I chose a 7 in the poll based on a mental image that I had of myself that is outdated by roughly 15 years. I just looked in the mirror and saw a 6 staring back at me. :eek:
Time is a bitch.
I put myself as a 4, based on my conspicuous lack of success with the ladies. 
I’m not sure I trust that article. Isn’t the entire ‘beauty’ industry built on making people feel inadequate and ugly, so that they can be sold products that will correct their deficiencies?
Besides, the linked page links to an article about the Japanese eyeball-licking fad, which was shown to be a hoax.
I didn’t realize you were using flat tummy and six pack interchangeably.
Ha, I’ve gotten the comparison before. She could take me in a fight, though. If she were real.
I’m calling a 5 someone whose looks don’t stand out as good or bad. Not ugly, not cute, and would probably blend in with the other dudes and dudettes around.
I have definitely felt this way over the years, and still don’t spend much time looking in the mirror, but overall it will get better. But please don’t be afraid to ask for help if it really gets you down or ever keeps you from functioning.
Nice drawing style. 
Oh dammit…it’s a hoax? Well now I feel like a fool. Guess my eyeball licking days are over.
I don’t think they keep them around because they’re fat. They keep them around because the women are willing to have sex with them. Perhaps these women have low self esteem, or they just like hooking up with these guys, and perhaps their fatness plays a role in their not being able to get other guys.
Worst “ever” may be a stretch here. Anorexics starve themselves to death!
I must say that I too am baffled by Jragon’s viewpoint–perhaps it’s a similar disorder to anorexia.
Why don’t you have an option for “most unique”? Unique can be really, really hot, ya know. Anyhoo, in the absence of that option, I gave me a 10. 
No, really, I firmly believe that beauty lies in beholder – although the beholder sometimes need a punch in the eye to make him see it. 
Same here.
Perhaps we would be rated by others even higher. I don’t much care for looking in the mirror, and I actually avoid it, really. Nothing wrong with a decent sense of humility in these matters.
I’m maybe a 6. when I was younger I was probably a 7-8 though. I have broad shoulders and when I was thinner my shoulder/waist ratio was 0.71, it is now about 0.80. Plus my face looked better back then, so I’ve been told. darn.
I’m a definite 2, but only on a very good day and I don’t have many of those. That’s also why you won’t find a pic of me in the gallery, I don’t like having photos taken and I hate having to see them.
I’m a man, gave myself a 10. I have a masculine jaw, grey/blue eyes, almost black hair, thick lips. I’m 6’1’’, 160lbs, and you could wash clothes on my stomach. Despite all of this I was in complete denial until my mid 20’s. I have no idea why, but I thought I was pug fugly.
Given that I’ve always occasionally received favorable comments about my looks / hair / eyes / smile / physique or had women approach me in a social setting, but yet not so much that I’m ready to go take headshots for my male modeling career, I’d put myself in the 6-7 range. Which is still pretty good IMHO. 8-10 I reserve for more “geometrically perfect features” types. Plus I could stand to lose about ten pounds.
On the plus side, my hair guy uses photos of Bradley Cooper as a reference when cutting my hair.
I don’t know that it’s really necessary for me to be much better looking than I am. Unless I was going to go into some field that required superior good looks, “not ugly” and a decent enough personality is usually sufficient.
Wouldn’t mind being a bit taller though.
I’m not sure I trust it either. If it were really true, there wouldn’t be anorexics or bulimics or other people with body dysmorphia.
Plus I think people tend to pick apart their own looks more than other people would.
Well yeah. Lana has Krav Maga training, plus she has those Truckasaurus hands.
I’ll say 7. I’ve gotten positive feedback on looks most of my life and people seem to want to date me now and again. I am 6-2 180 which I am happy with. Decent face and in good shape.
Yes, that is what I meant.
Hmm fair point, neither did I 
I just had a mental image of myself with a non-tummy like this. I don’t want to look like that. My tummy is fine as it is: it doesn’t stick out or anything, it’s not a potbelly, it isn’t too fat, but it doesn’t look like that either. Six pack or not, it’s not really the issue.
I’d honestly never given it all that much thought. I just have the vague idea that the beauty ideal is to look like that picture, and I don’t want that. I like me. Keira Knightly can look any way she likes, I hope she feels happy. I don’t mean to judge people who are happy looking like that, or who might just naturally look like that.
I don’t think so. I’m 90%+ sure we went out once in summer of 2003 and you were cute then and I’m willing to be you’re still very cute now.
I’m a 5 or 6…I gave myself the 6. 
I’m 41, fat, and I don’t like my teeth, but I’m cute, I have big boobs, I look younger than I am, and people/men seem to like me. Oh, and I’m a singer (a good one), which adds at least a point. I don’t get hit on like I used to – I’ve always been overweight, but I think I recently crossed some kind of “less acceptable” line – but I still get attention, and several of the guys I’ve dated have been way out of my league. (I know, I know: if I dated them then they clearly weren’t out of my league, but they were!)
I’m more attractive in person than I am in pictures, but FWIW there’s a two-year-old photo of me in both the gallery and my profile (I was all dressed up for a benefit; BTW, the partial head belongs to Licentious Ectomorph if anyone remembers him!). Plus, here are a few that were just taken on Saturday (I’m in the Miami Ink t-shirt).
You realize this post cost you a point or two, right?
Being fat does equate to being ugly, in the eyes of many.
“Fat acceptance” bothers me because a lot of people take it way too far: yes, you need to love yourself no matter what you look like, but there’s a difference between that and thinking there is nothing wrong with being fat. Loving yourself doesn’t mean believing that you’re perfect. I’m perfectly able to love myself while acknowledging that there is room for improvement.
Au contraire: unless your appearance has changed dramatically in the last few years, you’re more like a 6-7. I suspect that your “conspicuous lack of success with the ladies” has more to do with a lack of confidence than your looks!