Maybe it’s just me, but when I get the Quiver Match emails that try to bamboozle me into viewing a ton of profiles to find the one needle in a haystack, I get so annoyed at the blatant bait and switch that I just rate every guy one star. Not necessarily because they are medium or unattractive but because the primary photo they use is, if you actually click through the rest, clearly misleading.I wonder if, in general, women just take the attractiveness ratings a lot less seriously.
a lot of the messages are creepy, rude, or from guys with low match scores who clearly didn’t read anything in my profile and are only contacting me because my “photos are hot.” The fact that I also don’t receive very many messages from men I personally find attractive doesn’t help, but even a hot guy who was totally my type sending a message snottily insulting my profile (”you seem like a bitch, but I thought I would try anyway” is an actual quote from a message I’ve received.Really? Some guy thought "you seem like a bitch" was a good opening line?
Women tend to post better photos and put more care into their appearance in general. I doubt there are more than a handful of photos on the site of women in terrible lighting, wearing no makeup, with their hair in a rat’s nest (or with a baseball hat hastily shoved over it to attempt to disguise the fact that it’s unwashed/unbrushed/missing), wearing their dumpiest, sloppiest around-the-house clothes, but there are TONS of photos of men in a similar state on the site. A lot of guys seem to be under the impression that, since women are supposedly less visual and care less about looks, they should make no effort whatsoever to make themselves look more appealing to the opposite sex.The two highest rated guys look like they had professional, flattering photographs. Sure they are too emo for me, but I can see the appeal. The 4 less-than-medium guys all made much less effort. I'm guessing #4 snapped a picture of himself at work, #1 snipped himself out of a group shot after some serious drinking, #3 is just goofy looking with his casual boy clothes, and #2 would probably be all right if his eyes didn't look like two black holes of doom.
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Uhhh.... no. The most salient possibility is that women make a decision about whether or not to message a guy based on more than just their rating of his appearance. Based on the offset of the curves, appearance does play a statistically-significant part, but it is not the primary factor.
posted by muddgirl at 2:34 PM on November 24, 2009 [2 favorites]