The rating system is a “shorthand” for what our minds do anyway.
We are always evaluating other people even if we are not consciously thinking about it.
There were periods in my life where I was a “creep” in women’s eyes and other periods in my life where I was considered “hot”.
The manosphere taught me that it was a choice—if I made the effort I got the rewards—no short-cuts.
(The funniest thing they did not teach me is that once you become “hot” you have to run away from lower SMV women—they will make total fools of themselves to try to get your attention.)
True!
I am already so old that I probably shouldn't even be participating in a discussion about 0-10 rating systems.
Again, I am happily married - but if, through some cataclysm, I were to be again "thrown" into the dating market (assuming I even wanted to date), I think that I would be at once both extremely "pickier" and "less judgemental."
When I was twenty, an unsightly mole on the face would have been an instant "knock-out" criterion. Smoking would have been given a "pass."
Regards,