Transcript excerpt from a YouTube interview (host Chris Collins) with Jackie Jarrard discussing how perceptions of physical attractiveness affect life experiences and self-worth. In this short excerpt Jarrard disputes the notion that being an attractive woman automatically makes life easier and says her personal experience does not match that perception.
Being a guy. Help me understand this. So when you're. When you're an attractive female, things also come easier for you?
Okay, I want to myth bust that for a second. I think that is the perception, and that has never been my personal experience. I don't think I've gotten much of anything that I feel proud of because someone else thought I was pretty.
What is it that happens? What is it you're. What is it you're getting from being pretty?
I think, and especially the younger that you are, when this starts to happen, you get a sense that it doesn't matter who you are. You get a sense that your value is in something external.
