Here’s a weird thing about people. Most of us are not 9’s or 10’s or even 1’s or 2’s — for those of us who adhere to these juvenile, nonsensical indices. Most of us are somewhere in the middle, roughly,
Yet people get together and make more people, and even love each into old age when they look wrinkled and often grotesque.
Lincoln famously said, “The good lord must have loved the common-LOOKING people, since he made so many of them.” The “looking” part is commonly omitted from the “common” quote.
During one of his 1858 debates with Steven Douglas, Lincoln, whom Douglas had accused of being two-faced, responded with his customary wit: “If I had another face, do you think I’d be wearing this one?”
I think what you and Southern Hybrid are confused about is stuff you are projecting onto what he's saying.
He's not talking about human worth. He's not saying that we should care about looks. He's acknowleging that its a thing and that it affects us. Pretending that it doesn't isn't helping. Its like denying racism exists because we don't like racism. It doesn't help.
FYI, women are rarely attracted to bodybuilders.
Indeed, one thing women hate are muscles. That is why women only try to pick guys up at ComicCons.
I think the question to ask, assuming "women are rarely attracted to bodybuilders" is accurate, is why they are not. It most likely isn't looks that are the issue, which is apparently what you are thinking it is about.
Of course, "looks matter". What the response generally is, is that "looks aren't all that matters". Charisma, attitude, empathy are going to come into play, much like apathy, narcissism, and vanity can as well.
That's not why they do it. They are vain. But its not about attracting the opposite gender for sex or love. It has the opposite effect.
You almost appear to grasp it in the thread. It wouldn't be looks that are the problem, but the vanity.
