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And tall and average-looking men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were tall and handsome. What's your point? Poor and handsome men are no
by freyr 11y ago
And tall and average-looking men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were tall and handsome. What's your point? Poor and handsome men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were rich. And rich and timid men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were confident.
In real life, being handsome generally wins out over being tall, despite many men who fixate on height as a critical factor holding them back. Why is this? Maybe it's easier for someone to imagine himself as taller rather than as more handsome. You could be taller without altering the physical traits that you associate with your identity. Or perhaps most men think of themselves as handsome, whether or not they really are.
> "He said a critical factor."
>> "heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height."
I stand by my assertion that his phrasing implies height is the critical criteria. Of course, this doesn't quite make sense grammatically.
- enraged_camel 11y agoHandsomeness is subjective. Height is objective. You're comparing apples and bananas.
- freyr 11y agoYou've arrived at my original point: we see so many studies that focus on height because height is unambiguous and so easy to measure. This "scientific proof," in turn, makes it seem like a bigger factor than it is. Handsomeness (or physical beauty) is difficult to quantify and therefore much harder to study. Yet that doesn't make it any less of a critical factor to attraction as it plays out in the real world.