Dating site: No ugly people

[markolas]

I'm still confused as to how I apparently "look straight," and whether or not that's a good thing.

[vivfox]

In retrospect of what I wrote earlier I want you to know it hurts to be so revealing about oneself. It's like opening an old wound and allowing you to throw salt in it. However, the reason I did so is for the person or people who feel the exact same way I do to know they are not alone in their fears. We are all part of the Fleetwood Mac family and it is through our writings we come to know and understand each other. Hopefully my writing can act as a healer for somebody else's sorrow.

With love, Viv

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I hate to admit this, but if I had to choose between 1) being exceptionally physically attractive AND stupid, or 2) being exceptionally brilliant intellectually AND hideous (by most objective criteria), I would choose to be pretty and stupid. Sure, being intellectually superior is a great, admirable thing. But at the end of the day, who has the easier/happier life? The person with the looks usually wins in the end.

You mean like MARILYN MONROE? and that's just one example.
Beauty can be a terrible curse,How silly to make such a statement,beauty is only perceived.What one finds attractive,another may not.There are no rules,nor right or wrong.
But this thread is bad news,Americans are notoriously shallow (particularly New Yorkers ha!) so I best run..i'm not up for arguing on it

[David]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I hate to admit this, but if I had to choose between 1) being exceptionally physically attractive AND stupid, or 2) being exceptionally brilliant intellectually AND hideous (by most objective criteria), I would choose to be pretty and stupid. Sure, being intellectually superior is a great, admirable thing. But at the end of the day, who has the easier/happier life? The person with the looks usually wins in the end. I would rather be adored/worshipped and oblivious to my own stupidity than being acutely self-aware and shunned/ridiculed by people who are beneath me mentally. It's sad but true.

UNLESS ... unless you have the intellect of, say, Sherlock Holmes. Now THAT would rock, regardless of what you looked like. Imagine you could solve all the unsolvable crimes in Los Angeles. Imagine all the detectives running to YOU to help them. What sweet joy to have a brain so adept at induction!

I'd also like to add that we're all ultimately beautiful--when we behave kindly and generously. It's only our deeds that turn our faces into putrid piles of poopoo. The Witch of the North was right: Only bad witches are ugly.

[fringed n fab]

Seems like a stupid site. There are always plenty of us who feel or see something else attractive in/about someone that others do not. I once worked with a fairly attractive, decently built girl who only found overly obese men attractive and admiring. It's always to each their own I guess. I think we all are different in what we find attractive in someone. I'd never join such a site anyway even though I don't think I'm ugly. If anything, I'm just Me.

[Macfanforever]

I won't make the site.

[fringed n fab]

If you think about it, pretty people don't usually work out after awhile anyway because both end up so full of themselves so sit back and let those kinds have their fun for a minute.

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Gay men are so shallow(myself included) that we know if another guy ain't a hottie there is very little interest in pursuing him. Rant over.

Interesting though that I used to work with a guy who was about sixty and hunchback and probably would generally be regarded as not an attractive man (and oh god he smelled bad too) but one day he came in to work and introduced me to his boyfriend, a young guy in his twenties. So I guess there is someone for everyone somewhere.

[fringed n fab]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Interesting though that I used to work with a guy who was about sixty and hunchback and probably would generally be regarded as not an attractive man (and oh god he smelled bad too) but one day he came in to work and introduced me to his boyfriend, a young guy in his twenties. So I guess there is someone for everyone somewhere.

It seems that way.

I don't think I look for a beautiful person physically, maybe just attractive in ways that others might not look twice about someone. Sometimes I just want a nice handsome man.




Other times I find the no muss no fuss low maintenance ones attractive, ones who are sexy without even trying to be. It just depends. As a side note, who knew Wranglers could look so good? Even the guy on tv must think so.

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by Bryan

You mean like MARILYN MONROE? and that's just one example.
Beauty can be a terrible curse,How silly to make such a statement,beauty is only perceived.What one finds attractive,another may not.There are no rules,nor right or wrong.
But this thread is bad news,Americans are notoriously shallow (particularly New Yorkers ha!) so I best run..i'm not up for arguing on it

Oh, yes, beauty is such a terrible curse. Really? Ask a physically unattractive person whether beauty is a curse. It's so charitable for people to go around saying that "beauty is on the inside" and "beauty fades," etc. when the reality is that everyone, and I mean everyone has physical standards. If you truly believe there is anyone out there who is absolutely 100% oblivious to physical attractiveness, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

And really, how did America suddenly corner the market on shallowness? The countries with the highest number of plastic surgery procedures per capita in the world are in far east Asia (South Korea is #1), followed by a number of South American countries.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Interesting though that I used to work with a guy who was about sixty and hunchback and probably would generally be regarded as not an attractive man (and oh god he smelled bad too) but one day he came in to work and introduced me to his boyfriend, a young guy in his twenties. So I guess there is someone for everyone somewhere.

$$Money makes the world go round$$

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by David

Imagine you could solve all the unsolvable crimes in Los Angeles. .

There are only 2 that I'd like to be "the guy who solved it".

1) The case of the Black Dahlia.

2) Who REALLY shot RFK at the Ambassador Hotel in '68.

[WildHearted]

I don't believe beauty is a curse but I also don't think it's the answer to all problems or anything.

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

If you truly believe there is anyone out there who is absolutely 100% oblivious to physical attractiveness, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

The blind.

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by vivfox

$$Money makes the world go round$$

I always looked forward to being a dirty old man... until I realized (too late) that I'd be a poor, dirty old man.