No, you’re actually right - people are really good at picking out personality flaws on this forum, md01 also figured correctly that I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I have had a lot of bad experiences with women and I do hold some resentment towards them as a whole. One thing I hate most is that feminism today seems to have become a fight for the rights of women to the detriment of the rights of men rather than a fight for equality.
The whole thing recently about divorce favouring women hit a raw nerve too.
I wish that were true. I gave my mum £50 yesterday ;). I think you mean if I’m shallow then girls will be shallow in return. I don’t think that’s the case specifically but probably in general. Like, women know guys are shallow so they try to make themselves look good. But that just makes guys more shallow because they judge women based on the competition they themselves enter. It’s a vicious circle really.
I think people just express it more freely in successive generations. It’s a bit like saying there are more homosexuals now than ever before. I think, although people don’t like to admit it, we are all shallow. For example, when advertisers for 3rd world countries try to get people to send money, do they pick the fat, ugly kids? No, they pick the sweet, cute kid that makes people go aaawww. When advertisers make underwear ads, do they pick cellulite laden heifers? No, because women don’t want to think that’s how they’ll look and men don’t want to see women looking like that.
It’s been the same for all generations. Think of the Roman times, do you think that the ugly girls made it as concubines? Doubt it, they would be make to cook and clean while the attractive ones pleasured the emperors.
How true. Sometimes I wish I’d never been born. %|
But I have and it’s gotten me nowhere. I have always been a really honest, kind person who looks for personality more than looks and maybe I’ve just been unlucky but IMO girls do not look on the inside despite what they say. I suppose you could say that I shouldn’t go after those girls then. But they’re the girls that I feel ill over. The ones I want to grab hold off. Girls whom I’ve known that are nice are ok to hang out with but I have no strong feelings for them because they don’t produce any physical attraction.
I know it’s just one example and I’ve mentioned it before but in the TV show Average Joe, the beauty queen who had to date loads of average looking people and pick between them, was then given some handsome guys thrown in near the end. Now, she had built up a relationship with a guy called Adam who had a great sense of humour, was honest and kind but was of course average looking.
One of the pretty boys who remained (I think he was called Jason) she had known for about 3 weeks and guess who she picked. Yup Jason. Ok, I’m not going to base my opinions solely on a TV show but in my own experience, it is indicative of society as a whole:
It’s for the reason that I see so many shallow self-absorbed pricks doing so well in life that I think what the hell is the point in being a nice person? Ok, you get respect, you make nice friends but I want to get laid, well and often.
I heard in another post I made about finding work etc. that I have to believe in and sell myself. Likewise in relationships. It’s totally true, you have to convince people that you are worth being with irrespective of who you truly are. Have you ever read the famous book “How to win friends and influence people”? I can assure you it doesn’t say just be yourself.
So what do I do - try and convince people that I’m a good person or just be a good person. I’ve done the latter and I’ve had zero success. What I have done as a test is the former and it does work but it’s false. I want people to like me for who I am. You may say that is hypocritical based on this thread but this thread was never intended to be about judging people on looks, it’s about people lying about who they truly are.
Thanks :). I don’t think I’ll ever find happiness though, whether I act shallow or not. Stepford Wives don’t exist.