The #1 privilege is being pretty...

[alittlelark]

155. 'Attractive' is a biological privilege. Wealth is not tied to genes.

One could argue that it is - because your parents had $$$...

I would beg to differ. Ugly children are born to rich people. Beautiful children are born to poor people.

The attractive children will have a physical appearance that gives them preference and privilege. Test after test after study after study shows it to be true. I don't think I need to cite stats for those that have read this thread.

I was a butt-ugly child. I had horrible buck teeth (then braces), red hair, 20/525 vision (thick glasses), and was thin as a rail. I was tormented from 3rd-8th grade. Bullied, teased...all that horrible stuff we talk about here often.

The summer before HS I had my braces taken off and got contact lenses (parents insisted). I went to Homecoming and Prom my freshman year... I had a freakish whirlwind surround me. I was in a new school district. I am an INTP (Meyers -Briggs) and was not particularly interested... Ended my senior year going steady with the student body president (who I am divorcing now at almost 50 yrs old).

Bottom line - almost every job I applied for I got. I could give a lame excuse to a professor and it would be fine. I could say almost anything to anybody and have an agreement. It works with women as well as men. I am still using it to my advantage.... the difference between my 'privilege' and MRG's is that I was able to LIVE the life of those on the other side. They have not. Most other minority groups cannot live on both sides either.

It is most certainly a form of privilege. I have seen it from both ends of the spectrum - and those childhood scars can run DEEP. I still see my TRUE self in that child that was scared and unsure of why people were behaving the way they were... I think that is the TRUE face of much of humanity - and that makes me sad.