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Good looks don't affect my interactions with people at all.
I'm gonna suppose that my not growing up during a time period where 'externally attractive' people were crammed down my throat via assorted media channels 10-12 hours a day has something to do with this. Way back in the old days when I was a kid, the teevee was populated not only with a bunch of pretty people, but plenty of normal looking people with normal looking skin and teeth, too. I know it sounds scary, but to us it was completely, um, normal. And it allowed us to accept the fact that people with truly beautiful visages were fairly rare therefore it wasn't nearly as imperative to stuff, pump, suck and stitch ourselves into vaguely attractive awkward-looking people things. Which is what you see on the teevee today - the truly beautiful and their regrettably disfigured facsimiles.
/end old people's rant.
But yeah, it has never occurred to me to treat two people differently just because one of them doesn't have facial features as aesthetically pleasing. I do notice beautiful women, much more than men, but it doesn't affect how I interact with them. Basically, I treat everyone the same. And if someone looks me in the eye and it belies something interesting going on in there, then they get my full attention and outer looks become totally irrelevant.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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