ie you may be a tall and broad male.. would this cause people to treat you a certain way/assume certain things of you, thus causing you to act accordingly?
just wondering...
2006-12-29 20:21:20 · 9 answers · asked by kosh 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Oh, this one is definitely for me.
I was a tall broad guy right out of kindergarden. My personality was oddly mild in comparison. As I grew up I wasn't the one picked on or trash can'd or toilet swirled. I was the big guy on campus if only physically. I liked sports, but I was actually the brains on campus.
So when people or relatives saw me they figured that I'd be like my dad the college all american (literally, he's in books). They'd be surprised that along with football I was taking calculus and honors English in high school. I had made a decision and thought that academics, not sports, was going to get me into college. And it did.
My dad echoed some of the thoughts that I kept hearing over and over and that was 'what a waste! that body is just wasted on a nerd like you'
Then in college I was pressured to marry by so many that it was unbearable. When I turned 30 and I wasn't married people thought I was gay. Nobody with that body and face and brains to match could have managed to make it to 30 and not be gay.
High expectations from everyone and everywhere just by looking the way I do.
I'm now 40, balding, lumpy, married and father of 2. And I still get the first initial question 'did you ever play ball in college or professionally? how about high school?'
I get hit on still by both sexes....kinda flattering at my age. (and no, never did the gay or bi thing)
And then the biggie 'so what do you do for a living?' I tell them that its in a brainiac field of technology and I see their eyes kinda glaze over.
The job doesn't fit the guy....but it fits what I like to do.
2006-12-29 20:51:59 · answer #1 · answered by Mr O 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. People are drawn to others who are physically attractive to them, turned off by people who are considered ugly by common standards. In most jobs, appearance is extremely important (sometimes more than experience, at least for women). It may take a lot more than looks to make it in this world, but a woman who is tall and attractive is far likely to get a better education even if she's not that smart to begin with (because people will show an interest in her) she will get the good corporate job, while a short and unattractive woman doesn't get many people interested in her unless she is super intelligent, therefore would be more than likely to gain nothing more than work cleaning floors or doing laundry or something like that.
2006-12-30 04:53:21 · answer #2 · answered by importedimmigrant 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it does! We've only had a very few Presidents under 6 foot....Geo. Washington being the first of them, and the average height at that time for a male was about 5-7.
Ugly people often, not always, have a rougher time of it.
2006-12-30 04:25:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally think so. I mean if you're a beautiful woman with long pretty hair and good features, people are just naturally going to treat you better and it's bound to affect the way you see yourself and how your personality is developed.
2006-12-30 04:26:30 · answer #4 · answered by Annmaree 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biological endowments. Ability affected by expectations. Male, female and ethnic minority attitudes in school. Research shows people make assumptions of ability based on appearance. 'When we treat a person as they are, we make them worse than they are, when we treat them as if they already are were what they potentially could be, we make them what they should be.' (Goethe) - should be? Don't should yourself…
2006-12-30 06:33:05 · answer #5 · answered by eyvind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, without question. Beautiful children are treated better than scrawny ugly children. That's for sure.
xxB
2006-12-30 04:25:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no way ..don't you know Hitler was so short yet he was powerful and looked upon as leader..even Mussolini..look at mahatma Gandhi he was so old but people never treated him useless so its all in the mind not body
2006-12-30 04:27:06 · answer #7 · answered by dharanikanchi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a sad but true,as a child/teenager i had brown hair and was over weight, i got picked on because of it and no boy was ever interested in me. i then lost **** LOADS of weight and dyed my hair blonde....every one wanted to be my friend or ask me out! (how shallow) but then last year i got pregnant, fat and have gone back my natural colour!!!
2007-01-02 07:23:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definatley, you need to have confidence in your own appearnce to be able to have confidence in yourself
2006-12-30 04:51:11 · answer #9 · answered by Marky Mark 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋