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03/02/12(Fri)19:06:49 No.1616203>>1616058
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have also pondered this, and i believe i've found the answer: the
people who say that tend to have a limited sense of the full spectrum of
human attractiveness, perhaps due to living in a relatively homogeneous
social environment (and therefore being of sufficient/average
attractiveness themselves) by circumstance or through the
conscious/unconscious choices of lineage.
So, when someone says
"it's all about your personality/confidence, bro!", they in fact ARE
telling the truth from their point of view, only taking into
consideration those individuals that they know personally or through
their own network of friends/acquaintances. Since the individual in
question is giving advice, he is likely of sufficient attractiveness,
and since human social groups stratify primarily by physical
attributes/attractiveness (prove me wrong.), his peers are likely very
similar to him. In such a social milieu, OTHER factors such as
personality/confidence WOULD matter, as the competition is between
individuals of roughly equal attractiveness.
Had they included
5'2'', rotund Pablo (who works the fields in an adjacent, low-class town
and lives a life they wouldn't dare trade places with) or that gas
station manager (whom they buy their cigarettes from) who looks like
Danny Devito into their assessment of the "full range of
attractiveness", they might have a different opinion. But people tend to
just automatically disregard those who are too far from their own daily
experiences and social environments.
When we say "my life is
FUCKING insufferable", we mean in relation to OUR first-world standards,
we aren't even considering all the little Kunta Kinte's starving on the
plains of Africa, god rest their souls. |