Here& #39;s a thing: personally I don& #39;t see the worth in reframing or reclaiming & #39;ugly& #39;, or saying that & #39;some people are unattractive and that doesn& #39;t mean they& #39;re worth less& #39;.

If one person - let& #39;s say my girlfriend - says I& #39;m attractive, then I can& #39;t be Objectively Unattractive.

And the secret, the easy way to me really is to accept that there is -no such thing- as Objective Beauty or Ugliness.

It& #39;s the closest thing to Enlightenment I can think of, a realisation that once come to, we can all just MOVE ON from.

And then we can actually come to terms with how we still stratify by Conventional Western Attractiveness.

So no, you as a Conventionally Attractive person* saying "some people are ugly and that& #39;s okay" isn& #39;t empowering, it& #39;s patronising and beside the point.

I don& #39;t (re)claim "ugly", especially while thousands of activists around the world still unthinkingly use my conventional unattractiveness to score bogus points on bigots.