That sucks. It sucks to be told you’re ugly. Me and lots of other women have been called ugly before (as others here attested to). To our faces. From passing cars. Online. By people we love. By people we hate. By society. For about a 3 year period, it was a part of my daily life. So, I’m sure his feelings were hurt and he didn’t deserve it. I doubt it happened to him on an institutionalized basis that can impact things like job prospects, for not upholding some specific beauty standard in a way that pleases men.
This is not to say that men aren’t mocked, called ugly or made fun of, but that it happens to women on a regular basis that impacts our lives in measurably different ways then men. No one here has said that calling men ugly is the right thing to do, or in anyway acceptable. That’s not the point of all this at all.
