tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post2704208168993225911..comments2024-03-28T17:12:01.740-04:00Comments on Face to Face: How entitled are very pretty girls?agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-25411222186622460492009-01-28T21:33:00.000-05:002009-01-28T21:33:00.000-05:00Although we always found our now 18 yr old to be b...Although we always found our now 18 yr old to be beautiful, the world didn't necessarily agree with us until she was 17. Her teachers told us that her beauty was an obstacle to normal teen relationships. An added aspect to her beauty was an academic determination that let her to graduate with a 4.58 GPA. Smart and pretty. Luckily, she was never ashamed of her intelligence. Instead, we have a college freshman, on full scholarship, who oozes confidence. Our fear? She is treated by her peers as though she is royalty. Now that she lives away from home 8 months out of the year, we are unable to buffer her sense of entitlement. She has people in each class waiting to be offered a tidbit of attention from her. She has former classmates hoping for a small audience with her. All we can do is remind her of her priorities: God, family, school and then everything else. Numerous studies have confirmed that attractive people have an easier life. We're lucky that our daughter is a compassionate person who, thus far, has not taken advantage of those people who feel beauty is the end all, be all. However, as parents, it's an extra chapter in the book on How to Raise a Well Adjusted Child!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-80556489424608910722007-10-17T14:52:00.000-04:002007-10-17T14:52:00.000-04:00Just to clarify - the Portuguese from Portugal, wh...Just to clarify - the Portuguese from Portugal, which is what this girl speaks, has a "special sound"...but the Portuguese from other countries is different. The one from Brazil is quite different with the syllables being more clearly discerned. As with Spanish, it is important to distinguish which (or whose) Spanish/Portuguese it is.spaceloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04605637788367676704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-25437309937323572772007-10-10T09:27:00.000-04:002007-10-10T09:27:00.000-04:00My daughter is pretty, and feels pretty entitled, ...My daughter is pretty, and feels pretty entitled, herself. I was homely, I am currently homely, married to homeliness, and foisted upon us was beauty. We held out hopes that she would follow in our steps and become no better than plain, but at thirteen, she became tall, and her eyes uncrossed, with the help of contact lenses, she lost her lisp, and well, she became this cruel flirtatious drama queen. We are currently looking for ways to exploit this for filthy lucre, but the modeling gigs are just not out there. <BR/>Your taste in Portuguese singstresses is loverly. I can understand Brazilian Portuguese okay, but you are right...she drops syllables more than any Cuban I know of.Mother Effingbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01264056812587985898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-62161915190106172062007-10-07T23:16:00.000-04:002007-10-07T23:16:00.000-04:00there is something to be said for your analysis. ...there is something to be said for your analysis. anecdotally i agree with it. but i think we're confounding overt with covert entitledness. the 7s and 8s may demand more conspicuous displays of princess treament than the 9s and 10s but the latter are sure to expect the red carpet treatment in due course. 9s and 10s are so used to getting the cream of the alpha crop that they come to take their entitledness for granted and, as you wrote, don't have anything to prove by "shit testing" the guys they date since those guys are un-shit-testable.<BR/><BR/>btw, maybe i'm picky, but mia is an 8.5. her eyes are a little too small and her jawline a little too pronouced to be a true 9 or 10.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-37530205472539773092007-10-07T12:40:00.000-04:002007-10-07T12:40:00.000-04:00That makes sense actually:- out of competition (1-...That makes sense actually:<BR/><BR/>- out of competition (1-3)<BR/><BR/>- in competition (4-6)<BR/><BR/>- in extreme competition (7-8)<BR/><BR/>- beyond competition (9-10)<BR/><BR/>And also explains how I ended up dating Miss M (if briefly), though she was obviously way out of my league.<BR/><BR/>i.p.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-70766297811523325502007-10-06T18:01:00.000-04:002007-10-06T18:01:00.000-04:00absolute stunner in love with the sexless nerd. it...<I> absolute stunner in love with the sexless nerd. it was quite realistic. </I><BR/><BR/>I wouldn't take it quite that far, as real-life counterparts are few and far between.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-74598511976739707362007-10-06T11:17:00.000-04:002007-10-06T11:17:00.000-04:00brilliant post. strangely, my thoughts went to th...brilliant post. strangely, my thoughts went to the beauty in houellebecq's atomized as well, the absolute stunner in love with the sexless nerd. it was quite realistic. she was just easygoing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-74471040039401501012007-10-06T10:38:00.000-04:002007-10-06T10:38:00.000-04:00I wonder if some 10s aren't so sweet softened by h...I wonder if some 10s aren't so sweet softened by how well people treat them on account of their beauty, than many bever learn the kind of shrewd discernment of men's motives that the more insecure 8's do. Michel Houellebecq writes about this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-45804338966977953892007-10-06T10:27:00.000-04:002007-10-06T10:27:00.000-04:00You, sir, have excellent taste.You, sir, have excellent taste.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com