What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman
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Overview
What It’s Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman is the title of an article written in The Cut, a women's-interest subsidiary of New York Magazine. After the article was written, it generated both mockery and commentary online.
Background
On April 2nd, 2018, The Cut[1] published "What It’s Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman," which was told by an anonymous 50-year old woman to author Alexa Tsoulis-Reay. In the piece, the woman describes herself as being told she was a beautiful woman in her younger years. She describes her beauty as a contributing factor to her poor dating life and her difficulty forming female friendships. She describes other women as being jealous of her and attempting to sabotage her career, as well as not inviting her to parties and making her cry (sample paragraph shown below). She also credits her beauty as a contributing factor for never not landing a job she interviewed for.
Developments
Much of the Twitter reaction to the piece came from people expecting the piece to be vain, and that is how the piece was interpreted by many. Twitter user and writer @rachsyme[2] parodied the article by posting a GIF of Jenna Maroney from 30 Rock saying "Listen up 5s, and 10 is speaking" (shown below, left). Twitter user @annakhachiyan tweeted stating the woman's anecdote about other women attempting to sabotage her by planting alcohol at her desk likely didn't happen (shown below, right).
Other Twitter users defended the piece. User @DorothyofIsrael highlighted passages that she argued were cause for empathy, not mockery, gaining over 170 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, left). User @JesseWakeman tweeted a thread saying the conversation the piece attempted to start about beauty privilege could have been good but the execution of the piece was flawed (shown below, right).
Reactions to the article were covered by Twitter Moments[2] and a parody article in response was published in Smoke Room.[3]
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