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Pretty people have a lot of perceptions placed on them, like the fact they don't do sports, games, auto tuning and who knows what else, and the ones that do often make waves simply for that fact.

Personally, I think they do a lot more than we give them credit for, but being pretty shouldn't amplify or subtract for their perceived amount of skill or knowledge at something. Quite the opposite, for them to truly hang with the big boys they should let their skills or wisdom do the talking instead of using their looks to make them look better than they are, or at least that's how I see it.

But enough of my viewpoint, what do you guys think?

Sometimes it's due to the way certain individuals act.

Some people really DO take advantage of their good looks to get by certain things. They use their sex appeal to get what they want and they flaunt it around and act like major douchebags. They're the ones helping to prove those stereotypes and making the truly good willed attractive people look bad. The same can be said of unattractive individuals as well.

It's also partially due to the way certain people are portrayed on tv and in the movies.

I think one of most blatent examples of this is Carrie Keagan from No Good TV. Very entertaining on the whole, but a lot of her shtick comes from the fact that's she's lovely and has enormous breasts(no seriously, go watch this and tell me it's not). I cannot see this being a long term thing, and I can't really give a lot of respect for people who base their livelihoods on their looks(as those can and will go, regardless of how well to take care of yourself). No matter how someone looks, if they can hang, they can hang; all they have to do is prove their mettle.

I don't know if I'd go that far. We like to look at pretty people. I see nothing wrong with someone choosing to be a model or an actor or any other job where you have to have the right look. "If you've got it flaunt it" ya know?

Can you imagine telling a maths nerd that it's okay for them to be good at maths, but they shouldn't flaunt it, they need to also worry about being good at auto mechanics or English literature. It's not right for them to skate by on their maths skill alone, what if they got a brain tumor and couldn't do maths anymore? When you lose your job, you get some training and find a new one. That's life.

Why is it okay to be gifted in some things, but not others?

"Real skills" Models work really hard! They have to watch every bite they eat, their hair and make up can take hours, they must have perfect posture, etc. Contracts with fine print and skeezy managers, it's not easy!


Oh, sorry this is so long. It just freaks me out when somebody says anything that sounds the least bit anti-exceptional. I was totally screwed by that in public school (For academic skillz, not attractiveness) and I think that everyone who has some gift/ability/skill/talent of any kind should be encouraged to excel to the utmost. <3

I see this and do think you have some good points, but for me it's more of a long term thing. Tyra Banks was smart enough to get the business side of things going for her later in her career, so when she gets older she has things to fall back on and she doesn't have to really keep being model-pretty to make her money. Same thing goes for people like Leonardo DiCaprio, who decided to shift away from being another random pretty boy to an all around actor.

A career is a career is a career, but one thing I would hope those using their looks to pay their income realize is that there's always someone younger, prettier and more vivacious than them ready to take their roles and leave them high and dry. The world of looks-based careers is a cruel and uncaring one, and I would hope that anyone who decides to enters realizes they need to become a whole lot more than a pretty face to survive and thrive in it.