Pretty Girls Aren't Special

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When I was young, I had this philosophy that can best be summed up as, "Pretty girls can do whatever they want." I thought that beauty was a rare, special quality, and that possessing it gave women some sort of super-power that lets them get away with anything. I was fine with this: I thought it was a right and proper thing.

25 years later, I now know that pretty girls are a dime a dozen. They are literally everywhere, and it doesn't take any special skill or strength of character to be one. It just takes a fortunate genetic alignment.

No matter how pretty you are, you'd better bring something else to the game if you want to play with me, because I'm not going to soft-pedal anything just because you're fun to look at.

On Tumblr as in life.