Because I usually find most of the women used as examples are pretty smoking hot. I feel like “conventionally attractive” privilege is incredibly hard to pin down in those kinds of discussions because what exactly is conventionally attractive? Do people have specific parameters for it somewhere?
Actually, I know exactly what you’re talking about, and it’s a fucking minefield anyway because it’s so easy to accidentally offend someone. I spent most of my life feeling horrifyingly ugly and I never want to put anything even close to that kind of designation on anyone else because I know it sucks and also because my idea of what’s attractive is so widespread that I end up finding at least 75% of the people that I see every day attractive on some level so it becomes tough to even put myself in that headspace, where I’m trying to figure out what the society pages consider attractive or unattractive. And then I go, yeah, well, why do it? But sometimes it’s necessary for the sake of argument, I guess.
But also like, in a world where people freak out over Megan Fox’s thumbs and call Jessica Simpson fat, I also think it’s pretty fucking safe to assume that anyone who doesn’t look like a super-skinny supermodel is going to take some heat for not being attractive enough for whoever it is making the commentary. You know? The post-TMZ, post-Perez Hilton world is full of shitty gossip sites like The Superficial or I Don’t Like You In That Way, who are almost impossible to satisfy. So like, ultimately, I think “conventionally attractive privilege” (what an awkward term) is something most people have a fleeting grip on at best.
