Emily Ratajkowski and the Burden of Being Perfect-Looking

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If there is a thesis statement in Emily Ratajkowski’s somewhat muddled new essay collection, it’s that physical beauty—in particular, a near-perfect, if outdated, sort of beauty—is a heavy cross to bear, CBattan writes.

, is a compelling examination of intellectual-property-rights issues in the fashion and modelling business. Short of bankrupting herself to cover legal fees, social media was Ratajkowski’s only recourse.“I tweeted about what a violation this book was, how he was using and abusing my image for profit without my consent,” Ratajkowski writes.

In another essay, Ratajkowski recalls a sponsored vacation that she takes with her husband to a luxury resort in the Maldives, where she obsessively checks the “like”s she’s receiving on her Instagram photos. On the beach, she spots a group of Muslim women in head scarves; she reads an article about Kim Kardashian; she wonders why she’s selling herself for a free vacation.

It would be dishonest to claim that there isn’t something a little galling about a beautiful woman—a beautiful, thin, straight white woman—complaining about how difficult it is to be perfect-looking. We know that, even outside of the entertainment industry, appearance plays an outsized role in women’s success. Plenty of research has shown that attractive people are heavily rewarded in all aspects of life; beauty is a certifiable privilege.

 

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cbattan Women hate you and men always assume you are single. I can relate.

cbattan is there a support group for hot people I can join?

cbattan she think she cute

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cbattan Zoolander 3?

cbattan Time will solve her problem.

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cbattan Outdated?

cbattan Give me a break. Not a victim.

cbattan I have the SAME FUCKING PROBLEM

cbattan yawn 😴😴😴😴

cbattan Thank you new yorker. Does she at least know how to juggle or something?

cbattan Get the fuck outta here with this nonsense.

cbattan It’s that “beauty is skin deep”. FIFY

cbattan 'Technical expertise, the kind that keeps someone relevant and valuable well past retirement age, is a heavy cross to bear.' 'Autistic attention to detail, the kind that makes wildcat investors capable of immensely lucrative trades, is a heavy cross to bear.'

cbattan I, too, struggle with the burden of being really ridiculously good looking.

cbattan not sure about beauty but certainly unearned success is

cbattan Man it is a heavy cross to bear..because without her beauty she has…nothing. 🤮

cbattan I sympathise with her. Something like that is really unbearable. Man can’t even imagine what she is going through… 😔

cbattan Lol the push for european beauty standards making a come back🤣

cbattan The unbearable weight of massive T...

cbattan She's ok. Not enough to humblebrag like this.

cbattan I can assure you being a beautiful woman with giant tits is not an 'outdated' type of beauty. It's one of those things that is always in style. You can't negotiate desire and human nature.

cbattan she's kinda ugly tho

cbattan What a terrible burden, I'm sure she cries herself to sleep from the pure misery she faces on the daily

cbattan So is being undesirable and poor. I can tell you which option the average person will choose, every time.

cbattan Trying to reconcile the author opening with a description of the “undue burden placed on women to maintain their appearance” with their subsequent description of their subject’s appearance as “outdated.”

cbattan Arrogance is why she can only fuq for her jobs.

cbattan It's true. I also feel so burdened by being perfect looking and making millions of dollars and being world famous for doing absolutely nothing else besides looking good.

cbattan is this an onion article? :)

cbattan Very heavy … understandable

cbattan What makes her “perfect looking?” I think Meghan Markle is prettier that Emily Ratajkowski - not that comparing women is a nice thing to do - but if we’re talking “perfect” idk what makes Emily prettier than any other above average white woman….

cbattan For the people who didn’t read the article

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cbattan Nothing like overhyped white beauty standards

cbattan Slow clap for following up your billionaire fellating Covid minimizing with this deep thought piece about yet another model forged in LA body worship culture where I grew up , trained & treated patients. Aren't you grateful Long Covid kills neurons? More subscribers!

cbattan 🎻

cbattan She thinks she's wayyy better looking than she actually is. If she wasn't famous and sitting at a NY bar, half the guys wouldn't look twice.

cbattan Maybe this will lighten her burden some…I really don’t think she’s that pretty.

cbattan Oh boo hoo I’m crying …. Ffs

cbattan Moan. Moan. Moan.

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cbattan Okay Incel.

cbattan Never understood the hype about her. She’s attractive but nothing exceptional like a Megan Fox type.

cbattan There’s nothing outdated about her looks. That millions of years of evolution. Men are attracted to those proportions and no amount of woke propaganda is going to change that.

cbattan I think I would be more sympathetic if she didn’t make a career out of exploiting that fact

cbattan The “ burden of beauty” without insight. In reality she is masking her vanity as victimhood. This so called exploitation sounds more like valdidation on Ratajkowski’s part.

cbattan First time seeing her picture and reading that name. Nowhere near perfection. Normal, ordinary looking woman at best.

cbattan Every person spouting such nonsense should undergo a compulsory 'ugly training'. Say, six months in a fat suit with a not-conventionally-beautiful face mask. That would allow them to understand just how much they take for granted.

cbattan Man that’s rough

cbattan No idea who she is but glad she loves herself. 🙄

cbattan Why are you hyping a story from 2021 now? You’re a weekly publication! I know you’ve got new content!

cbattan Same

cbattan She is the most pretty woman in the world. emrata 💎❤️☺️

cbattan 🙄

cbattan Check The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Freud. I think that is the title. Read it maybe 60 years ago so my memory could be shaky. The book contains several chapters, but one is about the beautiful woman.

cbattan Delete your account

cbattan “Beauty should be celebrated by all and owned by none.”

cbattan im not sure who the heck she is but it’s this a vein article about “burden because I’m perfect” what the hell we have bigger issues that this cancer COVID diabetes etc…

cbattan A lil low blow for new yorker to mention it if its not good. I get new yorker to hear about good writing. A little ashamed

cbattan It’s like Kelso on That 70s Show: “You know what your problem is? I’m too good-looking.”

cbattan Thought this was a headline from the Onion

cbattan Lot of ugly judgmental people respnding

cbattan You think that’s bad try being ugly.

cbattan This is an old article. Emily R trying to have it both ways. Getting rich & famous off her looks while raising tone-deaf and hollow complaints of the system that pays her.

cbattan must be tough being rich and beautiful. Like you could abandon the world and move to Fiji if you don’t want the fame.

cbattan If only they were brains.

cbattan I'm a perfect looking man and life is impossible. I think for a woman it's easier to be good looking

cbattan Who? She's arguing what?

cbattan It's the personal interpretation of what is beautiful.

cbattan 🤔 It’s a heavy burden for academics to bear that they have to keep up with the literature and keep producing new research. It’s a heavy burden for grocery store cashiers to bear that they have to standing 8 hours straight ringing up customers.

cbattan Some wifes of friends said 'she's not beautiful!'😌&my wife said worried to us'she's almost anorexic!' but friends we agreed a so beautiful young woman could eat more delicious meals(as smoky hot chicken broth with butter&chicken dumpsticks&boiled potatoes&blood sausage&toppings)

cbattan Perfect !!!, Where's that 'perfection', she's malnourished and flat AF..

cbattan Meanwhile, in a small square of print at the bottom of the page 'India dissapears under a mushroom cloud'

cbattan So much for your status as a beacon of erudition.

cbattan Luckily, she doesn’t have to carry it.

cbattan poor booboo.

cbattan If she was a doctor or nurse that is having her job be distracted by her beauty, maybe, but she is a model. She has a job, by choice, that gets her money because of her beauty!

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cbattan This should play well.

cbattan In her case, being beautiful and unaware she isn't very bright is especially burdensome.

cbattan Don’t hate her because she’s beautiful; hate her because she can’t effectively articulate the point of her argument with a thesis.

cbattan 'outdated'. Lol.

cbattan Are we bored, yet?

cbattan Not only that, add the burden of the money.

cbattan Never happier to click on “Done”

cbattan If she thinks it's tough being beautiful, wait until she hears what it's like to be ugly.

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cbattan What? I didn't know that perfect ever really existed outside Mario Lopez. But ok.

cbattan There is no perfection in the human being! It is a lie!

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cbattan Unnecessary

cbattan Fart Noise

cbattan I'm no Nostradamus but I can see trouble in the near future once this article goes viral. 🙄

cbattan Not sure how Emily Ratajkowski's beauty's outdated.

cbattan In which the New Yorker argues during a global pandemic that a famous super model is the Christ

cbattan Wow, truly inspirational 🙄

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