“Pretty privilege” is this lazy analysis of colourism, featurism, transphobia, fatphobia, etc that dull people perpetuate as some sort of cursed gift
there are people 10x more mesmerising and beautiful then 3/4 of the people who claim pretty privilege yet are not treated with that same regard bc of standards. Like shut up
the narrative that “pretty” people suffer from more harassment and such is almost always condition of misogyny. Not because you are just divinely favoured and gifted with such features
also before anyone takes this as a reduction of their suffering under misogyny and white supremacy, understand desirability rarely means absolute safety. This thread highlighted that well for me https://twitter.com/theblacklayers/status/1345821101708992513
y’all can make what you want of this. argue amongst yourselves 🖖🏽 peace
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