Baraka_Guru

I become reserved and defensive around attractive people. This is because I automatically suspect they know how attractive they are and might use it to their advantage to wield undue influence against us normies. I also have found that many attractive people (mainly women) seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time maxing out their attractiveness. This makes me think, "Oh, man! How long did you spend on your hair this morning, let along your damn makeup?!" I think "high maint." I find interacting with people who are high maint to be generally insufferable. Whether they're incredibly superficial or simply spoiled and used to getting everything they want, I have little patience for it and will often even want to be the spanner thrown in their works if the opportunity presents itself.

However, that doesn't mean their attractiveness has no influence. It's simply not the kind of influence that will work as any kind of leverage towards anything in their favour. There is certainly an exception if they're sincere, kind, and charismatic. That's not necessarily what we're talking about here.

If it's pure attractiveness and you're an idiot or otherwise unpleasant beyond your looks, there is only one guarantee: I will be eye-humping you for the full duration of our interaction.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot