People that are not good looking, such as myself, have noticed a peculiar trend in society. We are uniquely positioned, as outsiders looking in, to notice this trend. Women and Men alike get all sorts of little breaks in life, and are given slack in every area imaginable, simply because, as Dennis Miller puts it, they "hit the genetic 'pick six'".
Good-looking people are treated as royalty in our society. Because they are celebrated in every venue imaginable, from billboards to magazines to TV to movies and beyond, every place that humans go, they see good-looking people and cannot avoid it, so we are FORCED to have a reverence for them, we are subtly brainwashed into it from an early age so we don't notice any bias at all. All this because people in suits realized they can make money selling their products because a good-looking person hawking the product will result in more sales. That's how much power they have. We will buy something with our hard-earned money just because a good-looking person says we should. Really they are just a front for a company saying we should, but no one digs deeper than the surface.
And the surface is important, isn't it? As the saying goes, "beauty is just skin deep". Skin is thin, so that's not very deep at all. If you took a beautiful person and ripped their skin off, they would look really gross and their so-called "beauty", which rests solely on that gossamer surface, would disappear rather quickly. So their skin IS important, very much so.
People with no talent, skills or abilities can make millions of dollars and have great, glamorous lives simply because of the way they popped out of the womb. It is wrong of society to reward this on the level that it does.
People just treat good-looking people better, on every level you can imagine. Clerks at stores are just nicer to them, potential mates bend over backwards for them, parents dote on them, in no area are they EVER exposed to the way normal, or ugly people are treated. Because, from birth, they know no other way, they develop this bubble of false self-importance. That's the best way I can describe it. I'm not talking about arrogance and conceit, although many have these qualities, but not all. I'm talking about a certain unconscious misunderstanding of life and interpersonal relationships that is warped from day one because they are one of society's chosen darlings.
Imagine a lifetime of getting to slide when the cops pull you over, at late fees at the video store, overly attentive service at stores, etc., (there are many other instances like this, these are just some that I can think of right now), plus a constant barrage of compliments and people going out of their way just for you. If that's ALL you knew your whole life, your outlook would be skewed, to say the least. You'd be in that bubble I spoke of earlier. I suppose it only ends if they live long enough to get old, then beauty fades and so do all the breaks. But they've had so many their whole lives, it doesn't really matter at that point.
I hope all this doesn't sound like whining, because that's not my intention. I would just like for someone of beauty to live as one of us "normals" for a year, and see what their formerly-charmed lives would be like without all the breaks that they get that they have come to take for granted. Ideally, we should be living in a meritocracy, not a "beautocracy". Because of they way they happen to have been born, the lucky ones, the beautiful people, can call the shots. They can live the way they want to live and even bend people to their will. All this without any actual worthwhile skills or talents. But no one ever said life was fair, and the way society bows down to, and revolves around, the people they deem beautiful at that moment, proves this beyond doubt.
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