I am rooting for you OP. Funny not funny story. I think of myself as fairly average but my friends all paired up on college and got married or lifed with their partner 10 years and got married. I had the worst time dating and meeting someone. I remember once a very good friend looked at me and said: you are good looking such that you have to deal with the jerks and a**holes whereas I met my dorky guy who was fine with me being overweight and not traditionally pretty.
So I was one of the last ones married but I am happy. |
This is just sad, OP. I am not a pretty woman, never have been. Never will be. I have pretty women in my life, they're lives aren't miserable and they are still pretty well into advanced age.
Hating people does nothing positive for you, carrying that around actually negatively impacts your life. Put that energy into being the best version of your self. |
I am below average too and I thank my lucky stars that I was never objectified, harassed, groped, or worse. |
She actually does not have loose morals. She was a stripper at Pure Platium in Florida a super high end club. She quit that at 21 she has a college degree. The high end clubs like Scores, those girls just make bank!!! He tells everyone!! Ironically all the men are jealous. MD, Lawyer or ex stripper wife? Most men pick ex stripper |
I never had a problem attracting handsome, career driven men but when I was about 27 or so I realized many didn’t care about my intelligence or ambition. It was all about my looks. They tended to have big egos and not much more. I met a very normal guy through work who I really liked but he never asked me out so I asked him out. Later he said he never asked me out because he figured I was out of his league. We have been happily married a very long time and we have two beautiful adult daughters and I believe I did a good job coaching them about men because they both married very nice normal guys. |
As Loretta Young on said, " beauty opens the door and then you're on your own.,," |
OP don't let hate or jealousy ruin your life. I am average, never a head turner and I'm fine with that.
There was a stunner at work and to tell you the truth I ended up feeling a little sorry for her. ALL the guys wanted to sleep with her but it was hard to tell if they actually liked her, most appeared to only be interested in getting her into bed. She was watched all the time, everything she did. Everything she wore or what she did was scrutinized. I just remembered thinking it would be awful being on display all the time, plus the stalkers she had, not knowing if a guy was genuine. Her love life was the subject of so much gossip. Of course doors opened for her at work. She was given all the courses, all the benefits all the time and took it. It never helped her get anywhere substantial but did create a ripple of resentment at work where other people should have been offered opportunities and weren't. I wasn't one who cared. She was nice but I wouldn't trade places with her. To me it all seemed like a lot of pressure to always look good or a certain way. I was happy to just live my life as I wanted with no scrutiny, it's peaceful. |
Yes health is of course the most important thing. But the idea that beauty is earned in older women? No- you can not let yourself go- continue dressing well, staying slender, etc but beautiful women do these things too- probably more than other women as they age! I have always turned heads and gotten attention for my looks- I’m 40 now, and I work hard to stay attractive. I still get a lot of attention but being young and beautiful is magical. The power a beautiful woman has is real, and it fades. But it doesn’t die. I wish I were a perfect 10, I know that I’m lucky I’m even if I’m an 8 now, & unattractive women are I’m sure experience the world differently in some ways. Point being, having good skincare will not transform you. But focus on your strengths- I’ve lost my entire family, I have struggled with anxiety and depression... no need to hate ANYONE, just see reality and focus on yourself not other women. |
I used to think just like you when I was younger, in my then twenties or so.
But now at fifty one, I have plenty more life experience under my belt and can honestly admit that blessings come in all shapes + sizes. Beauty really is fleeting. I am reminded of this fact anytime I go on social media & see current photos of my former classmates. Some of the stunning, gorgeous girls I envied in high school are now seemingly unrecognizable. |
Sure! After all, they chose it and put you down by choosing their own beauty. Do you understand how stupid it would sound if you said “I hate naturally athletic women”, “I hate women born with a high IQ”, etc.? It’s nobody’s choice, my poor put-upon darling. As a “beautiful woman” who has dealt with some shit, I guess I should “hate” women who weren’t molested as children, women who have never been raped, women who haven’t had to deal with anxiety, women whose parents are still married and whose mothers haven’t attempted suicide, and women who haven’t randomly been hated by other women. Right? No, that’s insane and so is your stance! I’m sure that thousands upon thousands of women would love to trade places with you. Don’t discount your privilege/blessings just because you’d prefer another set. |
Mostly even just genes! |
I think plastic surgery “pretty” is a bit different than “actual pretty”, though - no? |
I adore her but gorgeous? |
Same! Anyone else voted class beauty and such and nothing to show for it? |
+1 billion! Who literally judges a book by its cover? Miserable people with shallow lives. |