Ugly" people have to put up with these 8 discriminatory attitudes.

Physical appearance, unfortunately, can decide whether your life is easy or an obstacle course.

Racism or sexism is often talked about as a form of discrimination, and these phenomena receive a lot of media coverage.

However, one type of discrimination is very common, a very common and socially accepted type of discrimination is discrimination on the basis of physical appearance, known as "asceticism".known as "asceticism". Unattractive people suffer a series of discriminatory consequences that we will review in this article.

Discrimination based on physical appearance and its consequences

Discrimination on the basis of physical appearance is a widespread phenomenon today.. In a culture that rewards physical beauty, ugliness is punished in different areas of people's lives: interpersonal relationships, at work, at social events...

Some experts, such as the American psychologist David Marks, agree in affirming that "ugly people suffer from aspectism (lookism that is, discrimination based on physical appearance, which occurs more frequently than the racism or sexism that is much talked about today and which is socially very punishable". Aspect is going unnoticed and it does not seem to be getting any better.There is neither interest nor social awareness to solve it.

Discriminatory attitudes towards the ugly

Some time ago, Juan Antonio Herrero Brasas, professor of Ethics and Public Policy at California State University (USA), who usually teaches in some U.S. multinationals, told the newspaper El Mundo that: "when I go to give talks to executives in these large companies, all the attendees have an imposing physical appearance. There are hardly any individuals who can be described as ugly.

So. Are less attractive individuals discriminated against? What discriminatory attitudes do they suffer from? In the following lines you can find a list of discriminatory consequences that ugly people suffer.

They are more likely to suffer bullying and mobbing.

It is common to hear news about the harassment that some children or teenagers may suffer at school or high school (bullying) or some employees in the workplace (mobbing). This harassment does not necessarily have to be physical, but is usually psychological.

A well-known case of cyberbullying for this reason is the case of Lynelle Cantwella Canadian teenager who was chosen as the ugliest girl in high school by a group of anonymous profiles that spread this fact through social networks. Fortunately, Lynelle did not remain silent and has appeared in several media to expose what happened, with the mission to raise awareness of this harsh reality suffered by many children not exactly graceful in terms of physical appearance.

But this phenomenon is not only exclusive to the youngest, but adults also discriminate and harass due to physical appearance. According to a study carried out by a group of researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Notre Dame (United States), which was published in the journal Human Performancethe ugly are more likely to be harassed in the workplace. The subjects of the study were 114 employees of a health center located in the southern United States.

2. They earn less money than the good-looking ones.

Some scientists also claim that ugly people make less money than good-looking people.

The University of California conducted a study that was published in the Journal of Economic Psychologyand the results show that less attractive people earn 12% less on average than good-looking individuals.. As the group of scientists explains: "these conclusions are applicable in different societies and in different workplaces".

3. Fewer job opportunities

Not only do less attractive people suffer discrimination in terms of pay, but they also have fewer job opportunities. This is the conclusion of a 2010 study conducted by Ze'ev Shtudiner and Bradley J. Ruffle of Ariel University in Israel and the University of Ontario in Canada. According to the results, an average person has to send twice as many resumes as attractive people to get a job.

Likewise, a study by Sergio Urzúa and Florencia Bóo Martín carried out in 2011 concluded that the handsome, compared to the ugly ones, receive 36% more responses from the companies where they apply for a job..

4. They are seen as conversationalists, not objects of desire.

Ugly people are victims of a number of stereotypes. An example of this is the great impact that the agency "Ugly Models" has had for not hiring attractive models but ugly ones.

Hollywood probably has something to do with this fact, but the fact is that ugly people are seen as conversationalists rather than objects of desire.. In relationships with other sexes, they are usually relegated to the role of friends, so they have less chance of getting to something more.

5. And they have fewer opportunities for flirting

Therefore, this causes ugly people to be less accepted by others in terms of relationships and, consequently, they flirt less. In fact, it causes quite an impact when someone sees an ugly person with an attractive person.. On these occasions, it is often thought that there must be an economic interest behind it. As if ugly people don't have the qualities to make others fall in love with them.

In reality, ugly people have a series of seductive weapons and qualities that can be highly valued by other people. If you want to know what they are, you can read our article: "Why do ugly people flirt? 7 keys to understand it".

6. They go unnoticed at social events.

It also looks strange when an ugly person is popular. Generally, ugly people are not the popular people in high school or the "cool" people at parties.

Ugly people tend to be overshadowed and are often rejected by people who don't even take two minutes to get to know how much they hide inside. Being handsome opens many doors, being ugly closes them..

7. They are less remembered

Beautiful people are more remembered than ugly people. This is what research led by Michael Baker, from the U.S. University of East Carolina, published in the scientific journal Evolutionary Psychology.

According to the findings, looking at faces of attractive people can be pleasant for the human organism and improve memory, so that ugly people are less remembered than good-looking ones. Not only that, but the same research found that good-looking people increase the motivation and concentration of the people they interact with.

8. They receive less help

There are many studies that show that good-looking people receive more help than ugly people. For example, research published in Frontiers in Neuroscience showed that men are willing to accept deals that are not at all advantageous to them if a beautiful woman asks them to do so.

Likewise, there are many social experiments that have been carried out in recent years that show this reality. Below you can see two videos that exemplify how men treat beautiful women and how they treat ugly women:

As you can see, the attractive woman was accompanied to the place she intended to go and was even invited to eat. And in the case of ugly women, what is the reaction of people? Well, the opposite happens. Here you can see it: