Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is totally subjective and what is breathtakingly gorgeous to some can be average to others. Still, there are some people who are considered "universally pretty ...

Humans can’t help but judge a book by its cover. Here's what it’s costing us. In a world that remains highly fixated on outward appearances, the phenomenon of "pretty privilege" awards significant ...

Pretty privilege is all too real. When you’re young, you come to know quite quickly who’s pretty and who isn’t. If you’re pretty, people will tell you often and upfront. And if prettiness isn’t your ...

The other week, my four-year-old daughter and I were going to her swimming lessons, when a man came up to us in the gym and exclaimed: “What pretty girls!” “Mama, what did he say?” my daughter asked, ...

Take a deep breath, we're going to talk about ‘pretty privilege’, AKA the term the internet has coined to describe the benefits associated with conforming to society's beauty ideals. It's conditional ...

In the 1968 film Barbarella, Anita Pallenberg as the Great Tyrant says to Jane Fonda as Barbarella, "Hello, Pretty-Pretty," and later repeats the phrase: "So, my pretty-pretty, we meet again." Was she ...