So how common is pretty privilege? Anyone else who considers themselves average who doesn’t experience it?

Not a girl but since I was about 15 I was always considered decently attractive. I think pretty privilege is more than just free drinks at a bar. I think it's subtler than that. Everyone you meet tends to have an immediately higher view of you than they otherwise would, and it pretty much tracks everywhere along the attractiveness spectrum. I'm sure that a lot of the friends I have probably wouldn't have tried to be my friend had they considered me less attractive. I believe I had a much easier time finding jobs because people assume I'm friendly and will reflect well on the appearance of the business - especially in customer service roles it was always easy for me to get hired. So I think it'd be harder to make friends, get dates (obv), get jobs, and even stuff like cops pulling me over have been rlly nice to me in the past and never given me a ticket (I'm sure there's some intersecting privileges there, as well as luck). And I'm not crazy attractive by any means, so I think the real privilege is in not being ugly. Everything about life is probably much harder for people who are below average on a traditional attractiveness scale.

So that's my 2 cent humble brag, but seriously I think pretty privilege is a very powerful force beyond just the overt stuff.

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