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Do good looking people have it easier
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I always get the feeling that if a person is good looking, they seem to have a better chance in life. They make friends more easily, they get jobs more easily, they get married more easily. It's a sad reflection on how superficial our society has become.
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Well yeah .. also studies have shown they're more likely to be given the kiss of life should they need it .. :yes:
Like, people think Brad Pitt is hot. Personally, I don't.
how much of life comes down to sex?
if you are attracted to someone you're naturally going to want to be around them.
so yeah! good looking people are probably offered a lot more opportunities in life for friendships, sex, marrage, jobs, etc etc etc than ugly or average looking people. but attractiveness is very subjective.
http://vbulletin.thesite.org.uk/showthread.php?t=98554
I don't think he is ugly. But then I don't find him attractive. Or even 'good' looking.
Yeah we do. What can ya do though eh
Truth. 'Specially the end bit about subjectiveness. Personally, I'd take either
Point proven.
I don't fancy Angelina Jolie. Apparently that means I'm asexual.
Aaaaanyway. I gave a serious answer in the thread my_name quite rightly pointed out. So nerr.
I think they key words here are BETTER CHANCE. I would agree that good looking people have a better chance in life for various reasons. However, this doesn't mean that average Joe can't have a cracking innings either. Your life is what you make of it - you can only ask for a fair crack and assuming you get that, then any whining and crying is totally unjustified in my view.
Being attractive isn't everything though. I am a middle thing. I have attractive and very social friends who regard me as similar, and I have friends who are not that popular. They don't have a problem with that tho. They make their own little home parties with their own circle of friends and I really enjoy myself as much in both peers.
It is always for how much you sell yourself. If you are not a real beau and you're introverted and shy, you will have a damn hard time to find someone to pull you out of your shell.
In conclusion: I know handsome boys and pretty girls who don't have many friends themselves and often sit at home and I got not-so-good looking friends who know half of vienna. You go around with them, and they shake hands with someone every 5 minutes.
Is there?
Everyone raves on about Gwen Stefani, but if she was doing a striptease in my back yard I'd close the curtains and turn the telly up.
I'm no oil painting but I have friends and a wife, and whilst I'm still a minion, I'm working for one of the top 100 firms to work for in the whole country.
If good looks are everything, why the hell are Mick Hucknall and Peter Stringfellow so successful with women?
Of course you'll never get anywhere if you spend all your time sat on your arse bellyaching about how only good looking people get good things in life. Why is it only whingey pathetic little boys that say that?
Being attractive will help you in life, but it also depends on one other attribute which does not get sufficient attention in this thread. What someone believes, or someone's mental frame of mind. There are many people on this site whom I consider to be extremely attractive, but when I tell them "I think you're gorgeous", they tend to blush and disagree with me. Quite a few women have told me they think I'm a very good-looking guy. It's all very flattering, though I wouldn't believe it personally. I think of myself as average-looking. Not an ugly man, but nothing special to look at either.
In a nutshell, looks shouldn't matter, but they do.
Personally, I find modesty a really attractive quality
hehe :thumb:
Perhaps, but doesn't the argument go that you're only successful financially if you're good looking? That you're only successful in the entertainment business if you're attractive?
Looks are not important. Having confidence in your own ability is. You don't get the girl by being a wallflower. It's rare that the biggest stud in a town is the man with the best looks.