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My "type" is someone who has a brain, an opinion on important issues, doesn't follow the hive, won't get me into trouble or debt, won't cause unnecessary drama and has a vagina. It's that simple.
This simply isn't true. It sounds like she was cherry-picking examples that supported her thesis. Plenty of very attractive women use their looks to play as many men as they can. It's an ego-trip.
Yes, some do. A couple of interesting things I see skimming the paper:
"... whereas the social structural perspective indicates that women will favor committed, longer-term relationships, the evolutionary perspective suggests that women will also pursue uncommitted, short-term sexual encounters—but will be more selective than men in picking casual sexual partners."
and
"Table 2 also shows that for women, the number of sexual partners decreases monotonically with increasing physical attractiveness, whereas for men the number of sexual partners increases monotonically with increasing physical attractiveness. For women, the number of reported partners also decreases with BMI: Thinner women report fewer partners. Thinness is a dimension of attractiveness for women, so this pattern is consistent with the finding that more attractive women report fewer sexual partners."
While the paper may be correct in saying that more attractive women have fewer sexual partners, looking at table 2 shows that the difference in the mean number of sexual partners between the most and least attractive women is less than one. Based on weight, the difference is less than 1.6!
These differences are not going to be generally observable amongst people we know. It's significant statistically in a large enough sample (which this study appears to be using) and bears out the conclusions, but is small enough that it really does not matter to most people.
Unless he's wealthy, an ugly man is doomed. Let's stop pretending otherwise. Male / female "ugly" is very different. Few women are truly ugly, but male hormones enhance male ugliness. Plus, if the guy is shy due to being endlessly teased for his appearance, forget it. If he has good insurance that will cover therapy + plastic surgery maybe there's salvation, but otherwise the guy may as well put a bullet in his head and be done with it, if he cannot deal with eternal singledom. Let's stop sugar coating it, beating around the issue and let's stop blaming people for being naturally superficial. It's human nature.
Facts of life in the USA 2013. You must be either or:
- Wealthy or at least independently middle class
- Hot/cute
- Have a strong/powerful personality, although you need to be either rich in looks or money to truly justify that.
Those are the facts. "Bring something to the table" or eat on the floor with the other lepers of eternal singledom.
Here's the thing I have noticed about ugly men, at least the ones I have come in contact with. They have all had nasty personalities so of course they will likely stay single. I have a theory about this and that is they believed the lie that women don't judge on looks so they pursued the same women in demand as the better looking men, maybe even got used financially (seen this often where these men spent lots of money trying to win affection)only to end up alone. Because of this they developed an attitude. I haven't met a lot of ugly men who were nice too. That's why when I talk an ugly men online my first thought is he is probably a nasty man to boot. Stereotype, sure but when it's mostly what I have come across then it makes sense.
If these ugly men stayed in their league and pursued ugly girls I don't think they would be as bitter. At least that is my theory.
CUPID’S ARROW: The Dating Market Really Is A Market. “McClintock’s study shows that just as good looks may be exchanged for status and financial resources, attractiveness may also be traded for control over the degree of commitment and progression of sexual activity.”
Interestingly, the more attractive the woman, the fewer sexual partners.
Among her findings:
-Very physically attractive women are more likely to form exclusive relationships than to form purely sexual relationships;they are also less likely to have sexual intercourse within the first week of meeting a partner. Presumably, this difference arises because more physically attractive women use their greater power in the partner market to control outcomes within their relationships.
-For women, the number of sexual partners decreases with increasing physical attractiveness, whereas for men, the number of sexual partners increases with increasing physical attractiveness.
-For women, the number of reported sexual partners is tied to weight: Thinner women report fewer partners. Thinness is a dimension of attractiveness for women, so is consistent with the finding that more attractive women report fewer sexual partners.
Not sure why people are saying that statement isn't true. It's absolutely true. I'm not saying there's no attractive single women, but most of the very attractive ones are 'off the market' and handpicked first by men because of their looks. They rarely have a shortage of male suitors, I've seen that for myself. Men have a 'grateful' attitude toward very attractive women, whereas an uglier woman has no power over men. A lot of them are desperate to get men and feel they have to sleep with them quickly, a very pretty woman doesn't feel obligated to do anything at all where these things are concerned and she's not made to feel that way either.
Not sure why people are saying that statement isn't true. It's absolutely true. I'm not saying there's no attractive single women, but most of the very attractive ones are 'off the market' and handpicked first by men because of their looks. They rarely have a shortage of male suitors, I've seen that for myself. Men have a 'grateful' attitude toward very attractive women, whereas an uglier woman has no power over men. A lot of them are desperate to get men and feel they have to sleep with them quickly, a very pretty woman doesn't feel obligated to do anything at all where these things are concerned and she's not made to feel that way either.
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