ARE LOOKS EVERYTHING?

Isn't it cruel that the world goes on how a person looks?  I know people
who are nice looking and people who could be considered average and some
really ugly people, and it seems that the nice looking people seem to
get treated better, not just by members of the opposite sex, but in 
general.

I'm at university now, and I'd say most people in my classes are pretty
nice looking, with only one person I'd class as ugly, and he's the class
dork who no one really likes very much.  People take the piss out of
him and often try and avoid him.  But it's more than just a looks thing,
he smells bad, has bad breath and doesn't take a bath very often I'm
figuring.  That said, his personality isn't that great either, which
is probably what a lot of people also hold against him.

He's also deeply religious which a lot of the class seem to find very strange
and talk about him when he's not there. Just the other day a girl in
our class asked me if this boy was a <certain> religion and I said yes
and she asked "has he tried to convert you yet?", the girl who asked me
is a great person she's really nice, but even she thinks he's wierd.  To
tell the truth, no one really likes him.

Surveys have been done on this.  Companies sent nice looking people out onto
the street to sell things, and the amount of products they sold compared
to some ugly gits they sent out, out-numbered them 10-1.

The 1990s society still goes very much on how a person looks.  People 
perceive a nice looking person to be "cool" and a nice person, which
isn't always the case. I know people who are nice looking who are
total tossers, but I also know people who are a combination, nice looking
and great personalities, which is an added bonus.

I would say that my looks are about average, I'm no oil painting, I'm
quite a fat sod, but I'm not ugly.  I get treated alright by most
people, and I think my personality is pretty decent.

One of my friends, considered a nice looking boy, but a shyer person you'll
never meet.  He doesn't have any trouble, people see him as being nice
looking, so he must be cool doesn't matter if he hardly speaks to any
one.  If he was ugly, he'd almost certainly be shunned by every one.

It is a fact that ugly people have to try ten times harder to fit in with
society than good looking people do.  There are societies on the internet
and in the "real world" set up to help ugly people and then openly 
discriminate good looking people, using phrases like "nice looking = no
personality" which isn't true, that's just as bad as saying "ugly looking =
ugly personality".  Generalisations and stereotypes are everywhere and it's
really what makes the 1990s society go round.

So next time you're talking to some one you'd class as a bit of an ugly
mother fucker, just give them a chance and before you pass them off as
being a twat, just get to know them a bit, you mind end up liking them.

+RIPMAG+