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One of the few "privileges" the people who usually talk about such things still haven't properly acknowledged.

fknorangesite 4y ago
If you think this then you haven't looked very hard. It's trivial to find a wealth of articles and commentary (scientific and otherwise) with a simple "attractiveness privilege" google search, for example.
- poszlem 4y ago
  And yet we talk about the "white privilege" all the time, and I bet dollars to doughnuts that "beauty privilege" has more impact on a person life in the year 2022.
- gojomo 4y ago
  That you can find discussion with a focused search doesn't really address the opinion that "the people who usually talk about [privilege]" haven't "properly acknowledged" things like beauty privilege. Certainly, sophisticated academics and other deep thinkers consider – or at least mention when being comprehensive – the many possible dimensions of privilege. They're not secrets, nor unstudied. But the people most often flagging things like "white privilege" or "male privilege" often don't mention things like "height privilege" or "beauty privilege" or "personality privilege". They don't want the distraction. Google result counts: 9,760,000 [white privilege] 1,590,000 [male privilege] 432,000 [beauty privilege] 3,130 [height privilege] Some even get prickly if it's mentioned that those other privileges can have a larger influence on relevant measurable outcomes, like say income, than headline-grabbing race/gender privileges.
pessimizer 4y ago
Mayim Bialik made a good point about it during Weinstein and was utterly demolished and nearly cancelled for it. I can't remember the exact words, but she noted that Hollywood was a lot harder for actresses that producers etc. didn't want to fuck. While the casting couch was a hard, demeaning career path, it was a career path, and one that a crafty, resourceful actress that powerful people wanted to fuck might even be able to work around and take advantage of without having to do anything. But if you're just a good actress and not seen as a bedding opportunity, there was just a wall.
- googlryas 4y ago
  This is a game I like to play: whenever I see an actor in a big/expensive production that I feel is a bad actor, I try to figure out how they got the role. 90% of the time, you can just go to their Wikipedia page and see that their parents or aunt/uncle is a well connected Hollywood type. The other times, you'll see paparazzi shots of them partying with 65 year old dudes, who end up being big Hollywood players. Because there's nothing attractive 20-somethings like to do more than party with people who are their grandfather's age.

If you think this then you haven't looked very hard. It's trivial to find a wealth of articles and commentary (scientific and otherwise) with a simple "attractiveness privilege" google search, for example.

poszlem 4y ago
And yet we talk about the "white privilege" all the time, and I bet dollars to doughnuts that "beauty privilege" has more impact on a person life in the year 2022.
gojomo 4y ago
That you can find discussion with a focused search doesn't really address the opinion that "the people who usually talk about [privilege]" haven't "properly acknowledged" things like beauty privilege. Certainly, sophisticated academics and other deep thinkers consider – or at least mention when being comprehensive – the many possible dimensions of privilege. They're not secrets, nor unstudied. But the people most often flagging things like "white privilege" or "male privilege" often don't mention things like "height privilege" or "beauty privilege" or "personality privilege". They don't want the distraction. Google result counts: 9,760,000 [white privilege] 1,590,000 [male privilege] 432,000 [beauty privilege] 3,130 [height privilege] Some even get prickly if it's mentioned that those other privileges can have a larger influence on relevant measurable outcomes, like say income, than headline-grabbing race/gender privileges.

pessimizer 4y ago

Mayim Bialik made a good point about it during Weinstein and was utterly demolished and nearly cancelled for it. I can't remember the exact words, but she noted that Hollywood was a lot harder for actresses that producers etc. didn't want to fuck. While the casting couch was a hard, demeaning career path, it was a career path, and one that a crafty, resourceful actress that powerful people wanted to fuck might even be able to work around and take advantage of without having to do anything. But if you're just a good actress and not seen as a bedding opportunity, there was just a wall.

googlryas 4y ago
This is a game I like to play: whenever I see an actor in a big/expensive production that I feel is a bad actor, I try to figure out how they got the role. 90% of the time, you can just go to their Wikipedia page and see that their parents or aunt/uncle is a well connected Hollywood type. The other times, you'll see paparazzi shots of them partying with 65 year old dudes, who end up being big Hollywood players. Because there's nothing attractive 20-somethings like to do more than party with people who are their grandfather's age.