Being beautiful! Is it beneficial or harmful?

Question

As it relates to human attraction, what are the benefits of being beautiful? What are the drawbacks?

If you can give an example of a time when you or someone you know, benefited from being beautiful in attracting others. Or give an example of a time when you or someone you know found being beautiful a drawback in attracting others.

Answer 1

it is nothing but good.. though if you are a weak person you can make it your crutch by thinking that it compensates for other skill you could acquire.. there is always room for improvement and looks aren't even half of your presence

Answer 2

Beautiful is a big word and is entirely subjective. How about just very attractive, that has enough downfalls.

People are intimidated by very attractive people and assume instantly that they are being patronized when the person in question is kind or approachable.

Additionally, I don't think it is at all helpful in dating scenarios. For some insane reason, an attractive person isn't suppose to be real. It's a foregone conclusion that they are stupid, inarticulate and arm candy.

When doors open for no other reason than because you are attractive, it is insulting, annoying and ultimately infuriating. We are more than the sum of our parts.

Answer 3

Being beautiful is beneficial as long as your not self centered and depend on just good looks to get you through life.

You have to be very well rounded and have the desire to be intelligent enough to be good company and have a genuine interest in others.

My husband has the right idea.

He says you will know right away as soon as a beautiful person, opens their mouth.

This beauty thing goes for both men and women.

As a beautiful woman, you are always hired when applying for a job if interviewed by a man.

If you are interviewed by a woman, in most cases you don't qualify for the job.

Hope I helped.

Thanks for the question.

Answer 4

I read this somewhere or heard it "in the end the only thing that eludes you is vanity" I thinks that great cause if you think your good looking or hot eventually you wont be. It would be a humbling experience if we could all see what we look like when we are 70 yrs old. As for socioty it has been proven we accept beautiful people over the ugly. It sucks but it is human nature cream rises to the top. Its beneficial and burdoning. If you open your mind beautiful is what you make it....

Answer 5

Does how much you know play a part in the equation?

You could be the stupidest person in the world but yet have killer looks, and many people would take intrest in you. Except those people would typically be just as shallow as the stupid person.

You could also be the most intelligent person on the face of the earth and yet look like a misshapen dog and you will get just as much respect. The only thing is that the people respecting the "hot blonde"(for comical purposes) and the people respecting the ugly genius are typically not going to be the same people.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Answer 6

It's definitely a positive thing to be. The better you look, the easier it is to get anything you want. It may not be the magic bullet, but it will make things easier.

Although, there's wisdom to be gained from spending some time in the ugly shoes. Many people who have always been beautiful can end up with terribly screwed expectations.

Answer 7

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder:

http://www.chinapage.org/story/beauty.html

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - Origin:

This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn't appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his
Euphues and his England, wrote:

"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."

Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues

Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote:

Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion

beauty is in the eye of the beholderDavid Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:

"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess'. In Molly Bawn, 1878, there's the line "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59100.html

Have you ever noticed that good looking girls usually hang out together with other good looking girls, but when it come to couples the lousiest looking guy dates a Pretty girl and mostly vice versa too.

http://anthonysmirror.blogspot.com/2005/11/beauty-is-in-eyes-of-beholder.html

Beauty in eyes of beholder, study confirms:

WASHINGTON: When it comes to something pleasant, it seems that the phrase "easy on the eyes" may hold more truth than earlier believed, for a study has found that objects or people appear more attractive when the mind can process their looks faster.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2037080.cms

Scientists ponder beauty and the eye of the beholder:
Evidence increasingly suggests the human brain is hard-wired for aesthetics.

http://www.sigidiart.com/Docs/beauty.htm

I will give a simple explanation of my own. I will go to a blind man and
describe the beauty of a top cine actress. Can any amount of description
make him realize how beautiful she is? He needs eyes to see and understand
for him self.

When candles are off, all women are fair!

Answer 8

It is a drawback because many find you unapproachable and it is beneficial cause you may end up as a successful model and then marry someone famous.

Answer 9

Its probaly beneficial cuz thats how you become famous or popular the beauty from head down to toes!

Answer 10

more doors are opened for good looking people but the people opening those doors sometimes aren't the greatest looking people in the world. as far as attraction goes, it's to each's own.