What double standard in society goes generally unnoticed or without being called out?

Part of the thread is about attractive/pretty privilege and yep, that is a real thing. Found out myself in the last few years. In the before times, prior to me being all buff and considered hot, I’d go to a hotel to check in and would be treated with mild disdain often or just ignored.

Now, if the counter attendant is a woman I’m greeted extremely warmly and often when it comes time to show ID, the reaction is, “ID? Tee-hee! Who needs THAT?” or something similar. It’s disturbing coming from how I know I would’ve been treated 5-6 years ago. It bothers me because until you stray into that land you don’t know just how much better attractive people get treated. And I know how indifferently I would’ve been treated not that long ago.

That reminds me, I was hanging out one time with an extremely conventionally attractive woman friend who’d gotten a traffic ticket of some kind and had to go to court. As we were kicking it, she was checking that the judge was a man and I asked her why. She said, “Because if I dress hot and act stupid in court, I’ll probably get out of this ticket. But not too hot. Not slutty hot but business hot.”

And sure enough, she texted me a couple of days later and said, “Got out of the ticket. Don’t have to pay $250!”

Pretty privilege in action. I don’t blame her for weaponizing it but damn.