First all, while some beauty aspects are subjective, mostly, it is not: The majority of people often agree what's good-looking and what is not -weight and height have great impact on overall attractiveness as well.
And *most* people realize their own attractiveness scale, from comparing themselves to others, from comparing the other sex's reactions to them vs to others...etc, people learn sooner or later their attractiveness scale from multiple of sources and cues. Meaning, that a conventionally beautiful woman/man usually realizes she/he is so, same for the conventionally unattractive.
The title is a known fact taboo that everyone don't like to admit, no?
Here is study about this correlation:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHar ... id=4521988
and it's pretty consistent with anecdotal evidences we see around us: viewtopic.php?t=287210
It's probably why I often see equally short guys with heavy girls (really heavier than their guys).
It also consistent with an OKcupid stat, which makes things pretty clear: Men have better chances with women who are less handsome than themselves.
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One interesting thing seems to be going on here: when the best-looking men write the worst-looking women message success rate takes a big hit. The knee-jerk response would be to somehow chalk it up to hunky spammers, but we very carefully control for that in these articles, and in any event why would better-looking girls be drastically more susceptible to it? It seems to be some kind of self-confidence thing.
There's also a matter of supply and demand, most people prefer the better looking people, so the better looking people have more supply ==> More suitors ==> affording to be pickier ==> higher standards.
It's pretty consistent with my experiences too:
- Like for example yesterday, a girl who I don't even know, kept awkwardly looking at me, smiling...and she kept asking me if I wanna take the next machine...uhm, her interest was obvious. This girl is twice my weight and even taller than me.
- Few days, another girl who's also overweight approached me telling me 'nice shape you have there' .... uhm...her interest was so obvious too.
- In Online dating, the fastest ones who give away their phone numbers to me (like from 2nd message) *always* happen to be overweight girls, I don't find out that until I see their full body photo later - which is often cropped or taken in certain angle on their profile.
- Also girls who lose weight, elevate their standards: You see them talking with handsome guys that they didn't dare to talk to before, I have witnessed this in girls who lost weight quickly. I had a buddy who was really overweight, and she always told me about specific very handsome (tall and dark) guys but she never dared to talk to them, after she undergone fat surgery she started talking to these same guys, what's funny that she ghosted me after that.
I'm pretty much friendly with everyone, I would engage a conversation with any girl (and even guys) regardless if I perceive them physically attractive or not - I've realized that not so many guys do that - I think this is where those heavy girls get the idea that they may have a shot with me.
So yeah, guys, if you are so desperate for a relationship, aim much lower in the looks department than what you were aiming at before.