Why does society treat people they consider unattractive poorly? Are these social hostilities, dejections, prejudices & discrimination causing unattractive people to flock to lookmaxxing communities? (lemmy.world)

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[-] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

I'm no expert, but if we have a hierarchy of beautiful/youthful looking people above regular folks, then yeah people are going to do some wild, desperate stuff to try to get that edge. capitalism and hierarchy pressure us all to get every advantage we possibly can.

looksmaxxing itself is based on incel delusions about how women choose men, taking societal hierarchies and pressures I've been talking about and viewing them as biological/evolutionary (which is nonsense)

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