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It wasn't that the love was wrong, it was too good to be true.
Wyclef Jean on his relationship with Lauryn Hill
It appears to me that if you’re a young woman and you are not pretty you can dress yourself up and transform into fabulous. Fabulousity is universally understood and respected primarily amongst gays, creatives and intellectuals. Pretty’s advantage is that it allows you to be mute yet celebrated whereas fabulousity is an aura, a presence which takes more work to hone but is a viable alternative to prettiness. Concerning male attraction, pretty and fabulous work as inverses. Men gravitate to pretty which comes as a boost to them and to the pretty provider though it does have its pros and cons. Fabulousity challenges the spectator. If said spectator is unable to confront said challenge (typically the straight, insecure or unimaginative) they are repelled from fabulousity in search of something more comprehensible and forgiving. It is also worth mentioning pretty and fabulous are not mutually exclusive but one is definitively more celebratory of woman than the other.
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