Do unattractive women get treated poorly in general?

[Imported]

I was waiting at the checkout line of a supermarket yesterday. The girl working the register was unattractive and obese. The woman in front of me being rung up was also unattractive and obese.

 

I thought about this thread topic and have to agree. I wasn't rude to either of these women as I really didn't interact with them at all. But I have to admit that if they were attractive, my demeaner would have been different and more upbeat.

 

As it was, I was kinda annoyed the woman being rung up had so many things in her cart and that the cashier wasn't going faster. If they were attractive looking, I know my thought process would have been different.

Edited December 5, 2014 by Imported

[Got it]

Do attractive people get preferential treatment? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

 

Studies Show The Advantages Of Being Beautiful - Business Insider

 

What It's Like To Live as An Ugly Woman

 

For women in the workplace, it's still about looks not deeds - Money - TODAY.com

 

So, in short, yes women are judged more by looks than men and unattractiveness will impact many areas of her life especially if she is overweight.

[Danda]

I think it depends on the mental health of the person dishing out said-treatment.

 

Some people have deranged entitlement issues. If a guy feels that women should try to be attractive for him in order to earn the right to be treated kindly, then yeah, he'll probably be a total douche to women he considers unattractive, because in his deranged mind, women who do not please him visually have 'dared' to 'betray' him when they 'owed' him something.

 

But this goes way beyond just women's looks and random narcissistic men. This sort of entitled mentality could apply to anyone in a variety of ways.

 

To give an example empathizing with men, I have always found it sort of disturbing how a murderer in the news is painted as especially sick/evil if he murdered women, but when a guy gets murdered it is presented more like.. here the facts of the murder. With no emotional effect. As if to imply that female lives are more valuable than male lives, or something, which further implies that women are more entitled to life than men. Sometimes it's extremely subtle like that.

 

And then sometimes it's really blatant.