Thank you for writing this! I'm certainly not the most beautiful person in the world, far from it, but from the time I was about 20 until well, now (but it's slowing down a bit), I experienced much of what you described, being stopped in the street, etc., offered this and that. I got and still get a few glares from other women. What really gets me about the beauty trap are the assumptions, assumptions that I'm a bitch, that I'm stuck up, that I'm less intelligent than I am. It really is all bullshit. Everyone I've ever met has something beautiful about them. Lord, I could go on, but then I'd end up becoming one of "those people" that write an entire article in the comments