While Rejection Is Part of Many Occupations, It Seems to Be

question 262

Multiple Choice

While rejection is part of many occupations, it seems to be more evident among models. What makes rejection so much harder for models than for many others?

• A) Everyone feels entitled to make brutally negative comments about a model's body.
• B) Comments that would be considered sexual harassment in other work sites are considered part of the norm in the modeling industry.
• C) Rejection is taken more personally, perhaps, because so much of what others say about them challenges their own conceptions of beauty.
• D) All of the above.

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