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Originally posted by sororitygirl2
I'm talking about in job hunts, relationships, everything... Overall, is it significantly easier for attractive people than unattractive people?
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I absolutely believe that it is easier for someone who is attractive to get his or her foot in the proverbial door but there has to be more to them than looks if they want to get any further.
Now that I'm old and haggard, things like this don't happen anymore (damn!!! lol), but I can think of times when the fact that I was pretty cute helped me. When I pumped $10.00 worth of gas at the self serve pump and then realized I only had $5.00 in my wallet, the attendant told me not to worry about it because he would give me the "pretty girl discount". I've waitressed in the past and always made phenomenal tips while other servers who were better at their job but not as attractive as me made less. Living in New York at the end of the eighties (the most looks-oriented, shallow decade on record, IMO) and early nineties, my girlfriends and I knew that we could slip into our tiny little Alaia dresses and beebop right past the clamoring thongs and the doorman and get into Nell's or Limelight or wherever people were going to see and be seen.
You know, though, I'm not sure how handy being attractive comes in a relationship because usually both parties are of equal attractiveness. So if you have two people who are used to getting their way, there can be major headbutting!