What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman

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Overview

What It’s Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman is the title of an article written in The Cut, a women's-interest subsidiary of New York Magazine. After the article was written, it generated both mockery and commentary online.

Background

On April 2nd, 2018, The Cut^[1] published "What It’s Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman," which was told by an anonymous 50-year old woman to author Alexa Tsoulis-Reay. In the piece, the woman describes herself as being told she was a beautiful woman in her younger years. She describes her beauty as a contributing factor to her poor dating life and her difficulty forming female friendships. She describes other women as being jealous of her and attempting to sabotage her career, as well as not inviting her to parties and making her cry (sample paragraph shown below). She also credits her beauty as a contributing factor for never not landing a job she interviewed for.

One of the worst things about being beautiful is that other women absolutely despise you. Women have made me cry my whole life. When I try to make friends with a woman, I feel like I'm a guy trying to woo her. Women don't trust me. They don't want me around their husbands. I'm often excluded from parties, with no explanation. I imagine their thought process goes something like this: "What does it matter if I hurt her feelings. She has her looks and that's more than I have. Life has already played favorites..." It's kind of like being born rich, people don't believe that you feel the same pain. It's a bias that people can't shake.

Developments

Much of the Twitter reaction to the piece came from people expecting the piece to be vain, and that is how the piece was interpreted by many. Twitter user and writer @rachsyme^[2] parodied the article by posting a GIF of Jenna Maroney from 30 Rock saying "Listen up 5s, and 10 is speaking" (shown below, left). Twitter user @annakhachiyan tweeted stating the woman's anecdote about other women attempting to sabotage her by planting alcohol at her desk likely didn't happen (shown below, right).

rachel syme @rachsyme Follow C- LISTEN UPFIVES,ATEN IS SPEAKING 3:59 PM - 2 Apr 2018

Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan Follow Replying to @ebruenig Yeah... this didn't happen shake Throughout my life, competitive, attractive, wealthy, entitled women really hated me. At my first job after college, my female colleagues conspired against me. They planted bottles of half-drunk booze on mv desk so that it looked like I was drinking on the job.Two women were obsessed with me. They told my boss lies to get me fired. I talked to some of my superiors about it and they put it to me straight: Look, it's pure unmitigated jealousy. They really do hate

Other Twitter users defended the piece. User @DorothyofIsrael highlighted passages that she argued were cause for empathy, not mockery, gaining over 170 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, left). User @JesseWakeman tweeted a thread saying the conversation the piece attempted to start about beauty privilege could have been good but the execution of the piece was flawed (shown below, right).

Hoodie Rebecca @dorothyofisrael Follow Been seeing too many people mock this "what it's like to be a beautiful woman", and y'all are horrible humans. Try practicing empathy, cause clearly you didn't bother to read the piece: a woman, I feel like I'm a guy trying to woo her. Women don't trust me. They don't want me around their husbands. I'm often excluded from parties, with no explanation. I imagine their thought process goes something like this: "What does it matter if I hurt her feelings. She has her looks and that's more than I have. Life has already played favorites ..." It's kind of like being born rich, people don't believe that you feel the same pain. It's a bias that people can't shake. Throughout my life, competitive, attractive,

Jessica Wakeman e @JessicaWakeman Follow Unpopular opinion (maybe): That "What It's Like To Go Through Life As A Really Beautiful Women" piece could have been really good. Maybe not as an as-told-to, though. Beauty privilege is a topic we need to discuss more. A lot more 9:19 PM -2 Apr 2018

Reactions to the article were covered by Twitter Moments^[2] and a parody article in response was published in Smoke Room.^[3]

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External References

^[1] The Cut – What It’s Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman

^[2] Twitter Moments – Woman shares her experience of being 'really beautiful'

^[3] Smoke Room – SOMEBODY IS FINALLY IS SPEAKING UP FOR ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE, IT’S TIME TO STOP THE HATE

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