The more attractive-looking woman is the pickier...

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Ok, .
Your mind is made up.

Maybe life has made you cynical, I could understand that, I've experienced the type of hurt that has left me cynical too.

My point to you has consistently been, that I think you are chasing after the wrong thing, but, perhaps this is something I have learned through the experiences I have had, based on my external appearance (Btw. I'm alright looking, not wow or anything, I look well when I put in the same preening efforts as other women do).
This is what I meant by women imo, are more likely to have their needs met, not their wants or desires, that is of course if needs are their priority. We can alter our appearance, it is almost expected that we should, moving up the attractive ladder, even if its only an illusion, this provides more experiences to assess what our priorities actually are.

If men had the same range of products and services available for their appearance, everyone could be 'industry-standard attractive'. (joke btw)

^ Read the edit, gypsy Esmeralda.

Oh come now, no need for implied slurs. Please don't do that, I had not considered that was part of your personality.

I read your edit before I replied to it, so I gather you are not interested in the content of my response, thats ok, it doesn't fit with your aim, I thought it was relevant to the thread. No hard feelings.

Slur? Esmeralda is a nice and loveable character.

Last edited by The_Face_of_Boo on 30 Jun 2015, 4:39 am, edited 1 time in total.

Perhaps you hit a nerve, no you did hit a nerve, the word is not a PC one to use to describe someone where I live... Referring to an Irish person as a Gypsy, (gypo, pikie) is a long established slur.

I had no idea about your background nor your nerve against the gypsies, and Esmeralda *is* a gypsy fictional character.

Yeah, like I said, my sensitivity. To explain, seeing as you have mixed up my words in a way that implies bigotry, I don't have any issue with ethnic minorities, but in countries outside of Ireland, I have been called these types of names by people intending them as a slur, as a put down, and yes the intent was effective, it hurt.

So no hard feelings, drop it?

You have to bow on one knee before me first.

You wish!!

Seriously though, sorry about that. I just might have, maybe, over reacted. .

Please carry on explaining why attractive women are pickier....

They do have a range of products, but not quite the same, but it's quite large, increasingly very popular and even more harmful than your products:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-y ... nd-cancer/

http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/muscles-bottle

Let's look at this whole attractiveness issue from a business standpoint. Person A places her beauty on the dating market. Person B places his monetary wealth on the dating market. A potential situation arises in which which Person A trades access to her beauty for the money of Person B. But which person has the greater advantage?

In the short term, it's Person A, since physically beautiful women are in high demand. But in the long term, it's Person B. Why is this?

Eventually, her beauty will fade; and once she reaches her mid-thirties, she is not likely to compete beauty-wise with women aged 18 to 28, thus making her what is known in business as a "Short-Term Depreciating Asset"; much like a brand new car that loses value as soon as it is driven off of the salesman's lot -- after all, she will never look any more beautiful than she did on her wedding day.

His money, however, is likely to increase at a linear or exponential rate, thus making him the "Long-Term Appreciating Asset"; much like a fine wine or work of art that increases in value over time.

So from a business perspective, it is wiser for the man to "rent" the woman's beauty with his money until her beauty is no longer worth whatever he's paying for it; at which point, he can "cancel the lease" and establish a new "rental agreement" with another woman.

Women whose beauty is their only asset may have the privilege of being picky in dating, but only as long as their beauty lasts. Such women would benefit greatly from exploiting their own beauty in exchange for college tuition and a healthy stock portfolio, instead of just fine clothes, a nice car, a fancy home, and other trappings of material wealth.

^ the thread is about a tedency in the general popularion of women; not the sugar babies.

Also I never mentioned about any correlation between looks and personality/substance - I only talked how looks and pickiness are related, and that's all.

The trend I posted seems to scale down easily. A woman sharing a single-wide with her mom might put her looks on the line for a chance to move into a single man's double-wide; and a single man living out of his van might consider the appearance of a woman living out of a shopping cart in exchange for a more secure place for her to sleep and keep her stuff.

Pickiness is a personality trait, and I mentioned substance as what a woman might trade her looks for.

Attractiveness is a currency. The more atractive a woman is, the more currency she has to spend and can therefore afford to be pickier. Staying single is an option regardless of attractiveness but the pool of men to choose from goes up in direct proportion to attractiveness. The more choices you have, the pickier you can afford to be. A truly unattractive woman may only have the choice between one man and staying single. A truly attractive woman may have hundreds of men attracted to her and she can afford to insist on a very specific personality as well as a certain look. With so many men attracted to her, she is statistically more likely to get him.

"Any woman can look good with the right makeup" is something women with a fantastic underlying bone structure sometimes say. From time to time fashion magazines will run photos of models with and without makeup to showcase the difference. This encourages less attrctive women to buy lots of makeup (increasing ad revenue for the magazines, which is why they run the photos) thinking it will have the same effect. It doesn't. To go from plain to wow with just makeup requires a certain underlying bone structure. Unattractive women who try to recreate the efect wind up looking silly and trying to hard. Recruiters for modeling agencies can spot this underlying structure with or without makeup.

Talking about all the personality requirements that a handsome man may fail to meet just proves the point. Attractive women have such a wide range of personality types of men attracted to them that they can be picky about what exact personality they want in a man.

Long ago (I'm 48) I was attractive too and had many of these same illusions. Age and rheumatoid arthriris has taken that away, and with it the illusion that every single woman out there could have the same choices if she just wore the right lipstick. I'm married, but if I weren't, I'd probably just stay single. I shudder to think what paltry choices a middle aged woman with knobby hands and a limp would have.

Last edited by Janissy on 30 Jun 2015, 1:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Are you really a woman, janissy? You are either a transgender or a unicorn case.

I'm not transgender or a unicorn case. I'm a formerly attractive woman, which is in my edit above. Currently attractive women probably don't even realize they are picky. They think all women would have the same buffet of choices to pick from with a little work.