An unexpected, but pleasant, compliment.

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Cafeaulait
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21 Jan 2015, 6:42 am

Echolalia wrote:
Nice post. Yes I think this is true. I never understood why I got male attention even while I thought I was fat and butt ugly. I still don't think I was ever much attractive but then I often think of myself as being only slightly better than dirt anyway. Good reminder to get out of the usual AS headspace occassionally.


Lol. For me it is the other way around. I am pretty crtitical of myself but I know that I am a good looking female. Yet I rarely get male attention, aside from the usual street harrassment from thugs and construction workers. If it wasn't for online dating I wouldn't have ever had a boyfriend at 23.



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21 Jan 2015, 7:16 pm

goldfish21 wrote:
But the part I disagree with is that it shouldn't be done for the sake of attracting women. To me, that's BS. If it helps (and it does for most guys) then absolutely change your wardrobe to attract the type of woman you're attracted to. Theres a reason there's sayings like "the clothes make the man," and "dress for success," and "dress for the job you want, not the job you have."


But, the reason I said that one shouldn't change their wardrobe to attract women is because, frankly, there are more important things to worry about. "The clothes make the man" applies more to jobs and careers. If you're dressing just to attract women, instead of for yourself or your job/career, that indicates some serious internal problems. Low self-esteem being one of them......

goldfish21 wrote:
Also, you can't possibly know that no woman has ever found you attractive. You might not think you're attractive yourself, but you can't possibly know what others are thinking. Heck, just like the anecdote I started this thread with.. I don't personally think I'm mainstream fashion model sort of attractive, but this girl indicated that she thinks I am. Chances are there's someone out there that thinks you're better looking than you think you are.


Oh yeah, I could and would know. Why? I have scars and pockmarks all over my face and my jaw is misaligned. That alone will make sure that no woman will ever be attracted to me. Never mind my being lanky and thin, when pretty much 85% of women go for muscly dudes (the other 15% goes for fatties lol). You'd be surprised, my man.

Plus, I've never even had a woman smile at me other than my mom and best friend. (Don't get ideas about my best friend, since she not only doesn't think I'm physically attractive, she is taken)

Inb4 the comments from people saying "women hate you because of how you act on here." Trust and believe, I'm a different person offline than I am online. But I still point out stupid crap when I need to. Just not about double standards. 8)

There are plenty of dudes who will never be found attractive, so they either have to live with it, try to dress themselves up (the saying "you can't polish a turd" comes to mind, and is unfortunately true), or get plastic surgery. Me, I'm in the "live with it" camp myself. Women can feel lucky in that literally any of them in the world can be found attractive.