Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.

And it's time for a podcast.

We are going to talk about pretty privilege, the ugly truth about pretty privilege.

There are so many societal beauty standards and beauty biases and evaluation of attractiveness is so important in society. Unfortunately,

it's affecting all of us. Combined together, these factors create the perfect storm. Everyone is

critiquing each other, how they look, how they rank, it creates the opportunity for pretty privilege.

While the term pretty privilege has been a thing for a while, the significance of it and how it's

affecting the younger members of society especially has come up due to TikTok users. You've heard of

brain versus brawn, but what about beauty? What about attractiveness?

So in this podcast, let's talk about whether or not pretty privilege truly exists, how it can

affect people's perceptions of men and women and what it means for you. What does it mean to be

evaluated by the way you look? And why do we do that as humans?

Well, there's a lot of reasons. Evolutionarily, that's the number one way that people kind of had the ability to assess a future mate or a future companion by looking at their physical attributes. The brain, you know, the brain

and eyes can translate a lot from looking at the appearance of a person's overall health.

You can tell if someone has frailty, weakness, if they're robust, if they have good circulation,

if they have proportional symmetric features.

These are things that unconsciously have been evolutionarily bred into our brains to help us

determine whether mating with a certain other partner would make us genetically viable offspring

and give us potential for success. Evolution is

about survival of the fittest and sometimes being the most attractive means that you also

have an attractive gene pool. Pretty privilege is the idea that a person's attractiveness,

according to conventional beauty standards of today, can get them better treatment and land them more opportunities.

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