okayy, so:
- confining people to caricatures because it's convenient (bitch)
- insisting one person isn't really 'cool', because one time she saw them do this etc (bitch)
- we fall into thinking physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits aswell
- so being beautiful is infact a priveleged position
- advantages goes beyond financial benefits such as making more money in tips as a server or not having to pay for drinks at the bar. research shows that the physical attractiveness phenomenon (thus beauty privilege) affects being hired for employment, called on in the classroom, sentenced for a crime, selected for a position of power, etc.
- beauty is not a socially constructed term. pale curvy women were the height of being 'in' with the status quo and considered desirable years ago, and although magazines primarily feature stick-thin tanned women, the first description is not therefore 'ugly' because there are many, ongoing ideas of beauty.
- fashion is not CHANGING, there isn't a conscious effort needed to 'keep up' with fashion aestehtics, only fashion collections. you see looks from all eras, the 40's brown oxfords, 50's double cuffed denim pants pinned up with picnic pins, 60's 'boxed' look, with shortie blazers and batwing cardis and a skinny stem of legs, represented in todays skin-tight jeans.
- fashion IS challenging. only runway models easily defy this ,and wear wierd-ass things. when i pick out a pricey outfit,
- obviously i wouldn't buy it if i thought people wouldnt like, so yes, there's that pressure
- but also, i will admit it, i think i look good in it. i'll agree that we feel self-conscious because we're afraid to acknowledge that we consider we look good. but it goes beyond that, it's also fear to admit to the basic human desire to be attractive
