Less attractive people

urabell · 15-10-2013 07:59PM #1

Are less attractive people more attracted to other less attractive people than an attractive person would be? For example in a nightclub setting it's pretty common you'll see two mingers eating the face off each other, are they actually attracted to each other or are they just settling? I know there's a certain level of subjectivity but some people just don't have any aesthetic qualities.

Obviously this doesn't apply to relationships and actually falling in love, I've fallen head over heels for girls that, when it comes to looks just aren't in my league. I'd take an ugly life partner who I could relate to over a wetser with no personality any day, obviously I'll go for the best of both worlds if I can though. When it comes to one night stands though it's all about looks and I won't settle.

TLDR Do less attractive people find other less attractive people attractive or are they just settling for what they can get?

Gran Hermano · 15-10-2013 08:02PM

urabell wrote: »

... over a wetser with no personality...

A true champion of modern day prose.

Links234 · 15-10-2013 08:02PM

this might shock you to find out, but there's no real objective standard for attractiveness, and different people will find different people attractive

brummytom · 15-10-2013 08:05PM

Speaking as a less attractive person: No, I'm not attracted to fellow facially-unfortunate people.

miss no stars · 15-10-2013 08:06PM

Links234 wrote: »

this might shock you to find out, but there's no real objective standard for attractiveness, and different people will find different people attractive

Put Cara Delevingne next to someone who's short, fat, has bad skin, a big forehead & chin, crooked nose, pokey eyes and a measly mouth and tell me there's no such thing as an objective standard for attractiveness.

Sure, people will have differences in who they're attracted to visually, but overall some people ARE more attractive than others. If no such difference really existed, people like Cara wouldn't be rolling in it.

urabell · 15-10-2013 08:07PM

brummytom wrote: »

Speaking as a less attractive person: No, I'm not attracted to fellow facially-unfortunate people.

Thank you for the honesty, that being said actual ugly people are as rare as hen's teeth, a few aesthetic improvements and an attitude change will sort most people out. We're all gonna make it it the end friend

Howard Juneau · 15-10-2013 08:09PM

No, my wife is quite good looking,
but I'd make quasimodo feel pity for me lookswise.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 15-10-2013 08:09PM

miss no stars wrote: »

Put Cara Delevingne next to someone who's short, fat, has bad skin, a big forehead & chin, crooked nose, pokey eyes and a measly mouth and tell me there's no such thing as an objective standard for attractiveness.

... i don't know which one is supposed to be the objective standard in this example.

Neeson · 15-10-2013 08:10PM

That CD one looks very manly. Too much so for my liking.

mutley18 · 15-10-2013 08:12PM

Neeson wrote: »

That CD one looks very manly. Too much so for my liking.

She looks like my brother.

miss no stars · 15-10-2013 08:14PM

mutley18 wrote: »

She looks like my brother.

If your brother looks like this he could make a lot of money:

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15-10-2013 08:14PM

We take all comers.

Links234 · 15-10-2013 08:14PM

miss no stars wrote: »

Put Cara Delevingne next to someone who's short, fat, has bad skin, a big forehead & chin, crooked nose, pokey eyes and a measly mouth and tell me there's no such thing as an objective standard for attractiveness.

Sure, people will have differences in who they're attracted to visually, but overall some people ARE more attractive than others. If no such difference really existed, people like Cara wouldn't be rolling in it.

had to look up who that was, http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Cara+Delevingne+Samsung+Galaxy+Features+Arrivals+Rpt56pZPWA6l.jpg

see to me, she's not particularly attractive. it's the ultra skinny model thing, not a draw for me at all

urabell · 15-10-2013 08:21PM

Links234 wrote: »

had to look up who that was, http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Cara+Delevingne+Samsung+Galaxy+Features+Arrivals+Rpt56pZPWA6l.jpg

see to me, she's not particularly attractive. it's the ultra skinny model thing, not a draw for me at all

So you're not really attracted which is fine, have you ever found yourself playing tonsil hockey with a girl of her type in a nightclub? I just don't understand why people hook up with someone they're not physically attracted to.

Alter-Ego · 15-10-2013 08:22PM

mutley18 wrote: »

She looks like my brother.

She looks a bit like a junkie that spat at me a few years ago on abbey street.

jubella · 15-10-2013 08:24PM

urabell wrote: »

So you're not really attracted which is fine, have you ever found yourself playing tonsil hockey with a girl of her type in a nightclub? I just don't understand why people hook up with someone they're not physically attracted to.

Alcohol.

Muise... · 15-10-2013 08:24PM

Deleted User wrote: »

We take all comers.

and goers, eh? Know what I mean, know what I mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gncBKNAqcds

urabell · 15-10-2013 08:25PM

Alter-Ego wrote: »

She looks a bit like a junkie that spat at me a few years ago on abbey street.

You can tell she is actually attractive though because people are getting away with taking shots at her, there's not a hope in hell some fat bird would be allowed to be torn apart like this

Femme_Fatale · 15-10-2013 08:25PM

miss no stars wrote: »

Put Cara Delevingne next to someone who's short, fat, has bad skin, a big forehead & chin, crooked nose, pokey eyes and a measly mouth and tell me there's no such thing as an objective standard for attractiveness.

Sure, people will have differences in who they're attracted to visually, but overall some people ARE more attractive than others. If no such difference really existed, people like Cara wouldn't be rolling in it.

I'd replace Cara D with Michelle Pfeiffer and then I'd agree with you 100%.

I can see how Cara's look wouldn't be deemed objectively beautiful. If she put on a bit of weight and got her eyebrows waxed I'd bet she'd have more admirers.

15-10-2013 08:25PM

Muise... wrote: »

and goers, eh? Know what I mean, know what I mean?

Say no more!

jaffusmax · 15-10-2013 08:29PM

You don`t look at the mantelpiece when you`re poking the fire!

Links234 · 15-10-2013 08:30PM

urabell wrote: »

there's not a hope in hell some fat bird would be allowed to be torn apart like this

:rolleyes:

SV · 15-10-2013 08:31PM

jaffusmax wrote: »

You don`t look at the mantelpiece when you`re poking the fire!

See, this quote is always thrown out there but I don't know any man who has sex with a woman and actually spends the time staring at her vagina during it.

miss no stars · 15-10-2013 08:34PM

Links234 wrote: »

:rolleyes:

It's true though

creep · 15-10-2013 08:34PM

I usually try the fit women first but that never ever works.:(:( I then drink more to heal the pain of rejection throughout the night and take home any yoke that will have me. I found Beer Goggles to be quite effective in turning horrid women into quite pleasurable looking women until the next morning. I usually set the alarm on my phone and say I have to go into work to get them away. The Uggos I pick up are quite clingy

My name is URL · 15-10-2013 08:35PM

miss no stars wrote: »

If your brother looks like this he could make a lot of money:

My granny could look like that if she was wearing that much makeup... and she's been dead for 8 years.

bnt · 15-10-2013 08:35PM

You do know that sociologists do research on this kind of stuff, right?

Example: Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in Judgements of Attractiveness

From the Abstract:

Using computer graphic techniques, opposite sex facial stimuli were generated from subjects’ photographs. Experiment 1 showed a correlation between attractiveness and similarity but the effect can be explained by the attractiveness of average faces. Beyond this, there was a trend for individual subjects to rate opposite sex images with a similar face shape to their own face as more attractive than other subjects. Experiment 2 allowed subjects to interactively manipulate an opposite sex facial image along a continuum from a self-similar shape, through an average face shape, to a face with opposite characteristics. No significant preferences for self-similar or opposite characteristics were found. Preferences for average faces are stronger than preferences for self-similar faces.

(emphasis added)

miss no stars · 15-10-2013 08:37PM

bnt wrote: »

You do know that sociologists do research on this kind of stuff, right?

Example: Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in Judgements of Attractiveness

From the Abstract:

(emphasis added)

Another point of note would be...

Preferences for average faces are stronger than preferences for self-similar faces.

So more people prefer an average face shape than a non-average face shape.

So people with average shaped faces are objectively found to be more attractive than people wit other face shapes (with similar features)

tim3000 · 15-10-2013 08:40PM

I wouldn't a particularly bad looking fella. But there are night where I have not exactly pulled a high standard of a girl. But sometimes you have to take what you get so to speak. That said I have yet to meet a hot girl with low enough standards for me ha

Professor Knowall · 15-10-2013 08:46PM

urabell wrote: »

Thank you for the honesty, that being said actual ugly people are as rare as hen's teeth, a few aesthetic improvements and an attitude change will sort most people out. We're all gonna make it it the end friend

Not in Donegal they aren't. Uglies are the rule not the exception. Something about in-breeding a couple of generations back.

deise08 · 15-10-2013 08:49PM

Personally I couldn't be with any one I wasn't attracted to. Be happy though if could get anyone to look in my direction ha ha

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