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If looks are important for employment how then men find a job? Men are mostly unattractive even compared to not a perfect woman. In terms of looks and style, av
by codedokode 2mo ago
If looks are important for employment how then men find a job? Men are mostly unattractive even compared to not a perfect woman. In terms of looks and style, average man loses to an average woman. Or employers require only women to be attractive?
- itishappy 2mo agoI don't think anyone can objectively judge the attractiveness of both genders on one scale.
- petesergeant 2mo ago> Men are mostly unattractive Could it be that _you_ are simply be not as attracted to men as you are to women?
- throw-the-towel 2mo agoStudies show that hetero women tend to agree that most men are not attractive.
- SamoyedFurFluff 2mo agoNah men by and large do not experience the same levels of societal pressure than women do to be attractive, modulo getting into looksmaxxing and other stuff, and even that is mostly to show off masculinity traits to other men and not actually in being attractive to women.
- bigyabai 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
- luqtas 2mo agoyes! i still wondering why feminism had to be created /s
- derektank 2mo agoMen tend to work in less public facing/social career fields. Your appearance doesn’t matter much if you’re a linesman or a welder; it matters more if you’re doing sales or supporting clients. Probably not the entire story, I think people do have different expectations for men and women, but certainly part of it.
- kbelder 2mo agoJust go to a fast food place. There's a strong tendency to have guys in the back cooking, girls in the front at the register.
- monknomo 2mo agoyou know a pretty fair majority of men are working in white collar office work, which is directly comparable in terms of public facing and social careers? real loosely, something like 1/3, 40% are in these blue collar fields, and even in those fields there are enough sales and similar roles that prefer better appearances.
- derektank 2mo agoI would say different white collar jobs have different expectations for personal appearance. For example, even looking solely at the men at my company, our sales reps, marketing lead, and CEO are all more conventionally attractive than our hardware engineers, finance manager, and CTO. And I would say women tend to be at least slightly more likely to wind up in the former positions than the latter (of course we’re speaking in generalities here)
- dgellow 2mo agoMaybe to you, I personally find both the average man and woman attractive. Women spend more time taking care of their bodies though, given societal pressures
- greenavocado 2mo agoIt's attractiveness all the way down
- EPWN3D 2mo agoI'd be surprised if there wasn't a similar dynamic for men. While men probably have a wider range of "acceptable" physical flaws as compared to women, that doesn't mean there isn't a range. A morbidly obese man is probably going to have a tougher time finding a job than a similarly skilled fit and trim man. Part of this is probably unconscious, but another part is probably explicit assumptions about the person's self-discipline, e.g. the fit guy must get up at 6am every morning and go for a run, and the obese guy probably sleeps in, eats trash, etc.
- stevefan1999 2mo ago> Part of this is probably unconscious, but another part is probably explicit assumptions about the person's self-discipline, e.g. the fit guy must get up at 6am every morning and go for a run, and the obese guy probably sleeps in, eats trash, etc. More like stereotypes. For some reason I took both GLP-1 and Ritalin everyday, having moderate exercises despite throwups, only see myself gaining weight rather than losing. I have no idea why both drugs that claims to lose weight only to do the exact opposite, and perhaps I'm the kind of people who can only get fat and not losing it despite some joint efforts. Perhaps it is not enough and I have to go full aerobatic and ketone mode. Money money money.
- estearum 2mo agoExercise basically doesn't do anything for your weight. Have you reduced your calorie consumption?
- RussianBot9580 2mo agoWas GLP-1 oral? Those off-brand lozenges don't do anything. A real GLP-1 slows down digestion so much that if you try to overeat you'll regret it. You'll still be uncomfortably full and ready to throw up on day 2 after that big meal.
- stevefan1999 2mo agoHmm, I've got Rybelsus, it did something. I can reduce my daily meal from 3 to 1 lately, and even on 2 meals I can eat half of it compared to what I typically eats ordinarily, to get full appetite. Still, with all the things I've tried I still gained weight. And I have been noticably getting harder to sleep at night because the hungry feelings comes back. Maybe it is the oral Rybelsus waning off idk
- neutronicus 2mo agoGo to the barber, to to the tailor, go the gym... All these things help.
- colingoodman 2mo ago> If looks are important for employment how then men find a job? This feels very fallacious. Attractiveness can be important but not the only factor that matters. Height is a way that men are judged as attractive. Likewise, tall men tend to do better than short men on income and promotions.
- Izkata 2mo agoMen get the same effect through things that are traditionally masculine. Off the top of my head, things like height, ruggedness, and for clothes you want straight lines (such as with suits, which a well-fitting one has a lot of and a badly fitting one curves around the body and breaks the straight lines).
- throw-the-towel 2mo agoWell you kinda said it yourself? If men are generally unattractive then a man should be less likely to lose out to a better-looking man, simply because there's fewer of these to go around.
- codedokode 2mo agoYes but an average man would lose to most of women in term of looks, style, clothes choice, skin care, makeup, hair, etc. If employers cared only about looks then they would prefer to hire women. Of course, it is possible that only women get judged by looks and men are not.
- compiler-guy 2mo agoPeople look for different things for "beauty" in men and women. Taller people--an area where men have a very distinct advantage--make more money and have an easier go of things. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X23000540 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X2... "Based on the meta-analysis, we found evidence that the height premium varied by context: the height premium was smaller in the U.S. and Australia, and larger in Latin America and Asia. Within geographies, there appeared to be a larger height premium for men than for women."
- RussianBot9580 2mo agoNot exactly sure why this is downvoted - seems like a genuine question. Here's a random Internet troll's theory (mine): there's a kernel of truth to the whole "patriarchy" thing. It's just that most men aren't part of it. Hold that pitchfork for just a moment! What I meant was: the entire economy is controlled by a very small number of people. Most of them are men, and they have very particular preferences. Assuming the majority of them are straight, it would make sense that they prefer women they see as pretty, and don't care much about men. If anything, a good looking man might be a competitor. I don't think this idea is completely nuts. Think of the few times in history when a woman had real power. For example, Catherine the Great. Who was suddenly promoted to positions of influence? Sexy men, her "favorites" (yes, that's an actual term).
- exolymph 2mo agoWomen and men are not judged according to the same standards. We're not super sexually dimorphic as a species, but certainly enough to matter in terms of evolved social responses.