I'm going to agree with you that women don't have good taste in men. It does seem like a guy can have nothing going for him (and everything going against him) except for one hard to identy thing and he'll do better with women than a guy who has seemingly a lot more going for him. I'm convinced it's something women pick up mostly visually. But there defiinetly must be trait(s) tht cause attraction and it's not a totally random thing, otherwise there wouldn't be such hard to account for disparity between one guy's success and another's.