[Prophet in the wilderness]

Irregardless of what the feminist and women tell you, and their denial thereof,
They want" GOOD LOOKS " and " MONEY" .
And this conclusion was not made by my own observation ( it just confirms what I already knew ).
I got this from many women who told me personally ( or confided in telling me so, about women ) what women are looking for.
This is not what a man or men have told me, or by my own conclusion, this is what many women have told me through out the years I have known them.
Yes, I have gotten in the " FRIEND " category with women, and so, it didn't matter what I said to them, or asked them, you can learn a lot about women just by being their friend.
Some women that have told me this were very frank about it, or had no qualms of admitting this to me.
As for me, I am trusting in that GOD will send the right woman my way, I am not going to trust in " WORLDY WISDOM " and the " NEW TECHNIQUE " or the next self help book, because, like some have said here on this thread , it's just marketing.
My trust is in GOD, and if GOD wants me to have a woman in my life, so be it.

[HitmanLV]

Yep, I was one of the first on the thread (maybe the first) to mention it was marketing.

That being said, the ideas of 'good looks' and 'money' are certainly very attractive to women, but that doesn't really tell us very much.

First: money. It's just a symbol of security and safety. Women are drawn to that - that's normal and natural. A man need not be a multimillionaire to offer a woman that feeling of security. Money isn't as big a deal as men think, except at the extremes:

a. an abnormal amount of money is appealing but often women courted by these men get antsy feeling he may be trying to 'buy her.' [Still, better to be loaded than not!]

b. an abnormal lack of money could be devastating to a man's sex appeal - a guy in his 40s living in his parents basement and who can't hold a job doesn't give women a feeling of security.

Almost everything in between really is fine.

As far as looks go, women are far more particular in their tastes than men. While there is certainly a broad, common standard of what women find as handsome (though not nearly as broad and common a standard that men share for what we consider a hot woman), the truth is that as a woman emotionally and physically bond with a man, his features become more handsome to her. He becomes very handsome to her, even if his looks are fairly removed from the general impression of handsome.

As I said in an earlier post, following up on my friends tortoise's and Mr. Jeeves excellent observations, the wide majority of men are good looking enough for the vast majority of women (even the vast majority of incredibly good looking women), provided they make a minor effort to be well dressed, well groomed, etc.

The truth is, you can look at a gorgeous woman out on a date with a devastatingly handsome man, well built, tall, expensive clothes and a fancy car, and the truth is just by looking at them we really have no idea how fulfilled in the relationship she is.

One guy on this thread thought that some of this discussion would lead to a slutty bride who gets pregnant by the pool boy. Regardless of his odd fixation, women in that position are what I am talking about - regardless of the socially accepted trappings of success and happiness, they are unfulfilled.

The sad part is that their men could go a long way to fulfilling them emotionally and physically if they were just attentive to a few little things.

Overstating the significance of good looks and money isn't helpful. When you understand it, it makes sense and you can learn from it. When it's used as an excuse for consistent failure on the part of average looking and average income men, then it's a needlessly limiting belief.