Appearance Aristocracy

So it’s all about looks eh?
Of course it is. Just ask Darwin.
Only the wealthy can afford the time and money for personal upkeep. Plastic Surgery, botox, and the less extreme measures of the gym membership and a personal shopper.
Yes Americans are fatter. We have undergone a size inflation (or is it vanity sizing). I was shocked to learn, a few years (and pounds) ago, Gap makes a size 0. Women’s average size is now a 14. I can’t speak for men (not caring to do the research since when I tried “average men’s size” in google they wanted to tell me all about penis) but since I have watched all the men around me expanding, and the doctors now gauge your heart risks by your waist size, I’m gonna feel free to go with “it applies to you too buster”.
M & M's decided to expand your waistline too Yeah, yeah, yeah were all out of shape. Yet men still want the trophy wife.
Been there, done that.
Shut up Darwin. It has nothing to do with that. What? That thing without child bearing hips is gonna pop out a litter to immortalize you with. HA! Especially since we have proven that when a woman is “prime” she will quit looking for the rugged man and find the more effeminate features appealing. Take that Darwin.
“In one study,” according David M. Buss, the evolutionary psychologist who reported on the multi-generational study of mating preferences, “after groups of men looked at photographs of either highly attractive women or women of average attractiveness, they were asked to evaluate their commitment to their current romantic partner. Disturbingly, the men who had viewed pictures of attractive women thereafter judged their actual partners to be less attractive than did the men who had viewed analogous pictures of women who were average in attractiveness. Perhaps more important, the men who had viewed attractive women thereafter rated themselves as less committed, less satisfied, less serious, and less close to their actual partners.” In another study, men who viewed attractive nude centerfolds promptly rated themselves as less attracted to their own partners.
That’s it. BURN all the playboys. Oh, wait. That sounded feminist and I love Playboy’s taste in fiction writers.
Anyway it’s not really about the skin mag. It’s more about the perception of what others perceive as attractive. Even if a man doesn’t personally care much what a woman looks like, he knows that others do. Research suggests that being with an attractive woman raises a man’s status significantly. Well of course we do. Wait that sounded post feminist whatever who cares.

Economists Daniel S. Hamermesh, of the University of Texas, and Jeff E. Biddle, of Michigan State University, have produced a study suggesting that better-looking people make more money “plain people earn less than people of average looks, who earn less than the good-looking. The penalty for plainness is five to 10 percent, slightly larger than the premium for beauty.” Hamermesh and some Chinese researchers also looked into whether primping pays, based on a survey of Shanghai residents. They found that beauty raises women’s earnings (and, to a lesser extent, men’s), but that spending on clothing and cosmetics helps only a little. But that does not mean WEAR flipflops!!!! Maybe we could dress better. Maybe if we are so concerned with appearance we could quit buying into medical re-formation and just. Oh, I don’t know. Look better.
Instead we are a nation of fat, tube toped-wrinkled-distressed-tattered-flipflop wearing, hairplugged-fried-died and laid to the side looken motherfkrs. But damn that look of permanent surprise and poison packed expressionless face of yours looks great!