Girls Like Boys Who Look Like Girls
Rob Long ·
May 1, 2011 at 11:50am
That, apparently, is the gist of recent studies from NYU and Princeton. From the Daily Mail (UK):
Two groups of men and women were shown a selection of thousands of computer-generated faces of the opposite sex to rate, which had been manipulated to look either more masculine or feminine
The computer model tested 50 dimensions of facial features, including nose size, plumpness of lips and facial colouring.
The scientists found that more men want women’s faces to have a feminine shape, while women want men’s faces to have a feminine shape, but darker skin.
All of this seems to explain Zac Efron. But it also says something odd about contemporary tastes.
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Jul '10
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Rob, have you ever noticed that celebrities tend to marry people who look like themselves? Consider, for instance, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.
Jul '10
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I've often thought that if women had any esthetic sensibility, they'd all be lesbians.
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Interesting. True, I think. It's the deep-seated narcissism of the profession, maybe? Ultimately, your one true love is....yourself.
Also: people end up looking like their dogs.
May '10
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But nothing explains Nicolas Cage.
Jul '10
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EJHill
But nothing explains Nicolas Cage. · May 1 at 12:03pm
Go to any Nicolas Cage movie and you will see a theater full of smitten bloodhounds.
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I am not sure that I trust this study. But the culture generally seems to have less appreciation than in the past for manliness. Compare the leading male actors of the 1940 and 1950s were those today. How else could one explain Leonardo DiCaprio?
May '10
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Leonardo DeCaprio is to Rudolph Valentino as George Clooney is to Clark Gable?
Jun '10
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Do women judge men by their face, primarily? I don't think so. I don't see a lot of evidence of that in real life. Maybe they do for the first five seconds, but not much after that.
Mar '11
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Girls like boys who look like girls. Women like men who look like men.
Except for cougars. They like boys who look like men.
Sep '10
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The male film stars of the 1940s and 50s were--for the most part--more classically masculine than today's. Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart come to mind.
I'll take a wild guess and conjecture that in times of real danger, like WW II, women prefer men who look strong. When times are mostly easy at home, they start to like pretty boys. Why? I have no idea. Like Kenneth, I can't see why they're attracted to any of us.
Apr '11
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Finally, an explanation for girls who like girls who look like guys who look like girls!
http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com/
Mar '11
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There hasn't been a decent actor working in Hollywood since William Holden died.
Jun '10
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Well, Superman has officially renounced his American citizenship, so how long will it be before they turn him into a metrosexual or, worse still, a flamer able to leap Fire Island at a single bound? He's already got tights and abs of steel, what's next eye-liner,ear rings, and a hand bag? Imagine how long you'd have to wait for metrosexual Superman to clear the phone booth, the hair gel alone would take fifteen minutes to dry, and that's with a 1900 watt blow drier. And don't get me started on strap-on utility belts, because that's a CofC buster for sure.
Dec '10
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As usual the fine folks at Cracked have the answer. Or if you have no sense of humor here is the paper describing how the prevalence of women on birth control has lead to a changing in standards of what females desire their ideal mate to look like.
Apr '11
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Judging solely by the fashion industry, men want women who look like eleven-year-old boys with breasts.
Oct '10
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Studies have contradicted themselves on this topic for years. The gist of the theory is that at times of peak fertility, females are more attracted to more masculine looking faces and at other times in their cycle they prefer feminized faces. This is because masculine features are an indirect indicator immune system health. During puberty, if a male is able to produce more testosterone, he was able to do so at the expense of suppressing his immune system since testosterone can contribute to immune suppression. If he was able to suppress his immune system and remain healthy, it speaks to his health and good genes. Also, this means that the male would be more desirable to mates and have more chances to procreate. This in turn supports the corollary. Men with feminized faces would have less opportunity to procreate and would invest more time and resources in the offspring produced (better long term partners). So context (one-night-stand vs. marriage) changes attractiveness too.
You'd have to check the post paper's protocol to see if in their analysis they account for these know confounding factors. If they didn't, then they may obfuscate validity of these claims.
Nov '10
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That would explain the popularity of pop singer phenoms Davy Jones (of the Monkees), David Cassidy, Todd Rundgren, Hanson, Jonas Brothers, etc.
There was a reason Paul was the favorite Beatle....
Oct '10
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I would argue that the fashion industry is not a good indicator of how men want women to look. You could claim that women dictate the fashion industry more than men. The issue sales for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and more immodest magazines would give you a better picture.
Jul '10
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I look like a girl?
Apr '11
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Casey Way
I would argue that the fashion industry is not a good indicator of how men want women to look. You could claim that women dictate the fashion industry more than men. The issue sales for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and more immodest magazines would give you a better picture. · May 1 at 4:20pm
And the models for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition also look like eleven-year-old boys with breasts. They have few curves below the bust and, aside from the breasts and long hair, are completely devoid of female secondary sex characteristics.