I just saw such a couple-movie star looking boy, accompanied by hag-like girlfriend. So, thought I’d catagorize the possibilities:
-girl’s father is a JILLIONAIRE, big $ job for future son-in-law?
-girl is rich (inheritance)
-true love
Were you sure that they were a couple? Were they holding hands or publicly displaying affection?
Define ‘hag-like’, please.
Sheesh, you missed the most obvious.
Boy is horny, girl is easy.
Gee, maybe there might be more to attraction than just physical appearance? :rolleyes:
Nope, not really.
D_Odds looks in mirror
I’d like to rescind my previous statement.
I sometimes wonder about the same thing but think anything of it when it’s the other way around. What’s up with that?
Hehe. Yeah.
You know, I regularly see really mismatched (physically) couples. Heck, a few of my exes moved on to some pretty scary lookin’ wimmen (and I’m not just being a bitter ex here. I thought I was being just a bitch, but random people were coming up to me saying, “Um, have you seen who [Ex] is dating? Who beat HER with an ugly stick?”). One ex even married one of the girls- a girl who also is less than advanced on the intelligence scale.
So, although the bitchy ex girlfriend side of me wants to go, “Oh. Mah. GAWD! haha! He married someone ugly AND stupid! HA!” I just force myself to stop and realize that she probably is a wonderful person and has a personality filled with qualities that more than make up for her short comings in other areas.
And you know, it’s probably the same with those very mismatched couples.
He is gay, she’s his beard.
She’s blackmailing him?
She paid him to be see in public with her, because her horrible, horrible features would normally cause the average male to run off screaming, crops to wither, liverstock to die, and women grow barren?
They’re childhood sweethearts who knew each other in their “ugly duckling” phase, but he grow out of it and she didn’t?
She fucks like a beast and is a wonderful cook?
He’s a complete bastard and her self-esteem is so low, she figures he’s the best she’s going to get?
eh … that’s all I got.
I had a friend once who, were I the sort to generally take notice of such things, could probably be described as decent looking. His live-in girlfriend though I would most accurately describe as frumpy. Not just physically, her personality, tone of voice, even mode of dress were unwaveringly frumpy. He was also pretty skinny while she had a fair bit of heft. Physical traits I can certainly overlook if the personality and sense of humour and such are there, but I just couldn’t find anything in her that wasn’t made of frump. She was a perfectly nice person, of course, we all got on just fine, it was just a pretty mismatched set from where I sat. At one point though, he acknowledged this fact and further confided in me the reason he stayed with her: Wild screeching monkey sex. And that pretty much answered that.
How about “he doesn’t think she’s ugly.”
I’m constantly amazed at what other people think is beautiful and ugly. I’ve pointed out gorgeous women to Mr. Athena and he goes “meh.” He’s done the same to me with men.
It even works with celebraties. There are people out there who think Sarah Jessica Parker is cute! And I’ve known more than one guy who thinks Julia Roberts is dog-ugly.
She could be a successful business woman in her own right, without living off Daddy’s money.
Superficial reasons aside, I agree that beauty is extremely subjective and only one element to finding someone attractive. Obviosuly he isn’t revolted by her but she may have an amazing personality that lights up her features.
The real question is, does he have a brother? 
That’s what I figure people think when I hang out with Licentious Ectomorph. 
Gee, maybe ralph said so in the OP??
Think of all of the infinite reasons why any two people might be together, and they all could apply in this situation.
… and so, I don’t really think there’s a ‘take’ to be had, based on “one person is better looking than the other, what gives?”
Add to the list of possibilities:
He’s in the country on a student or work visa and is looking for a citizen who’ll marry him so he can become a citizen as well.
He’s an android she built.
I need a better definition of ‘hag-like.’
Living in military towns, I regularly see young couples who look somewhat mismatched. They got married young, when both of them were young and cute. Then she popped out a couple of kids and gained 10 or 20 pounds with each one. Taking care of two little ones, she doesn’t have the time or energy to keep on top of her looks and so she gets pretty frumpy looking. Meanwhile, the Navy or Marine Corps is ensuring that he maintains his youthful figure. Plus, men don’t ‘frump’ as easily as women – jeans and a teeshirt look fine on a young, fit man and he doesn’t have to worry about makeup or eyebrow tweezing or hairdos.
Quite often, once the kids get a little older and she has more time on her hands (and a bit more disposable income), the wife’ll start to ‘red up’ a bit. Not uncommonly, this is about the same time as hubby stats hugging a desk and losing his hair… And they level out again.