r/prettyprivilege

Can We Talk About Megan Fox?

Can We Talk About Megan Fox?

So, the internet is going crazy because of Megan Fox’s most recent appearance, and I think this is just a clear tell for all of the people who use this community of how nasty people can be and how much of a curse being pretty can actually be.

She’s clearly one of the most attractive women on the planet, and the second she looks a little bit different, people are so happy and excited to tear her down. And just to mention, she doesn’t even look bad. She just looks like she’s wearing a wig and has put on a little bit of weight, but she’s still far more attractive than most of the ugly people commenting on her.

The second she looks slightly different, people are just so excited to pick her apart because so many people are insecure and jealous. It’s like they think, “Oh wow, this person isn’t as amazing as they were before, so this is my chance to make myself feel better by tearing them down.”

And it’s so disgusting.

It’s just a reminder to all of you who use this community that people are waiting for you to fail. People are waiting for you to be less than so they can make themselves feel better, and it’s disgusting and sad.

Because the only crime of Megan, and so many of us, is being conventionally attractive, and we pay for it in our lives. People are never going to understand that. They’re just going to sarcastically say, “Oh, poor you for being attractive.” They’re never going to get it.

And it’s so sad and so enraging to see that this is how people treat others simply because an attractive person has something that other people want and maybe feel like they’ll never have.

u/Purple_Marketing_103 — 8 days ago

I Watched Malèna Today and My Heart!

This movie described my experience with pretty privilege/punishment in a nutshell. The way I was shouting at the tv bro 😂😭

The way I can feel people staring at me as I’m walking around the city. How women can be weird and hostile towards me but can never come to me direct, woman to woman. How men are only nice to me until a woman is hanging off his ear about me, but their “niceness” doesn’t go beyond just wanting to be around me or sleep with me. How I can tell people that genuinely like me are afraid to openly associate with me because of the kind of attention I get.
The only time I don’t get any strong attention like this is when I gain weight and become depressed (like Malèna at the end of the movie). That’s when I’m suddenly a “girl’s girl” in every woman’s eyes. Crazy seeing that shift happen when I lose weight, and all of sudden, guys want to talk to me, and women start acting standoffish or create drama out of nowhere 😐

Malèna was just a beautiful introvert that everyone projected their desires and insecurities on. She was also strung up about her husband going to war. Nobody gave her any real sympathy or protection.

I’m not a natural introvert, but being pretty and sober (as well as a spoonie) has made socialising feel like an extreme sport sometimes.
God said I had to be born in an era where I can actually be independent as a single woman because, fuck me, what she went through was brutal tho…

I thought that scene when her hair was dyed red, and she pulled out a cigarette and all those men came up to her with a lighter was iconic af tho 😂
Hair is everything, Anthony!

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u/midasisqueen — 7 days ago

and what do people say ? “Beauty isn’t everything”??

“Oh beautiful people don’t experience pretty punishment that’s not a real thing”

“Oh cry me a river you’re pretty and what do you have to be afraid or insecure for”

“Relax no one is thinking or trying to hurt you, get over yourself”

l feel awful for this victim. Beauty is not what people make it seem to be

u/san_19 — 8 days ago

Everything always being brought back to the patriarchy

Bit of a rant incoming.

I live in a very left wing city and I know a lot of left wing people. I myself am a lefty. But the way some people take it too far and use it as a way to criticise me is just annoying. I feel like its purely jealousy and they use the words patriarchy and feminism to hide behind.

Why is is it problematic and for the male gaze when I do pole dancing, yet its somehow empowering and liberating when its someone who doesnt fit the beauty standard?

Me getting my nails done is somehow fitting the patriarchal mold and people suddenly start talking about how they want us weak and unable to use our hands properly. Even though half the women in the room have their nails done.

I am performing gender roles and need to get therapy to check my internal misogyny, but a trans woman does it and we all have to celebrate her girlhood. (Love my trans girlies)

On paper I am an extremely left wings persons wet dream. An immigrant, used to be homeless, disabled, a young carer, LGBTQ. But I am attractive and they absolutely hate it when they find out. I have had people actively argue with me. Things like I am not an actual immigrant because I am white so I am clearly from a rich country or something. No, actually. I grew up around a lot of corruption and violence, and they cannot stand that.

None of this happened when I was obese btw. I was a fun little fact they got to tell each other back then. Now that I fit the beauty standard its suddenly a problem. My existence in now magically anti-feminist.

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u/Intelligent_Can_3022 — 9 days ago