In a 2005 experiment modeling the hiring process, would-be employers were ready to give 10.5% higher salaries to attractive candidates over unattractive ones.
Similarly, according to a paper on the 2018 congressional midterms, good-looking candidates are more likely to get elected.
Psychologists call it the "beauty premium." Essentially, the income gap between attractive and unattractive people is comparable to the gap between genders or ethnicities.
Interested in other ways this double standard manifests, Redditor u/Routine_Astronaut182 posted a question on r/AskReddit, saying: "What's something attractive people can do that ugly people can't?" and it blew up. Here are some of the most popular replies it has received.
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Singer / artist. Even though looks have nothing to do with talent. Makes me wonder how many amazing voices are not being heard because the record company old fat dudes don't think the artist is hot
Playing the male role in romantic movie. If the guy from 50 shades of Gray was overweight and balding it would be a horror flick.
It is a horror movie anyway. Both the story and the acting are giving me nightmares 🙈
Be into weird s**t but it's still cool, like anime, if you're ugly and into anime you're a "weirdo freak". But if you're hot and into Anime "OMG you like anime? That's so cool, you're so artsy and edgy" lmfao
As cosplayer, this one always drives me nuts. I can spend hours literally getting every detail right, but as an unnattractive man, I will never be as popular as even a moderately attractive woman who shows a little skin. One of the self titled 'queens of cosplay' is only famous because she wore a 'cosplay' that was literally underwear with ears and a tail.
When I was smaller, I:
- was called a bombshell
- male friends had crushes on me
- I got free drinks at the bar
- I was let off a stunting ticket without a warning
- got cat called
- worked as a waitress
- men came to me
When I gained 50 lbs, I:
- was told never to wear a certain pair of leggings again
- get screamed at/called fat by homeless people
- buy my own drinks
- have trouble finding a waitressing job
- was given a stunting ticket
- male friends became platonic and say “you’re pretty, you’ll find someone”
- get rejected constantly
Edit; forgot to add being skinnier you have a better “fashion sense”. My chonky self has an awesome sense of fashion but if I wore half the s**t I wanted to I would get laughed at!
Not getting compliments Buying your own drinks Never escaping tickets Platonic friendship (which i is something highly valuable) Frequent rejection That´s male life 101. I can see how it sucks somehow. Abuse from homeless and being told not to wear something is totally uncalled and not something i can relate to.
I have a good-looking business partner. We are constantly delegating tasks based on whether we need Sasquatch or Captain America.
I'm super interested in knowing what do you guys do for a living, because I cannot see a single environment that involves sasquatch and captain america
Dressing bad. Attractive people can wear literal rags and look go. Ugly people have to dress to the 9 just to have a chance.
Said to a friend - "I can't find anything to wear. I'm too fat" - She answered, "You look beautiful" I said " Thanks, but I didn't say I was ugly"
Getting noticed quickly and hence promotions quickly- ive realized its easier to climb the corporate ladder being attractive and lazy than ugly and hardworking
I dated an extremely attractive charismatic man once. It was genuinely scary what he could pull off, he could definitely be a cult leader. Now when I go on dates if I see their charisma manipulating situations it’s an instant no. Sh*ts scary
get out of prison for a felony, immediately get a modeling contract and start dating an heiress
I’ve had one of my friends get rejected because the girl found the best friend of that guy (me) to be too ugly.
My friend got rejected because IM UGLY.
No. Your friend was rejected because the girl was an imbecile. He dodged a bullet.
Anyone can ask, but attractive people are so much more likely to get help from strangers. Just a sad little twisted fact of life.
There was a dog in our college bus stop looking starved and emaciated. People just ignored him or threw stones at him because he wasn't looking cute. I fed him and he began to look normal. Then everybody was nice to him.
Mess up at their job/ life in general. They will always not get blamed and get help from everybody. My friend got yelled at at her job for sending a shipment of mail to the wrong zip code. When she explained that it wasn't her, but her pretty coworker Vanessa that did it, the supervisor's mood immediately changed, and said "oh, she must have just not known". Infuriating.
Sack Vanessa, and demote supervisor. Promote the poor guy working his guts off for years,, yet nobody even knows he exists.
Always having dating options. Not actively seeking out potential partners. Potential partners seek them out.
I am an average looking person, but I couldn't bring my dates home because my brother was gorgeous. He could care less about them, but they would swoon.
Receive the fastest service from bartenders. Cut lines. Have prospective employers "see potential" and attain jobs without being totally qualified.
Is that why I work on my own delivering goods for Amazon, even thogh i have an engineering degree?
People will go completely out of their way to do things for them. Moving? Something broke? Card declined? Someone will help them.
Yeah, its called the halo effect. We tend to assume attractive people are nicer and smarter.
Haggling for price reductions on anything. I seriously had a friend who got discounted gas at the gas station from the owners son. She was hot with annoying baby voice and played dumb even with her phd and it almost always worked.
Flirt without cringe backlash
Speaking from experience, nothing hurts like asking someone out and having them respond with something along the lines of "ew!"
My weight fluctuates due to depressive episodes and I 100% see a stark difference in social interactions. Lots of eye contact and casual touching when I am skinnier. When babies stare at me in public places like grocery stores I always smile and wave and when I am skinny parents tend to say things like "say hi to the nice man" or some such pleasantries and when I am larger people tend to need something in the other aisle immediately.
I got to see it from both sides as well. I am a biggish guy, and it was a social liability in my home town. When I moved to Texas, being big was actually attractive. The way I was treated was dramatically different. I'm a guy, and I know that the difference in treatment is 10 - 80 times more extreme for women.
Get good tips as a waitress/waiter without REALLY trying.
My ex looks like Ben Affleck, and when we were younger, we both worked for a restaurant. He'd consistently make more in tips bc people would see him and think "omg! It's Ben Affleck!" Like that dude would ever be working as a server in Mississippi. We'd have bets to see who would make the most each night and damn if he didn't usually win
Be broke, unemployed, or a criminal and people will still think you're a catch.
Look at all the fans that Ted Bundy had even after he had been convicted and was on death row
Not get called a creep or weirdo for flirting or trying to chat to someone.
Weird most just say thank you, or run away screaming or try to hand me their purse or wallet. Not sure what going wrong.
Get away with stuff. Cut line, talk their way out of a speeding ticket. Get hired.
I’ve noticed that people are more patient with my stutter. My sisters boyfriend is… not conventionally attractive and he stutters too. Some people just outright ignore him. Pisses me off that double standard exists.
So angry with this. A pretty face is destroyed by an ugly personality.
Treating people poorly or just being generally unpleasant to be around but yet not be ostracized from social groups and having people put up with their s**t
They can be a******s and get away with It. Oh and they are allowed to be stupid. Their pretty faces Will make up for that
Get the benefit of the doubt. Been using it my whole life
Get conversation without much effort.
If an unattractive person is at a venue and doesn't know anybody it can be a lonely experience. If you are attractive, people will try to make conversation with you all the time. I know plenty of attractive people who are not at all interesting but have tons of friends because everyone wants a good looking person around them.
I remember my first week at college, there were these guys at a frat table with signs that said "free hugs." I was shy, very withdrawn, but I was trying SO hard to be social and put myself out on the new college scene. Of course, all of these slim and really beautiful girls were getting hugs, being talked to all happily. I walked up, the guy looked me up and down, smirked, and said, 'how about a free handshake?' I was too stunned to do or say anything but that really bruised me. I wasn't ugly, but I wasn't "hot," so to some people it's the same thing. I hope that guy's receding hairline has reached his neck by now.
Bold fashion choices.
I totally love that BTS can wear anything and make it work. They are beautiful but they got a LOT of flack for several members not being handsome enough to be idols. I hope they laugh now. They are all beautiful, inside even more than outside.
I was attractive once. I could get away with anything. Literally. I shoplifted from a store once and a lady officer saw me, followed me outside, questioned me, we bulls**ted for a while. I joked that I was terrible at crime. She laughed and let me go with a warning.
I'd say I'm an 7/10. If I go out with friends that are 9s, they give the cheerleader effect where I suddenly get perceived as a 9 also. Works great for me. Get free entry, cheap or free drinks, etc.
This does not work the other way around. If I go out with a friend that's say 5/10,. my 7/10 isn't enough to bring the cheerleader effect, but their 5 doesn't seem to affect my 7... if that makes sense
I have been fat and been subject to the most horrific treatment. I've lost weight recently and suddenly that treatment is completely different, on the whole. Most people don't know why I was fat, or the reason why I have lost weight and its not important. I was the same kind, friendly, genuine person at all my different weights but when I was fat I felt that nothing in my character could ever make up for how I looked. It's makes ne so sad.
I don't like these. I am definitely "plus sized," but I can look pretty attractive when I want to. A lot of "ugly people" just don't know how to dress for their body type, and end up looking bad because their clothes don't fit them correctly. I don't like how a lot of these posts seem to suggest that fat=ugly and skinny=attractive (which apparently also means your life will be a million times better and people will just give you stuff randomly?). I really hate this kind of stereotyping, and I don't understand why BP would have an article like this.
Yassss!!!! 100% agree!! Size doesn't matter if you know how to carry your weight you can enamore anyone! :)
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I was a babe in my 20s. 59 now, I've since had a baby and spent the last 11 years caring for my cancer-stricken hubby. The weight I spent my life trying to lose has come back. At a local restaurant just yesterday with my autistic son. We didn't order anything weird or have any special requests. Burger, fries, and a pop for him, grilled cheese and water for me. I had to ask other waitresses to tell OUR waitress we needed attention, it was ridiculous! I watched every single table around us being catered to, while we drank warm drinks after the cubes melted and then our drinks were literally empty. As I paid the bill, I said, "I know I don't look like the rest of these folks and we're definitely not in the same tax bracket, but at the end of the day, I'm your customer and it would be nice to be treated as such." I'm tired of being treated like a nobody because I'm not a size zero! Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I have been fat and been subject to the most horrific treatment. I've lost weight recently and suddenly that treatment is completely different, on the whole. Most people don't know why I was fat, or the reason why I have lost weight and its not important. I was the same kind, friendly, genuine person at all my different weights but when I was fat I felt that nothing in my character could ever make up for how I looked. It's makes ne so sad.
I don't like these. I am definitely "plus sized," but I can look pretty attractive when I want to. A lot of "ugly people" just don't know how to dress for their body type, and end up looking bad because their clothes don't fit them correctly. I don't like how a lot of these posts seem to suggest that fat=ugly and skinny=attractive (which apparently also means your life will be a million times better and people will just give you stuff randomly?). I really hate this kind of stereotyping, and I don't understand why BP would have an article like this.
Yassss!!!! 100% agree!! Size doesn't matter if you know how to carry your weight you can enamore anyone! :)
Load More Replies... I was a babe in my 20s. 59 now, I've since had a baby and spent the last 11 years caring for my cancer-stricken hubby. The weight I spent my life trying to lose has come back. At a local restaurant just yesterday with my autistic son. We didn't order anything weird or have any special requests. Burger, fries, and a pop for him, grilled cheese and water for me. I had to ask other waitresses to tell OUR waitress we needed attention, it was ridiculous! I watched every single table around us being catered to, while we drank warm drinks after the cubes melted and then our drinks were literally empty. As I paid the bill, I said, "I know I don't look like the rest of these folks and we're definitely not in the same tax bracket, but at the end of the day, I'm your customer and it would be nice to be treated as such." I'm tired of being treated like a nobody because I'm not a size zero! Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
