superiority defined by beauty

take a room full of people. if you're attractive, you're greeted with an equal mix of curiousity, civility, and resignation. cusiousity from men, civility by some, and resignation from women.

women loathes other women they see as more attractive than they are. it's something stitched in our genes and cannot be warded off, however one pretends. fault-finding scrutinies will start boiling, some very vocal about it and most keep it to themselves. it has something to do with attractive women getting most number of backtakes, most number of ear-to-ear smiles, getting away with almost everything, and more importantly, being called and recalled beautiful.

if your face is nondescript, you're usually non-existent. "Joy, who?". you are then recalled only by the length of your hair and the purple tight-fitted jeans you wore ten years ago. "ah, kato nga Joy."

so if you are not cute, you might as well be clever. and that's hard to sport.