It’s hard to explain right. I guess I just meant that there are SOME men who will choose a girl who they don’t find that attractive (and alcohol was probably involved) and have sex with them, but they don’t think too highly of them otherwise. It’s probably actually more about the guy than it is the girl.
In my case, it probably does relate to the fact that I’ve met the guys in the wrong type of environment.
My depression is at its zenith these days, so I’m a 4. When I’m not so depressed, I’m probably more like a 5. When I was young and thin, I looked (so I was told) like either Laurie Anderson or Rickie Lee Jones.
I’m a solid 2.5, though I rounded it up to 3. When I’m wearing my tux, I clean up to about a 4 at best. When I was younger, I think I may have gotten up to 6 or so.
The one thing I’m grateful for is that my partner has horrible taste in men. He’s a 10 (not just my opinion), and is not ashamed to be seen with me.
Does it occur to you that some people have a preference for fat people? I’ve always been overweight, but not to the point of obesity, and my ex was always encouraging me to gain weight. He would point out guys who he finds attractive, and they were all heavier than I was. He himself was tall and thin, exactly my preference.
This goes for all genders and orientations as well.
Yes, that could occur to me. I am just isolating two men I know in particular, who literally keep ugly and/or fat chicks around for “emergency needs.”
But like I said, I know that’s only 2 men out of millions, though I suspect of those millions, many more than 2 do that.
I am incredibly good-looking.
I must be, seeing as I am utterly fascinating to babies (not babes, babies) I encounter in public. They can’t take their eyes off me. 
65 yrs old, hair is thinning, a little on the short side at 5’7" about 20# overweight but I still seem to do well with the ladies so I gave myself a 7 based on age appropriate women. I believe attitude strongly affects how we look, more so with men. I use my attitude to make up for looks.
I voted 7. Ladies have told me that they think I’m good looking, and it’s a large enough sample over time to be fairly accurate.
I rate myself a solid, middle-of-the-pack 5 (I’m a middle-aged man).
I did that only because I really have no idea how to rate my looks. I don’t think I’m particularly good-looking. I’m tall and very thin, and I have crooked teeth (should have had braces as a kid, but didn’t). And I have really, really long hair and wear very old-fashioned glasses. I don’t think I’m very good-looking at all. I think I’m probably a 3.
But there is a subset of women (not a big subset, but enough to notice) who think I’m good-looking. I can’t figure it out, but they exist. Enough so that I’ve noticed it over the years.
I have no idea what that means. It’s certainly true that the women with whom I’ve had relationships over the years are all kind of crazy, one way or another.
I’m all for self deprecation, but please, tell me no one calls themselves “ham planet”. Even avocado planet sounds a bit much.
You’re being unrealistic. You may need help. Frankly, I looked a lot like that, at your age. I probably would have given myself a 5, but oddly enough, a few very pretty women seemed to think I was cute.
I rated myself above average, though I was doing it based on my age. I’m 55, have all my hair, still lean, and that baby face I didn’t like as a youth worked out to be not so terrible later on.
Yes, thank goodness for goddesses with … unusual taste!
That said, my love life got a LOT better when I stopped looking for the flaws in beautiful women and started searching for the beauty in normal women. I got that clue from a guy on my dorm wing, probably smartest person I ever met. Most guys complained that there were no women to date. This guy had regular dates, though the other guys teased him about them (they weren’t movie stars). But I noticed that every one of his dates had something seriously interesting going for her. And genius didn’t spend the weekend alone. CLUE! It took a while for the lesson to sink in, and I wish I had those years back.
I gave myself a 5. I think I’m about a 2, and at times have been told I’m a 9 by others, so I did the math and rounded up.
Looking at old photos (really old photos), I see that I might have been a solid 9 then. Sad that at the time, I would have scored myself 1 or lower.
Um…what? 
I get jragon.
Please elaborate for jragon’s sake. I fear he may read this as, yes you are hideous.
I’m a 3. If I’m really trying, I can get up to a 5.
I was a 2 in 2009. Now I’m a 5, arguably a 6.
Losing 75 pounds will do that.
Huh? And why on earth would you give you an 1 and (without sarcasm) cover mirrors?
Then you have indeed a serious issue and should get some professional help IMHO. A couple posters said you are regular looking, but I would say you’re actually attractive. Your reaction to your own appearance is, really, really weird. You have the worst case of body issue I’ve ever seen.