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It would be demoralizing because your attractiveness shouldn’t factor into whether you can get academic help

The individuals offering sessions are not employees or staff of the university.

Upperclass men are not the only source of academic help and if they were then there would be significantly greater problems.

Why not? This is reality and how the world works. Attractive men and women get promoted more easily, get better service in bars and restaurants, etc… to infinity.

This idea that it’s more worthwhile to wail at the sky about how the world works rather than acknowledge it and seek to take advantage of other areas of life where the scales are tipped in your favor fucking mystifies me.

> Why not? This is reality and how the world works.

Why not hire based on attractiveness and promote based on blowjobs? This is reality and how the world works.

... alternatively, we could strive to make the world a better place.

That’s perfectly fine, imo?

There’s clearly a disadvantage to not having any meritocratic considerations during the hiring process and it will eventually come back to bite the hiring company. That said, everyone has free will and should be completely free to hire whomever they want for whatever reasons they want.

Nah, we have laws to protect us from people like you. Society is better off, whether or not you can see that.

Where would you draw the line on how the world works, though? For example, I imagine it's quite natural to want to kill someone. People do it all the time, even though it's outlawed. Should that also be fine, because aggression is natural, and nature is how the world works?

> This idea that it’s more worthwhile to wail at the sky about how the world works rather than acknowledge it and seek to take advantage of other areas of life where the scales are tipped in your favor fucking mystifies me.

Yep. This discussion is full of insinuation that trying to leverage your knowledge or intelligence to attract women is _manipulation_ or _predatory_.

Attractive people definitely get more help from peers regardless of class. However, this is a strange situation where they literally already know all the material. IMO they shouldn't be taking the class.

I agree it shouldn't factor into getting help from class TA's.

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