It took the #MeToo Movement for the reality to come out: For many females, beauty has been a curse. That is, the traditional kind.
They are the females with the naturally slim bodies, long legs, blonde hair, and great bones.
They were ones primarily targeted by those with a lot or even a little bit of power for sexual abuse.
Pre-#MeToo, most females figured out a way to navigate that force field in their professional lives without taking some of kind of action. They had to.
Some resisted. Some gave in. That's just the way it was. If you were beautiful and wanted a career or to even to earn a good living, there was continually the pressure of unwanted attention.
Unlike those who measured up to conventional standards of what was considered beautiful, I was stocky, short, had unruly dark brown hair, and no chiseled bones. "They" left me alone. With one exception.
A man in the C-suite who was going nowhere rubbed his leg next to mine in a cab during a business trip. I pretended I hadn't felt it. Back at the office he would give me that hard stares B-movie actors did when attracted to a female presence. Ignoring him was effective. Eventually he got canned for job performance reasons.
Of course, the #MeToo development will bring some reforms. But, one wonders if beauty will remain a magnet power can't resist.
Power is an entity few admit is, well, so powerful.
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