It’s hard to argue that your looks don’t affect how you’re perceived by the outside world. And, even though body-positive activists tell us to love ourselves just the way we are, we all know that being easy on the eye has its benefits. As Lizzo says, ‘It’s so hard trying to love yourself in a world that doesn’t love you back, am I right?’
What is pretty privilege?
Between baked feta pasta recipes and the mouth-taping sleep hack (do not try it at home, kids!), TikTok is also the source of a lot of the recent discussions about pretty privilege – although we’ve been talking about attractive people being handed the world for millennia. It’s a concept that describes the advantages and benefits that some people who are considered physically attractive enjoy in various aspects of life.
‘It is a manifestation of the halo effect, a cognitive bias where people tend to attribute positive qualities to individuals based on a single positive characteristic,’ says clinical psychologist
