Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I think it was Roissy who said most beholders agree on what beauty is. When a woman is selected by an alpha male it validates her superiority in a way that is undeniable by other women. Suz is correct that many women are deeply envious of extremely beautiful women but their real battle is with the alpha male process of pursuit and selection. You often see the phrase males display females choose which is an incomplete observation.

Women then decide if the pursuing male is desired also an act of choice. Both sexes display and both choose in Westernized societies at least. The better way to describe the Western SMP is with the concept that women are the gatekeepers of sex and men are the gatekeepers of commitment. Ultimately then women may envy their more beautiful rivals but their resentment is toward the male sex drive and the male selection imperative.

In the second paragraph of Suz's comment she refers to beta males as slightly above us in status but close enough that we can pretend they're beneath us. I find this observation fascinating. It helps confirm my belief that most women care deeply about how males regard them even beta males and that the exercise of male judgment is an unseen and very powerful social tool that beta males have allowed to atrophy out of a misplaced sense of chivalry.

This dovetails perfectly with the female hypergamous impulse. When the approval of lower males is handed over in typically white knightish ways the approval of higher men will be sought. So much of feminist social effort has been spent in the effort to convince beta males that they are lesser than the women they desire and to convince the average women of the same thing. I suspect that feminist women never really believe this because otherwise they would cease their efforts to beat down the beta