The trope is supposed to be about people wangsting about their beauty — at least according to the description.

It's just that "so beautiful that she's Blessed With Suck" really is common enough to be a trope of its own, judging from the examples. Since, AFAIK, we don't have a specific trope for that, they get filed here.

I'd be up for splitting this page into those two concepts if we could find a decent name for one of them.

Unfortunately the people actually doing the wangsting don't seem to see it that way, they seem to actually believe what they're saying...

I agree with Some Guy. There are two ways one can be "cursed" with prettiness; wangsting about how much it "sucks" that people fawn over you, and an actual good reason to believe that it sucks.

Type I: Common of the Mary Sue, this character may wangst about how beautiful he/she is. It seems more like an excuse to brag about it, with a heaping dose of Small Name Big Ego. Or, maybe they just want to be normal, and being exceptionally attractive prevents that from happening.

Type II: Not the beauty itself, but the reactions people may have to said beauty, or the consequences of good looks, cause much (w)angst for the sufferer. Maybe people just don't take them seriously, or assume that whatever they accomplish was from getting by on their good looks, If You Know What I Mean. Whatever the reason, they still consider their beauty a curse.

There's a rough draft of the two main subsets of So Beautiful Its A Curse. Should we add this to the main page?

"Type II: Not the beauty itself, but the reactions people may have to said beauty, or the consequences of good looks, cause much (w)angst for the sufferer. Maybe people just don't take them seriously, or assume that whatever they accomplish was from getting by on their good looks, If You Know What I Mean. Whatever the reason, they still consider their beauty a curse."

That's just being spoiled. Acknowledgement is acknowledgemenmt. Ugly people need to work hard to be praised for their success because nobody is going to praise them for their looks. Beautiful people do not have that problem, yet not only do they want people to praise them, it has to be for the reasons they want others to. Not to mention that working hard is nothing more than an obligation, yet they want to be praised for that.

Ask those pretty people if they would ever undergo plastic surgery to make themselves plain-looking in order to be praised for their success rather than their looks. I doubt any of them would be willing to do that.

This is nothing but Wangst, and worse of all is that a lot of people actually buy it, because they think with their genitals. The human being has an uncanny capacity to get attached to someone for the most superficial reasons, which renders them oblivious to the wanton hipocrisy of the target of their affections, among other things.

You seem like a case of Unwarranted Self Importance. There's actually an interesting read about a case of selective bias or something where people tend to think of themselves as more attractive and capable than they really are. I don't know where to find it, though.

I take the word of people who claim to be attractive on the Internet with a grain of salt. But yes, you are correct about something: ugly people are not the only ones who get bullied.

The point is, when it comes to bullying, what you look like matters very little. The problems is the way you act. Bullies like to target people who are self-conscious, withdrawn, ill-connected (loners or "the new guy") and etc. Basically, regardless of what you look like, if you show any sign of weakness that can be easily exploited, you're already a potential target.

But since ugly people tend to be self-conscious, withdrawn, ill-conected and more all in one, they are more likely to be targeted by bullies than average-looking and attractive people.