Most were delusional to an astonishing degree. This woman thinks 50 year olds are still beautiful:
Only one of the women was realistic:
Yes, of course, in my heart of hearts I know that there is a beauty to be found in age, wisdom and self-confidence. It's just like many of the women who think, aged 28, they've lost their looks, I'm just not entirely sure I'd choose that sort of beauty over the beauty that lies in being 18.
What is beauty? Lots of evolutionary stuff - waist hip ratios and the like. Yawn. Or how about the Burkean philosophy of the sublime and the beautiful? The beautiful is homely, earthy, like a well kept garden or gentle stream. Anthropomorphically, this would be your 7-9's: cute, everything in its right place, dainty little smile, dimples etc. Like an adored pet.
The Beautiful:
Awwww... the kind of girl your parents would like, and other areas respond to as well. The 'homecoming', if you will.
The sublime is the 10. Ethereal, otherworldly, even slightly inhuman: like Andromeda in infrared or an alpine peak. It boggles the mind, and is a little frightening too. The Sublime:
The 10 might have a weird personality. In Magic Bullets Savoy explains:
From an early age, they learn the rules don't apply to them. Men will give them access to high-status social events, money, and excitement most women their age never get... they find themselves irrationally hated by other women... treated as objects... Unless they have strong personalities or strong family and peer netwoorks, many extremely attractive women end up a little bit loopy.
Do the same dynamics play out with age? Maybe not. Women take a while to recalibrate their attractiveness level to any new environment, as the delusional Daily Mail women demonstrate.
But overall, women usually underrate their own OBJECTIVE beauty: Women and teens are relatively modest when it comes to assessing their own beauty. On average, women and teens rated themselves as a 6.1 on a scale from 1 to 10, (10 being most beautiful.)
Age and beauty. I think beauty peaks age 17-22. These are the girls I am most physically attracted to. A higher ratio of both the sublime and the beautiful in this group. In fact, most girls this age are 'beautiful' to some degree - their natural girliness and skin makes them so. And the sublime is mostly found around here as well. Those Alpine Peaks!
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Women and teens are relatively modest when it comes to assessing their own beauty. On average, women and teens rated themselves as a 6.1 on a scale from 1 to 10
On AVERAGE, they should be 5.0. Hence being relatively modest means only being 22% higher than reality.
Ok I should have qualified - that should have been a lot higher given what we know about human nature (eg 90% of people say they're above average in intelligence).
Yeah, that's a good point.
I like the beautiful (7-9) girl. Is she your girlfriend?
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