yes, but have you ever thought that a pretty princess might want more than that?
"Why would a girl like you want to talk to a guy like me?"
The assumption that a gorgeous girl will only be there to take advantage of you, that because she's young and pretty she'll only be interested in looks and if she talks to you she must be into you, because why would she waste her time otherwise? Just because she's pretty doesn't mean she's a shallow whore, out for all she can get, simply because she can. You don't like it when people brush you off, but you're allowed to take a sneering swipe at them straight away just because they're beautiful?
Sometimes it feels like if you have the looks, that's all you need, life is a breeze because every prince in the land will be after you... yeah, right.
On the jukebox: Kelly Clarkson ~ Beautiful Disaster
Sometimes it feels like if you have the looks, that's all you need, life is a breeze because every prince in the land will be after you... yeah, right.
On the jukebox: Kelly Clarkson ~ Beautiful Disaster
Try being used-to-be-pretty. I don't have the time or the inclination to make the effort any more, and it saddens me now when I don't get noticed, when I can't smile my way in and out of situations. (I put on about a stone, can never afford a hair cut, and am usually in such a hurry I live in jeans and baggy jumpers). I never experienced much of the 'why would a girl like you choose to talk to a guy like me' thing anyway - I assumed it was the kind of thing that only happened in American high-school-based movies. But I guess I started off geeky, made myself over after school, and never thought of myself as pretty, really, not at the time; so 'being pretty' wasn't in my demeanour, somehow, I don't know - and perhaps I retained my 'please talk to me' school-years approachability (not that I trusted anyone who did, but never mind...).
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting one :)
Have you seen this article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8011697.stm)? Very relevant.
ReplyDeleteI know that I'd rather be better looking than I am - I'm a long way from a classic beauty and even good looking is a fair stretch. Of course, I don't put any effort in either, because I think its useless, so some of it may be my fault. Who knows.
I'd probably write something else and be thoughtful if I wasn't so hungover.
I have now lol. It's an interesting article; and it's odd the assumptions that people make about others based on their looks.
ReplyDeletePersonally I believe that by and large everyone can be so-called good-looking if they dress themselves well, present themselves confidently, and so on and so forth - act good-looking and people will believe it, because it's true - I mean, those terrible American movies where some total weirdo gets transformed into the Prom Queen make that point every time (not that they'd like to admit it), or, say, Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal looked pretty frumpy, but cuts such a dash as M, say, or on the red carpet. Or Charlize Theron in Monster. Etc etc.
I'm sure I had a better point to make than that too, but I'd better get on with my packing - currently I can barely move around my room just for the sheer quantities of Stuff in the way...
Hah, figures you'd also blog about it.
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