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Well, yes. Beautiful people are more easily forgiven than ugly people. It’s just human nature; we like looking at beautiful things, so naturally we’re going to forgive them more easily. 

Its kinda what happens alot at schools..

 if a girl is beautiful but has horrible grades and is a real snob to everyone, people will still look up to her cause she’s pretty.Like the “popular kids”Ya remember high school? lol.

I think it’s just the media’s portrayal of celebrities that affects how people think about them. I mean, the press zoomed in on that tiny little necklace. If it were today, they would probably compliment that unique-looking accessory without investigating its contents.

angelina jolie isnt even that hot.  theres hotter.

as for is it easier to forgive the faults of beautiful people, yes it is.  its even harder to remember the faults of beautiful people cause their so fragile cause their beautiful and cant stand any heat yet “ugly” people cant be forgiven, they should (be able) to take all the sh** and than some just cause their “ugly”.  thats how society is and thats how people are, admit it, deny it its the truth.

I don’t think she is that beautiful..her lips completely take over her face which is too bony in the first place. Her frame is too skinny to look healthy and her skin is getting saggier these days.

She’s talented though and I don’t hate her or anything. Just don’t see why people say she’s the most beautiful woman.

woah i didn’t know that about her… that’s SO creepy.

but anyway, yeah beautiful people are MUCH more easily forgiven.

@greatsneha@xanga - agreed.

@Heatherwhoelse@xanga - Oh man, that kind of school would suck. Thank goodness that doens’t happen in my highschool. If they’re pretty but dumb, they still have friends if they’re nice. If they’re pretty but dumb and a SNOB, they’re hated.

She looks an awful lot like Rosario Dawson in that latter picture.

And she’s damn good at making herself look good in the media’s eyes when she wants to.

Yeah, beauty has something to do with it – it always does. But I think the reason she is left alone is because she has confidence and keeps herself together. Take Brittany Spears for example. She had some issues and the media attacked her. It wasn’t due to a lack of beauty; she just lost control of herself. Angelia has some quirks, but she’s in control.

@cork8board@xanga - Well put!

It’s true!

Hell yes it is easier for everyone to forgive beautiful people.

I say this with a beautiful friend of mine in mind: the girl’s probably the most stunningly gorgeous person I’ve ever met, but she’s dumb as a rock and gets away with everything…

Is it just me or does she kinda have this holier than thou attitude sometimes? She’s a talented actress and everything but that’s just the feeling I get from her sometimes.

I, personally, never thought she was weird.
My family kisses on the mouth, as do other families that I know.
And the blood thing I find normal, too. So she wasn’t a preppy little starlet? So she was a little bit goth? Why is that a bad thing?
The real problem is that people judge so easily.

No.. I still think she’s a psycho who makes out with her brother and also a home wrecker. She’s not fooling me. 

it depends on the situation. what was there to forgive Angelina Jolie for?  So she was quirky, creepy, and/or wierd.  She wasn’t harming anyone.

most likely yes. research studies have actually shown that beautiful people have it easier in all areas in life. it’s easier for them to get jobs, make friends, form relationships, be liked, etc. but that still doesn’t mean they should do whatever they want to do regardless of other people’s feelings.

Yeah.  I feel bad for saying that, but it’s true.  One of my friends used to be rounder than he is now.  Before, people would get annoyed with him, berate him, and glare at him when it wasn’t even necessary.  He’s been working out and he’s now normal sized, if not edging on the thin side.  People tolerate, and even like, him now.  It’s really cruel.

@x_DarkNewDay@xanga - 

Yes, the same happend in my school too.

It’s different for everyone, but I do think it’s weird about the vial of blood and all. Mm, I guess we don’t focus on those things because their famous and whatnot :\ It’s all about the economy stereotyping everyone I guess.

woow i did not know that about angelina. 

i remember that! i’ve often wondered the same thing! it always amazed me how someone who dressed completely in black and wore the same vial of blood to the oscars can be labeled the world’s sexiest woman today. and manage to snatch brad pitt in the process. 

hmm!! i remember all of that about angelina… but i think it’s because she doesn’t make a big fuss about what people say about her, we forget her mistakes.

it’s like if you made a rude comment to a friend and made your friends think, “did she really say that?” and as you carry on your conversation as if you didn’t say it, your friends forget that you said it. and from time to time, they do remember what you said… but don’t make a big deal out of it because you didn’t. o_O

am i making sense? lol

She still is and always has been quirky. But now she’s just a little more refined and put together on the red carpet. She’s also calmed down quite a bit since she became a mother. But no one will ever forget those crazy moments of hers.

She’s just always been intriguing.

It happens alot sadly, the beautiful people are often forgiven too easily. While many of the rest of us don’t get a whole lot of the “forgive and forget” treatment. 

ewww she did what?

I dunno… maybe yes or maybe no…. 

lol, you’re not the only person who remembers her awkward behaviours… I always thought she was a weird one, well, until recently.

But, back to your point. I do think ‘beautiful’ people do get their way much easier than ‘ugly’ people.  I mean, some people even choose to only hang out with beautiful people and hate ugly people without even getting to know them.

Didn’t know any of that. Kinda creeped out now.

People are funny (and I mean the funny little negative comments I see)..

Lots of people have their darker sides in life.  I know I did.  She got over it and seems to be in a happy, comfortable time of her life now.

I don’t necessarily think “beautiful people” are easier to forgive… When someone does something vile (which, in Angelina Jolie’s case, the mentioned acts are not vile, but nothing short of her personal wacky self), in my eyes, it just turns that person into an uglier person because of it.  If they came to terms with things and sorted their life out and are fixing things if it isn’t already fixed, *that’s* what makes the person forgivable.

ABSOLUTELY!

I know a cute little girl about 11 years old, and everyone just fawns over how cute she is. Freaky skinny, really short, bright blue eyes, tan skin, and wavy blond hair.

(while I am older than her, not as skinny, tall, a weird blue/green eye mix, white as a ghost, and straight dark hair… aka, not as pretty)

and that little girl gets away with everything. EVERYTHING!! I’ve known her forever, and she’s never gotten punished. Only complimented. Sigh.

Heh…you think I’ve forgiven her for being weird? No. That is way gross that she had her husbands blood and vice versa. It’s also GROSS she made out with her BROTHER?! YUCK! And, how again did she get Brad Pitt? Because I thought he was involved with this other actress…named Jennifer? Yeah. I know he’s just as much to blame…but c’mon.

She can be kinda’ off the wall BUT to me, that’s part of the reason why she’s so attractive.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t see those things as faults.. I seen them as different and somewhat funny.

I thought she was weird. It’s written all over her face. Yet, I didn’t hear those two news!

Confirmed: Angelina is weird.

of course, it’s not a good thing but people tend to forget about one’s creepy moments if they’re beautiful, they get away with more too!

More than the brother thing or the blood thing I think everyone seems to forget that the father of her children was married when they first fell in love.

That is a big no in my book, and, while I normally wouldn’t think twice about wearing a vile of blood around your neck, allowing yourself to be involved with a married man is a huge, glaring transgression.

Ehh, she’s overrated XD

thats kinda wierd with the blood O-O

Yes.

Yep, no doubt about it.

A couple of things I’d like to mention:  You pretty much answered your own question about the public looking past Angelina’s former crazy lifestyle.  It’s because she’s cleaned up her act so much in the process of maturing into an adult, and doing something to help others rather than focusing on herself.  In fact, she was so inspirational, Madonna followed her lead.

Drew Barrymore was once a wild child who went through alcohol and drug abuse to where she was blacklisted in the film industry at one point.  Today, she’s a successful actress and film producer, so I guess the public does forgive over time.

Angelina is not immune to public scrutiny.  The way the media portrays her has some of the public hating her for stealing Brad away from Jennifer. 

I don’t think it’s purely her beautiful looks that earned her sympathy from the public eye, but she went out, did something without caring about people’s opinion, and people ended up liking her.  On a side note, I’ve come across people who are both ugly in and out, and those are very hard to forgive.

not too fond of that woman.

they are different from normal people. period.

that’s probably true, but the way you put it is wrong. i mean, all celebrities are more gorgeous than the average people you see out on the streets. so that way the media would be less harsh on all of them, which isn’t true.

I think that is what makes her stand out from other actresses. She is the creepy Ocsar winning tattooed woman of Hollywood. The way she goes about like its no big thing, that it is just the way she is makes some things we find weird, acceptable.

Honestly, I am not an Angelina fan but I do admire how she simplifies the oddest of the odd and how she IS who she IS and doesn’t conform to the Hollywood stereotype.

I didn’t even know about those events.

She’s a creep.

I do think our society has a tendency to forgive beautiful people for their mistakes or crimes more easily than non-beautiful people But I don’t think Angelina Jolie is a good example.  She was,and maybe still is kooky and eccentric, but the stuff above doesn’t beg forgiveness.  Now that Tara Conner, Miss Teen USA, she got off the hook way too easily.

I never liked angelina jolie.

I think that she is just doing the “charity thing” just so that she could still keep her fame.

I think she already realized that people got tired of her creepy antics that is why she suddenly decided to act and to pretend like she gives a shit about the world and all just so that people can see something different about her for once and so that she could receive some major press coverage…

She is so plastic.  Just like most of those hollywood personalities.

She is not even that beautiful anyway…. I don’t know what you guys see in her….and her acting sucks too.

You know who is beautiful and smart?  NATALIE PORTMAN!

NATALIE FOREVER!

haha good ol’ Angelina, gotta love her. I don’t think it has anything to do with being beautiful. There are many stars who are (in my opinion) unattractive who have done “self-damaging” acts to their careers. Look at Crispin Glover on David Letterman. Britney for crying out loud was a disaster the last few years, but how come everyone forgot about all of a sudden? “Bad” publicity is still publicity and will get people to remember them even better regardless of how unnattractive/attractive they are. There’s a saying that goes “Time heals everything”, which is true for everything.

There was a study done in the field of social psychology which shows that we are more compassionate towards pretty people.
They had a girl who had her hair done up and her make-up on, wearing a nice outfit, standing outside the biology department on a campus asking for donations.   She said she had been bitten by a lab rat and needed money for a rabies shot at the student health center.   They then had her do the same thing only with her hair a mess, no make-up, and wearing sweat pants and a plain t-shirt.   When she only had a band-aid on her finger, where the supposed bite was, people gave on average the same amount.   However, when she had a gauze pad soaked with blood over the injury, people on average gave significantly more when she was dressed up and looking pretty.

We are definitely affected by people’s appearances

Angelina Jolie is beautiful, bold and crazy and wickedly clever at getting what she wants.  What a gal.

Most things in this shallow, material world are easier gained with good looks and that’s the ugly truth of it.  Talent may or may not go far, but beauty will get you noticed either way.  Angelina Jolie was blessed with both, it seems, plus a high dose of confidence. She’s like Madonna that way, acting ludicrous and getting away with it because of fame and beauty.  As long as Angelina Jolie travels gracefully into the trembling of time, she might become more like Audrey Hepburn and maybe make a difference somewhere, whereas Madonna is fast becoming a caricature of herself as she once was.  Like Mae West did.  Beauty doth fade, the soul ever travels.

I remember it, but all in all, who the fuck cares? She doesn’t, and that is what makes her awesome- She’s her own person, and doesn’t let others’ opinions get in the way of her living her life- I suppose it helps that she is beautiful… but that’s okay-

yeah you beautiful people get all the perks (especially women)

you get asked out by all the guys
you get treated better everywhere you go
you get more promotions or higher salaries

….but gosh darnit…you give us all erections

so you’re forgiven

I love Angelina Jolie, and it’s not because I think she’s pretty.

She’s an amazing actress. My favorite roll of hers is in Girl, Interrupted, and she looked just awful in that movie. Her “creepiness” I think adds to the appeal. She’s obviously so caring about people. She loves her brother, and is comfortable enough with him to kiss him like that. It’s sweet. I don’t even feel comfortable enough with my brothers to give them a hug. I wish I had that kind of relationship with them. She also love(d) her husband enough to wear a necklace that symbolized their partnership and sacrifices for each other. The fact that she even married him, I think, shows that she’s not interested in what people look like. He’s an ugly guy, and she could have married anyone… Like Brad Pitt for example She’s also caring enough to adopt needy children…. She’s seems like a wonderful person, even if she shows it differently than most people would.

some familys kiss on the lips. i agree she took it too far. the vile of blood thing isnt that creepy its an immature thing but people do it. and yes now shes a mother. when you become a mother you tend to grow up and mature. and become someone better. it happens that way its life. i like angelina jolie. always have.

But honestly its life. and celebs. have money so that happens. >.<

I feel like I just had this conversation during the Oscars. Angelina had a run where she was doing EXTREMELY crazy stuff….then she breaks up a marriage and adopts some kids and becomes this lady using her life and her fame to help people and EVERYONE just switches to adoring her.  It’s so America and Hollywood. 

I think what she is doing is fabulous…hopefully they keep having kids that’s a lot to handle, but hey it’s her life, more power to her. 

I don’t even think that angelina is attractive. I think she looks weird, and acts weird. She gives off that serial killer vibe to me. And most people don’t even know about her wearing Billy Bob Thornton’s blood. Which is probably half the reason why she creeps me out.

Usually giving a sibling a little peck is not a big deal, but she’s way too into kissing her brother.

But honestly she’s forgiven by most of the public cause they don’t even know about her creepy stuff.

ange made out with her brother!!?? i never ever knew that. but now that i do….ew. thats incest.

People forgive her because she contributes back to society. I mean she adopts foreign kids for goodness sake!

I don’t think that’s what’s going on in her case. I know a lot of people who still find her trashy and think she’s a homewrecker and yadda yadda yadda. But she did do a complete 360 and after a while, bring up the ole vials of blood and kissing-her-brother stage gets old.

So I don’t think the world necessarily turned a blind eye to her weird behaviour just because she’s a pretty face, I think they just moved on..