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>Attractive women are 'hit' by this particularly hard - all those guys trying to get them to bed, get another score, the curve is exponential with beauty. Bill
by TMWNN 3y ago
>Attractive women are 'hit' by this particularly hard - all those guys trying to get them to bed, get another score, the curve is exponential with beauty.
Bill Bradley's Life on the Run discusses this. Bradley was the
* #1 high school basketball player in the country
* #1 college basketball player in the country at Princeton
* Rhodes Scholar
* NBA player
* US Senator
* ran for President
From high school on, Bradley avoided the many, many women who wanted to date him just because he was a celebrity. In Life on the Run, written during his NBA career, he wrote about how such experiences gave him an understanding of what life is like for beautiful women: "the unnaturalness of being a sex object".
- pants2 3y agoI once - by complete chance - sat next to Henry Cavill at a bar. He was trying to talk to a friend and then an attractive woman interrupted them almost right away to strike up conversation with him. Over the next hour I watched dozens of women come over, throwing themselves at him. It was eye-opening seeing the way he was treated, I actually felt kinda bad for the guy. He was trying to have a nice drink with a friend but was treated like some sort of show animal.
- sandspar 3y agoFame is a 100x multiplier for these things. Harrison Ford talked about his sudden fame. "As a young actor, you spend your life observing people. Then, suddenly, everyone is staring at you."
- TMWNN 3y agoFord was 35 when Star Wars came out. Overnight he went from an actor who worked as a carpenter to pay his bills, to to one of the three leads on the biggest film franchise of the century. When he went to a record store to buy an album, fans ripped half his shirt off.