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01-25-2009, 01:45 AM | #4231 |
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Personality only gets you so far. It's a truth I've come to terms with. This is not why I'm making the changes I'm in the progress of making in my life. I'm hoping it's a perk, though.
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01-25-2009, 01:51 AM | #4233 | |
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01-25-2009, 02:05 AM | #4234 |
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I'd say it's not a simple cut-and-dried thing. If you're comfortable with who you are and how you look, then you'll be comfortable with someone else accepting you. And, on the other hand, it's not shallow, to me, if someone else feels the same way about my appearance that I do.
In any case, I never said looks are number 1. My only point is that it isn't shallow for looks to be on the list, whether it's 1, 2, 5 or 250. Looks are part of the package, and I do think, in a lot of cases, looks are a reflection of other facets. As in I look the way I do because of who I am; it's a result of underlying factors. As for 'no matter what their size', well...god no. There are limits, and I have no problem saying that. Let's say for the sake of argument that there's a 450-pound woman with the greatest personality in history. It's not going to change the fact that she's 450 pounds, and I don't ever want to see a 450-pound woman naked. End of story. And I have no problem at all if a 150 pound woman looks at me and thinks the exact same thing about a 250-pound guy. Lest we forget, a woman with a body carved by god herself could have the voice of a hag or the laugh of a hyena or the brain of a 40-pound rock. I don't think it's shallow for any of those things to be turnoffs either. |
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01-25-2009, 08:33 AM | #4237 | |
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01-25-2009, 08:44 AM | #4238 |
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While there's a hint of truth to what you say, it's mostly clueless.
Most people who would be worth having are enough worth having that they can be somewhat choosy about who has them. Some people are so worth having that they can be very choosy. If you're in a competition for someone who can be choosy, you need to compete on every front available. Looks are important because that's probably the most obvious factor that your choosy target will be able to detect. You can be a terrible parent or terrible at planning for retirement, but those things might not become obvious for quite some time. If you look terrible (not saying that luv is in this category), it's obvious from the get go. You've got to at least present yourself in a package that will get over the winnowing threshold of the choosy guy you're trying to land.
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01-25-2009, 10:35 AM | #4240 |
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