My Beauty Breeds Volatility…?

<p>In today&rsquo;s charged discussion arena, it certainly feels a little&nbsp;<em>gauche</em>&nbsp;to open up subjects like women, beauty, and the effect it has on men. It&rsquo;s not long in such a conversation before you&rsquo;re warned that &ldquo;beauty is skin-deep&rdquo;, &ldquo;appearances don&rsquo;t matter&rdquo;, and that &ldquo;you shouldn&rsquo;t be so superficial&rdquo;.</p> <p>But that&rsquo;s just the problem&hellip;&nbsp;<em>I&rsquo;m not.</em></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*-rkBpuq1Lzb8_LxB" style="height:402px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo:&nbsp;<a href="https://unsplash.com/@seeplus" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hosein Shirvani</a></p> <p>Rather, I&rsquo;m on the opposite end of this spectrum &mdash; I&rsquo;ve always thought beauty to &mdash; indeed &mdash; be a superficial, trivial matter, therefore not worthy of my intellect. I&rsquo;ve placed myself above such trivialities, and in all fairness, always saw conventional attractiveness as an optional add-on in romantic partners.</p> <p>Which has left me disengaged, and out of touch with my own appearance, and beauty. I&rsquo;m always struck when sharing the occasional selfie, of the positive reaction, particularly from men. Often, from strangers.</p> <p>I don&rsquo;t&nbsp;<em>think</em>&nbsp;of myself as a conventionally attractive person, so am always surprised, and a little out of my depth when someone treats me as such. I feel&hellip;</p> <p>Naive. Clueless. Innocent.</p> <p><em>Well, perhaps not the last one</em>. Call it what you will, but I generally assume, when someone&rsquo;s being nice to me, that they do so out of intellectual interest, or otherwise basic human gentility. My more world-savvy friends soon disabuse me of such notions.</p> <p><a href="https://catrinaprager.medium.com/my-beauty-breeds-volatility-96b9291cff3c"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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