Friday, April 19, 2013

Ugly girl

Ugly girl. It's tough hearing those words together. Ugly is clearly a bad word, and we should never say it in reference to anyone...ever. 

But let's just say hypothetically speaking that we aren't a bunch of dumbass Americans who have over-inflated morals and activist groups which work together to tell every little girl that she's beautiful in her own way....
Let's be real (and I say "let's" very loosely because I know that no one reads my blog). When a baby girl pops into this world and she is ugly, we don't tell her that she's ugly. We say that she has nice features, or that she has a golden personality. We desperately dance around her unfortunate phenotype combinations with all the grace of a paraplegic hippo, and we convince her ugly ass that she is going to have the same opportunities and chances as everyone else in our stupid look-oriented world. 
By the time she hits puberty she knows otherwise.

The cruelest group of people possible is a group of 9-13 year old kids. Those kids are not going to tell her that she has nice features or that she has a golden personality, they are going to call her "ugly".

Well crap, there goes a childhood full of affirmations and reassurances right down the toilet. The secret's out. That poor girl is an ugly duckling, and thanks to your poor dancing and dodging skills, she now has to sort through these new facts completely alone. 
She hears a contradictions; mom and dad say that she's pretty, but her peers say that she isn't. Somebody is lying. 
She will quickly realize, thanks to her mirror and the actions of her friends and the simple fact that a group of peers has no reason to lie to her, that she is an ugly girl. Not only will this realization be painful and frightening, but it will also be blunt. Thanks to her parent's lies, she will have this unfortunate truth thrown at her by a group of evil children instead of broken gently by her loving parents. 

Stating that a child is less attractive than their peers does not make a parent a bad parent, it makes them an honest parent.

Living as an ugly girl can be very hard. I'll share some of my own experiences, partially to vent (because who the hell actually reads my blog? No one does! Why? Because no one cares enough about what I have to say to take the time to read my awesome blog!), and partially because some attractive asshole might stumble on this page and choke on their own glee that they aren't me.
So I guess I'll approach this topically.

1) competition
This is pretty obvious, but if there is any type of serious competition, people automatically gravitate towards that adorable girl or crazy good-looking guy. It doesn't matter if that plain Jane girl in the back has better experience and/or references, eye-candy always wins initially. Now, if the source of the competition is part of a company with obligations to be impartial, or if the person hiring/choosing is sane enough to realize that they need someone who can actually do the work, the plain Jane definitely has a shot. But that's assuming that there isn't eye-candy around who also has the experience/references. In that case-scenario the plain Jane is completely screwed and won't even get a second glance.
This is a universal rule which every plain Jane is very familiar with. She'll have to work twice as hard, and she'll still be at a disadvantage.

2) friendship
Most of the time anybody who can be friendly will find friends. However, I often marvel at how easily some of my more attractive peers make friends. They don't value friendship the way that I do. My friends are friends with ME. No bullshit, no pretenses, my friends like me for who I am. I value friendship a lot, and I am loyal to the end. This is something I'm sure more attractive people can't understand the way that I do. 

3) dating
This is probably the most obvious disadvantage of being less-attractive. This is especially tough if you're a less-attractive female. Guys have to be physically attracted to a girl before they are attracted to her in other ways. I don't have much trouble getting dates, mostly because online dating is such a big asset nowadays, but it still sucks to feel inferior to other girls.



Well I guess that's the end of my rant about being ugly. Not that anyone's reading it.......because no one reads my blog........probably because I'm ugly........

(although you can bet your sweet ass that everybody would read every single word if I were suddenly killed. Isn't it great? How people care once you're dead?)

 Grrrr, okay I'm really done this time.