mahon83050 said:
god_of said:
B) you practically never see couples that are significantly different in their attractiveness; this is an observation that should NOT be occuring if we live in a world where looks dont really matter to women. Yet we are seeing this observation. This can only mean one thing: Looks matter to women!
I agree with you for the most part, but the key term is
significantly different.
I'll agree that except for maybe once, I have never seen a fat man or a man whose face could qualify as ugly with anything higher than a "6".
right, and its precisely this fact that looks matter to women. If looks didnt matter, then we should be seeing plenty of fat men with women above a 6 score.
BUT WE DONT!
so this means looks must matter!
However, I can't tell you the countless times I have seen guys who are very average (i.e, short, balding, very average facial features) walking around with 7's and 8's.
well this is where it gets complex.
"average facial features", this needs to be defined before we can really say these guys are average looking to the women they are dating. for one, a woman's taste is partly subjective, so he could be fine as hell in her eyes, this hasnt been ruled out unless you ask her. and two, men are usually poor judges of male attractiveness; often we will see a guy who we think has an average face, yet women think hes got a hot face. Women have the same problem; they see some girl who they think is average, yet guys say she has a hot face, and the girl sneers with "oh, she's ugly, you think shes hot?". Ive had female friends and girlfriends react this way all the time when I openly tell them about a girl I think is hot or that guys typically would think is hot, and their judgments often differ.
its hard to judge someone who is the same sex as you.
However, balding I can say is pretty much universally unattractive. But many balding guys shave their heads, and some chicks think the shaved head is hot, and so his male pattern baldness is irrelevant when hes got the hot shaved head look. so actually, it wouldnt be unreasonable to see balding men with hot women in a world where looks matters; IF HES SPORTING THE SHAVED HEAD.
Now, if hes not sporting the shaved head, and is fully advertising his male pattern baldness, then it may be unreasonable, however, HOW OFTEN DO YOU REALLY SEE THIS MEN WITH WOMEN SIGNIFICANTLY MORE ATTRACTIVE? Define "countless times".
My goodfriends sister is quite attractive, yet her fiance is practically bald and could stand to lose some weight to his somewhat chubby face. You see couples like this all the time. However, the guy I described is not UGLY.
true, hes not ugly, yet is your friends sister representative of other women equally attractive as her? how common are "significantly different atttractiveness" couples?