<p>Coureur, not quite. If one works, one has to make the effort to look professional. Often that means pretty women wind up looking pretty at work. Which didn’t use to be all that fun. I imagine things have changed now. I also imagine that it’s much easier to be pretty when one is highly self-confident, as young women seem to be now.</p>
<p>I might would say " I know, it makes me nervous"</p>
<p>tsdad, laughing so hard…</p>
<p>Alumother, it used to be a problem to be a woman at work, period. Pretty women may have had guys making passes at them, and had to deal with unwanted sexual attention, but unattractive women either didn’t get hired at all, if a male was doing the hiring, or had sexist guys making nasty cracks about them. You know: the kind of guy who treats a woman like a human worthy of his consideration only if he wants to get into her pants. “She fell out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch on the way down.” A line I remember from Saving Private Ryan. Nice.</p>
<p>I absolutely understand and feel horrible for girls/young women/women who aren’t attractive. I find it an abomination that someone or ANYONE would say anything to the effect that the speaker believes anyone is ugly. I can’t believe that anyone possesses so few filters/tact/or intelligence to comment (whether invited to say anything or not) on a perceived lack of beauty.</p>
<p>But, I suspect that only on this site is beauty considered a problem. In shape pretty people get jobs more often, promoted faster, and, if studies are to be believed, make more money than their less attractive counterparts. Be happy your children are beautiful. Don’t make excuses…as in its not her best quality. However your kid became beautiful, be it genetics, surgery, or work…they’re pretty. Be happy. Say thank you and move on.</p>
<p>Then it’s time to work on the important parts of life.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Consolation - I absolutely understand what you are saying.</p>
<p>^^How could you possibly understand? You admitted earlier on the thread that you are one of the pretty ones. This is like a white person saying that she “absolutely understands” what it is like to be black.</p>