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Science Says: Hot Guys Are A-Holes
Daily Beast ^ | February 12, 2015 | Charlotte Lytton

Posted on 02/13/2015 6:11:14 AM PST by C19fan

New research has discovered that attractive men are more selfish than their less aesthetically gifted peers, putting a firm end to our dreams of finding an altruistic Adonis.

Psychologists at Brunel University in London measured the bodies of 125 men and women using a 3D scanner, calculating traditionally attractive traits such as slimness and waist-to-hip ratio (for the latter group). They then completed a personality test, which assessed their attitudes to selfishness and inequality, before partaking in a money-based economics experiment, designed to challenge their beliefs on having and sharing wealth.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alpha; dating
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To: IronJack

So, how much money was spent to confirm that attractive guys aren’t desperate enough to have to put with the antics of unattractive women such as the author, and are therefore “selfish” as defined in the Feminist Lexicon?


21 posted on 02/13/2015 6:53:18 AM PST by mikeus_maximus
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To: C19fan

I am not.


22 posted on 02/13/2015 6:56:41 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Beagle8U
What do you expect from a study conducted by feminist "women"?


23 posted on 02/13/2015 6:59:45 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: C19fan

Ladies, if there was no demand, there’d be no supply.


24 posted on 02/13/2015 7:02:04 AM PST by null and void (Our goal is language that is gender-, ethnic- and age-neutral, while celebrating our diversity!)
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To: Ouderkirk

Well, I was going to defend her (she’s not *that* bad looking)...

... Until I read the rest of the article.


25 posted on 02/13/2015 7:09:50 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: mikeus_maximus
Men are much more visually oriented than women when selecting a mate. I believe that's been borne out by similar studies in the past, and it certainly meshes with my anecdotal observations. I've seen gorgeous women with some of the dorkiest guys imaginable, but seldom is a hunk guy hanging around a beastly gal.

Maybe that's to womens' credit, maybe it isn't. But if that means uglier women get less male attention or only attention from undesirable males, I guess that's just something the less-attractive women will have to deal with.

And I suspect that's why a lot of them become "feminists" to begin with: because secretly they hate men for not liking them. And to think we're formulating policy based on that puerile jealousy ...

26 posted on 02/13/2015 7:43:32 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Right Brother
How many studies have you seen that cast women in any negative light?

About the same number as are critical of blacks or queers or any of the other "special" groups beloved of the marxists.

27 posted on 02/13/2015 7:44:41 AM PST by IronJack
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To: C19fan

No one needs a study to confirm this but I can tell you most Hot Women are a word that in polite company refers to female dog...


28 posted on 02/13/2015 7:45:28 AM PST by BBell (breathe easy obey the law)
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To: C19fan

I knew there had to be a reason no one can stand me.


29 posted on 02/13/2015 7:48:15 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: C19fan

Everything I’ve heard about the actor Paul Newman says that he was a nice guy and a loyal husband.


30 posted on 02/13/2015 7:52:47 AM PST by Signalman
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To: C19fan

” a perhaps unprecedented development was among the women involved, who were found to be no more selfish than average- lookers.”

That doesn’t match what I’ve seen in 56 years of being around people. “High Maintenance” wasn’t a term developed to describe men...


31 posted on 02/13/2015 8:07:00 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: cuban leaf

LOL In school, I always knew I was the girl all the guys wanted...for a lab partner.


32 posted on 02/13/2015 8:22:54 AM PST by NorthstarMom (My)
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To: JudyinCanada
"Then there’s the skinny, jug-eared, pompous a-holes who THINK they’re attractive but they’re aren’t....POTUS."

Very true.

Also not helping are the legions of leftist females with pathetically low standards, who reinforce the shriveled-up, purple-lipped pencil-neck's delusions of hotness.

33 posted on 02/13/2015 8:45:57 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: C19fan
When I first glanced at the title I thought it read "Hot Gays Are A-Holes" ... which science likely also confirms ...
34 posted on 02/13/2015 8:48:53 AM PST by glennaro
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To: C19fan; Travis McGee; CatherineofAragon; Black Agnes; dixiechick2000; Pelham

I don’t buy that

My running buddy and worldwide business partner from 8th grade till mid 40s was movie star good looking

Charming and erudite and high end old family Southern...he knew the directions to the Sub Debs

A young Daniel Day Lewis sort with very blue eyes a bit over mommied and vulnerable but something of an adventurer outlaw

Women being dogs much like men when it comes down to it...would throw themselves at him.....all over the world from hotel maids and beach girls to chinny career gals to posh jet setter sorts who always fly forward cabin or private

In London once one of the best looking women I ever saw was eye banging him from across the bar..I think it was Tramps..being clever he goes up to the bar to order....20 seconds and she’s sitting next to him chatting him up

Which all leads eventually to getting drunk with and playing gin rummy with Keith Richards and a long term relationship with said woman

He reeled them in and it wasn’t so bad for me as a solid 6.5 cause they always had friends.....ultra beautiful women flock together cause normal girls are mean to them but that’s another thread

Anyhow he was very kind and loyal and was a decent consort to these women and might have married a couple of them

Very generous and fearless...sure stood by me when bullets real or metaphorically were flying

His Achilles heel was demon rum.....Crown to be precise

Alcohol has brought down as many men as any bad temptress


35 posted on 02/13/2015 9:12:44 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: NorthstarMom

Wellll; I am pretty sure that NorthstarDad figured out the fact that a good lab partner would also make a good life partner.


36 posted on 02/13/2015 9:13:20 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: C19fan
"personality test, which assessed their attitudes to selfishness and inequality, before partaking in a money- based economics experiment designed to challenge their beliefs on having and sharing wealth."

So...hot guys are less likely to be Socialists?
That's a good thing ;-)

37 posted on 02/13/2015 9:41:37 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: 5th MEB

:)


38 posted on 02/13/2015 9:52:34 AM PST by NorthstarMom (My)
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To: wardaddy

Agreed.

Nor does unattractiveness tend to make ugly men eligible for sainthood.


39 posted on 02/13/2015 9:59:50 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: IronJack

It is true that men are visual creatures.

However, There is visual for fornicating, and then there is procreating and the two may not be synonymous.

From experience, the ones who are appealing for fornicating are not the ones you would like to be the mother of your progeny.


40 posted on 02/13/2015 10:46:10 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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