Comedian Michael Henry has returned with a new YouTube video about “pretty privilege.” The result might invite as many shudders as laughs.
In the vid, Henry has tea with a friend–a young, handsome, in-shape man. Henry’s friend begins to chatter about “pretty privilege,” the condition “when you have a really great face, a full head of hair, sexy eyebrows, tight ass, quarter-sized nipples, 8-inch penis. They’re the traits that gay men unanimously like.”
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Henry quips that he’s not sure he likes all those things, but the friend goes on to talk about how he routinely gets jobs, money, gifts, dates and invitations to sex parties that make life so hard. Henry, meanwhile, sips his tea.
His point comes through loud and clear: good looking people have it easier. It may seem as though Henry wants to criticize the LGBTQ community, though the powers of “pretty privilege” extend far beyond the boundaries of the gayborhood. After all, at 26, Hope Hicks went from a low-level position working for Ivanka Trump to White House Communications Director “because she’s pretty.”
But perhaps the first rule of pretty privilege is… don’t talk about pretty privilege.
Unless you’re Michael Henry:
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Please don’t remind us of that beyond normal looking, absolutely nothing special Gay clone Dbag who put that “privilege” video
startenout
Bahahaha too funny
PinkoOfTheGange
In LA west of the Golden State and north of The Santa Monica Freeways he is a 7.5 at best. +0.25 between I5 and I15 and south of I 10.
Heywood Jablowme
Only 8″? lol
Brgod
Total BS, even though this is satire. He a nice looking young man, certainly not drop dead gorgeous by any standard!!!
StupidBoy
Ha! Nailed it. A local gay bar only hires pretty men who will get huge tips and tons of men lined up. Their drinks taste like gasoline and they wouldn’t know a Tom Collins from an Old Fashioned. One of them used to work with me and smelled like B.O. so bad, I almost gagged, but he was young and firm. Oh, well, I have solace in the fact that I probably won’t be fired this week for not having an ass like two cantaloupes fighting in a pillowcase (like some other young man who has been promoted twice by my manager) and I can continue to pay rent. Fun, fun, good times.
Brgod
Totally agree with you, even though gay bars are a dying thing here where I live in Canada (you can be yourself in most bars in a major Canadian city downtown). But the young cute built bartenders I’ve encountered in gay bars here usually have no interpersonal skills with their clientele they will not strike up a conversation with you unless you speak first and are rude – unless you are friends with them they will ignore you and take their friends drink orders first and skip over you even though you were in the queue first! Not saying you are like this, but the pretty ones who think they’re the hottest thing in the world certainly are!
Heywood Jablowme
@StupidBoy: Good point. This says “the friend goes on to talk about how he routinely gets jobs,” and I thought WHAT jobs? I could only think of two likely jobs — Bartender and Bl0w, lol — but both require some skill. Merely being pretty doesn’t do it. As you point out, the pretty boys are often lousy bartenders.
Drug Dealer counts as a job, I guess, but from my observation that seems to require rather precise mathematical skills that most of these pretty boys just wouldn’t have. (Also knowledge of the metric system, so maybe Canadian pretty boys would have a slight advantage.)
tham
There’s no “pretty privilege” since looks are subjective.
For example, the guy he thinks is hot…I find to be blah.
surreal33
What is really funny is that we keep getting bombarded with this garbage. Gay men have accepted the shallow, inane, boring, standard of what is consider attractive. There is NOTHING funny or satirical about portraying gay men as cartoonish, feminine, and stupid.
dean089
Hilarious! I have met guys like this, except they were being deadly serious.
HereIAm
It’s hard to fathom why so many gays are so easily impressed by good looking or so-called “hot” guys. It’s so often the case that highly attractive gays are burdened with deep seated turmoils or psychological defects, defects that once discovered or exposed, will make them frightfully undesirable. Guys that are grounded, reliable, stable, and on the straight and narrow, should be frequently sought and highly valued men.