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In reply to the discussion: ‘Plus-Sized’ College Student Claims Discrimination at Bar [View all]Spike89
(1,569 posts)There simply isn't anything new here. It is a cliche' that the beautiful people get into the busy club and the "uglies" wait behind the velvet ropes for a chance that never comes. Pretty people get seated earlier and in better spots in restaurants, they get warnings rather than tickets from cops more often (and lesser sentences from judges). Pretty waiters (male and female) get better tips than less attractive ones.
Is it fair? No, but it isn't fair either that smarter people have advantages--and it is easier to change your attractiveness-level than your IQ. Taller people (to a point) get many of the same perks attractive ones get. Short, ugly, and dumb isn't going to open as many doors as tall, pretty, and smart.
So, the world isn't fair. We can never pass enough laws to make it fair. As long as people have any discretion on how they interact with each other, there will be "unfairness". Even if we wanted to, we couldn't adequately, much less actionably, define who is attractive and who is ugly.