I'm beautiful and it's terrible

[ToesandToads]

It's not really is it?

I've seen a few women commenting that being beautiful is to be harassed and abused so it's rubbish to be beautiful.

That's not my experience.

I have never been harassed.

I've never been bothered at all.

I don't get followed. Touched.

I'm not saying that men are delightful. They're not. But they don't bother me.

And never have.

I am beautiful though.

Lol beautiful according to who? You?

Ooo I'm stunning, me

How nice for you

Tall and spiky? That is attractive. Not beautiful.

Your attitude is ugly, though.

You definitely deserve a medal. Thank you for your service to this country

If your only point is 'you don't have to be beautiful to be sexually harassed,' you've done a terrible job at wording it.

"I am tall and spikey beautiful but also tres inarticulate and confusing to the point of goady AF."

To paraphrase the late, great Meatloaf, 🎵 none outta three ain't bad. 🎵

I am pretty sure this is an Alan Partridge monologue from one of his radio shows, try re reading it in a Partridge accent and it makes more sense

Wow, just wow. I am not English so maybe I am missing something but what a peculiar post.

Men won' t be your biggest threat maybe, but by judging comments on here, other women will. Some women find it hard celebrating another woman's beauty.

I don't think that's the issue here - however, it is disappointing to see how women gravitate to this post.

@MeowwandAnder

Love your first answer - LMAO

Why should we celebrate beauty? Unless you mean beautiful on the inside?

Good looks is something you’re born with, it’s not an achievement. Nice to look at but that’s all and it’s usually temporary anyway isn’t it?

Hard work or just being a good person is what I’d be celebrating and that’s what I tell my kids.

Not overly keen on James Blunt though

not Biting

Yeah. Sleep with one eye open, OP. The Fugly Munters © have you in the crosshairs.

I’m loving the way everyone is piling on to the OP and simultaneously saying looks don’t matter.

If someone is very beautiful, it’s an objective fact, especially if it’s in a very classic way. Insisting that the person should notice or talk about how society responds to it is ridiculous.

I'm pretty average looking but 99% of the time I go out, I get bothered. My friend reckons it's a compliment. 🙄🤐

By "go out" I mean a night out. Day to day, I occassionally get cat called out of car windows but that's because I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time rather than it being aimed at me iyswim.

Op, I'm glad you don't get unwanted attention but it doesn't mean other people don't.

I don't find it hard to celebrate another woman's beauty. I adore beauty in all its forms, art, literature, design, architecture, music, poetry, men, women, nature especially. But her self-descriptor is not of a woman who is beautiful. Tall and striking, does not equal beautiful. Doing a bit of modelling once, does not equal beautiful. And her sentiments on this thread are ugly, so...

This.

I'm not sure that society views beauty and harassment as being connected.

If anything, beauty can be revered as some kind of achievement. Being young and insecure is far more likely to result in harassment in my experience.

As I understand it beauty is more likely to result in being successful in careers and friendships as people like to be around it.

No, you are not missing something and your observation is spot on, it is a weird post.

Hi Samantha! 👋

🤣

She was back the other week, feeling more beautiful than ever

Oh god now I gave that James blunt song going round and round in my head 😂😂

OP

Post a photo of your so called (by yourself) beauty.

You obviously have tickets on yourself which is very unattractive.