<p>We have all heard of attractive people getting treated better than average looking and especially ugly people in many aspects of life. Attractive people get a higher salary, they make friends easier, and apparently have more choices when it comes to choosing sexual partners or a significant other. Attractive people tend to have more lenient sentences in court as well.
A woman having a 0.7 waist-hip ratio, an hour glass figure or a 36-24-36 measurement matters because it is a sensual way to indicate that she is fertile. A man who has a v-shaped torso, a chiseled face and is tall is usually rated as attracted. Nice hair, skin, and a symmetrical face is an indicator for attractiveness for both genders.
In modern times, reproducing is in less demand and we no longer need offspring to help on the farm or extend the family lineage because such things are obsolete in most cases. The evolutionary reason for putting attractive people on a pedestal is no longer useful. Has technology evolved faster than the primal desire of homo sapiens?<br>
Attractive people have disadvantages such as getting resented by the jealous, don't get taken as seriously because they're perceived as unintelligent, sleazy creeps hit on them all the time and sometimes people only care about their looks and not the real them.
I have noticed that there have been a lot of posts about physical attractiveness lately which indicates that there is a great concern about this. So let's start the debate: Do looks matter? If so, how much? What should you do if your looks affect your life in anyway? Discuss.</p>
<p>Looks do matter to an extent, but I would wager that how you carry yourself (confidence, maturity, self-respect etc.) probably has a bigger impact.</p>
<p>Yes they do, Lakrosse or PMVD or InnovativeBoxx…w/e name you’re using today.</p>
<p>I smell another 5+ pages of complete **** coming up</p>
<p>LOLWUT? I’m mostly doing this for the lulz. I don’t really care, I’m actually doing this in response to all the posts about this crap. I’m just trying to centralize it all because it seems like every other thread here drifts off into this.</p>
<p>Yes. But be carful with statements like “Attractive people get a higher salary”, as you are simplifying the issue by implying some kind of causation instead of the many correlating factors that lead to statistics like that. For all you know people who are more attractive tend to be more confident because of that, and are better networkers who find better jobs.</p>
<p>But the question is, why shouldn’t they? Because some ugly people are p1ssed off about it? That’s the question I never here the whiners answer. We’re hardwired by evolution to judge looks. That doesn’t mean that deficits in attractiveness can’t be overcome by other factors - far from it. Instead of whining about it like certain folks on this forum have, they should be focusing their energy on augmenting their non-attractiveness factors. If they did they’d discover it’s not nearly as big as a “problem” as they whine it is.</p>
<p>Do attractive people get a higher salary? Or are they just more confident to ask for a higher salary? </p>
<p>I read women are less likely to ask for a higher salary.</p>
<p>Sorry to hijack.</p>
<p>^ Go ahead and hijack it, I’m just trying to mitigate all the threads that get hijacked because of this kind of ****.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>THANK YOU! I THINK WE HAVE A WINNER FOR POST OF THE DAY! :)</p>
<p>Crowning win of awesomeness.</p>
<p>if you’re a girl looks matter 100%. If you a guy I’d say you dontneed to that good looking but you gotta be smart, confident, and have money.</p>
<p>
The latter two, yes; the former, no.</p>
<p>We get all of these posts about attractiveness because college kids are insecure. There are plenty of ugly dudes with bangin’ hot wives- values change as people get older and more mature.</p>
<p>In before college students are mature.</p>
<p>
In other words, maturity means going after money rather than looks.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Good point. I don’t understand why the extent of the insecurity is what it is. Thank goodness I’m really hawt and don’t have to worry. lulz.</p>
<p>Bitter uglies will flame in 3…2…1…</p>
<p>Looks don’t really matter as much as people think they do. No one is really paying as much attention to you as you think they are. Looks will give you an edge, but if you’re as dumb as a peanut your looks aren’t going to be worth much. It’s a total package and everyone can look good if they want to.</p>
<p><a href=“http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/38/16/215401266-M.0.0.0x0.432x325.jpeg[/url]”>http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/38/16/215401266-M.0.0.0x0.432x325.jpeg</a></p>
![http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/38/16/215401266-M.0.0.0x0.432x325.jpeg[/url]](http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/38/16/215401266-M.0.0.0x0.432x325.jpeg%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
<p>going after someone for their money is just as shallow.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>That is a very ethnocentric way to view relationships. During the age of royal families, marriage was a diplomatic tool. Arranged marriage was, and still is, a strong method of helping ones’ financial circumstances. A lot of people fanticize about love being true and absolute, but I think the concept of true love is BS. You may argue that relationships out of economic interests are shallow, but note that your statement does not apply to all cultures and peoples. Humans attempt to be noble and logical, but we are essentially animals hard coded for survival. Money helps in that regard.</p>
<p>^ Just because something is a cultural practice doesn’t make it any less shallow.</p>
<p>If a girl is poor, then yes, I can understand making a financially-prudent choice. But if she uses this cash on luxuries like cosmetics and designer clothes, I consider that shallow, ethnocentrism be damned.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Agreed. Even those lame movies about true love tend to contradict their morals because the “soulmate” is rich and handsome by real life standards anyway. I think the concept of true love usually comes from the lonely and immature.
Very good post though.</p>
<p>It depends on what kind of industry you work for. If you’re in the public eye, you’ll probably be favored over those that are less attractive then you. In my industry, my salary is directly related to how I look since I work as a model/showgirl. Does it help that I have a 36-24-36 figure? Absolutely, it makes me a few extra hundred a night, not to mention my boobs are naturally huge. Though confidence does matter in every position. You can be attractive, but if you’re shy about yourself, you won’t appeal to others very well. I make most of my money simply because I am attractive and I have confidence when approaching someone.</p>
<p>Looks don’t matter so much in the real world when you are looking for a long term mate or good friendships. My significant other wouldn’t be something that most people would consider typically attractive but I’m attracted to him more then men that are perfect 10’s simply because my priorities are different now that I’m older. As people age, physical attraction becomes less of a priority in comparison to compatibility, interests, and personality. It’s still always important to be physically attracted to the person you are with because there is no use having an intimate relationship with someone you find repulsive.</p>
<p>There are so many cons to be attractive though. Most people only speak to me because of my looks and it is kind of a self esteem dent to know that people favor you due to something so meaningless.</p>
<p>“The concept of love is BS”…that’s sad, and I feel sorry for you.</p>