# How much of a "looker" were/are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 2, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494 "2025-01-02T18:40:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/61 "2025-01-03T22:48:44Z")
I too have a Jewish wife. We’ve been married 50 years. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/62 "2025-01-03T23:27:45Z")
I’ve won second place in a beauty contest and won $10 _several_ times! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/63 "2025-01-03T23:45:49Z")
You look like my 7th grade Maths teacher. Coach Pepper. Do you roll a pencil in your palms, with a ring on, during an exam. Pacing the classroom. Occasionally poking a(my) head down toward my desk top. Eh, not too bad. Clean and well groomed. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/64 "2025-01-04T00:01:24Z")
I’ve never had a good opinion of myself. I never thought anything more than a 5. My wife says I’m hot. I say she is crazy. One of us is right. About 10 years ago when I was totally single I had a pretty good run so I guess I stacked up ok against my contemporaries at the time. Now age has put a lot of weight on me which is hard on a formerly skinny guy. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/65 "2025-01-04T00:02:41Z")
Yeah to the pile on loving the stereotypical Jewish woman looks. Still good looking after 40 years of putting up with me. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/66 "2025-01-04T00:09:57Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > At her request I am experimenting with letting the beard get bushier and longer rather keeping it tightly trimmed. I like it but given that it is mostly white it definitely ages me up. Beard hair color is a funny thing. I’m 47, and have a salt and pepper beard and mustache, but the hair on my scalp is still all black. I’m sure it’ll catch up eventually, but it’s not there yet, and the discordance in the two knocks me down a number, at least in my own opinion. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/67 "2025-01-04T00:18:28Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Meh. I hate these 10 point scales. Are they bell shaped around the 5? Even numbers in each decile? Are most of us thinking we should be 8ish? Everyone above average? Clearly I overthink it! Yeah, I never know how to calibrate these scales. 10 is obviously you look like Brad Pitt or Margot Robbie. But after that, who knows. Like is 5 like the average person and what does that look like? It’s almost like a logarithmic scale. 6 is like minimum “fuckable” and each point gets increasingly more competitive. Currently in my 50s, I apparently look like Hans Gruber from Die Hard. So I guess however you would rank a 40-something Alan Richman. Which, isn’t so bad IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/68 "2025-01-04T00:43:35Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Pacing the classroom. Occasionally poking a(my) head down toward my desk Wait, that was you!? Ha ha, thanks Beck. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/69 "2025-01-04T01:04:41Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > My Jewish wife is 57. I thought she was gorgeous when we met in 1995, and I think she’s still gorgeous today. > [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I too have a Jewish wife. We’ve been married 50 years. Ditto. > [@DSeid](#): > > Yeah to the pile on loving the stereotypical Jewish woman looks. Still good looking after 40 years of putting up with me. why do you stress the “jewishness”? … (honest Q, not snark) … do jewish women/wives have some specific qualities? (truely or ascribed)? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/70 "2025-01-04T01:05:31Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > do jewish women/wives have some specific qualities? They control the space lasers. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/71 "2025-01-04T01:10:20Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > why do you stress the “jewishness”? … (honest Q, not snark) … do jewish women/wives have some specific qualities? (truely or ascribed)? Because they were responding to: > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I was “pretty for a Jewish girl” in my teens & 20s, and I guess maybe a bit into my 30s. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/72 "2025-01-04T01:23:36Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Yeah to the pile on loving the stereotypical Jewish woman looks. And another one here, this year will be 33 years together and 26 married. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/73 "2025-01-04T01:28:57Z")
Ya’ll making me want a jewish wife. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/74 "2025-01-04T01:31:58Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Currently in my 50s, I apparently look like Hans Gruber from Die Hard. So I guess however you would rank a 40-something Alan Richman. If I were not married, my response would be, “Dibs!” ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/75 "2025-01-04T05:21:49Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > Beard hair color is a funny thing For years my beard was almost strawberry blonde to auburn while my head hair was brown when last seen. Yeah, funny. The chin portion was the last to turn white. Trimming the sides shortest and not too long on the chin, with no hair to speak of elsewhere on my head for decades, I think contributed to an overall younger impression. The full bushy white beard is major change in contrast. Not a negative or a positive in my book. But it’s the first time I look notably different in pictures than I did ten years ago. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/76 "2025-01-04T07:06:19Z")
Younger school days, a 1. Youngest in my class, sharp tongue to ward off/provoke bullies, scrawny. I did sports and read, oblivious to girls. Came home after freshman year at college, now 6’2", 210, all muscle, better luck, say a 5. Still horribly shy. Now at 75, I’m the cool grandpa with the big handlebar mustache. I flirt with all the gals, tell them my wife says it tickles🙂 so I’m an 8 but taken by my sweetie. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/77 "2025-01-04T07:07:30Z")
When I was in my teens, I became rather buxom rather rapidly, and would get wolf whistles. My grandmother always said that I have Brooke Shield’s eyebrows (the 1980s versions). Now? Two weeks ago I was talking with a 48-year old man about a colleague who is 30. He said that for him a 30-year old is almost a kid, but since I am younger, that 30-year old is closer to my age. I’m 54. So I’m aging well. Got some gray, but even my hairdresser thinks my graying is going very well. But I am obese. And I live in a country with one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe, so mostly forgettable. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/78 "2025-01-04T09:59:26Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I’ve won second place in a beauty contest and won $10 _several_ times! Oh, yeah-- I’ve been in that beauty contest. The competition was strange, one was a short, fat guy in a white tie and tails. One was a _Scot Terrier_! I was pretty much guaranteed a prize, because I was wearing the coolest hat ever. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/79 "2025-01-04T10:21:46Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@Al128](#): > > > > why do you stress the “jewishness”? … (honest Q, not snark) … do jewish women/wives have some specific qualities? (truely or ascribed)? > > Because they were responding to: > > > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > > I was “pretty for a Jewish girl” in my teens & 20s, and I guess maybe a bit into my 30s. I put it in quotation marks, because it’s something people said about me. It was mostly yentas who said it, to my mother behind my back. It meant, essentially, that I wasn’t trying hard enough. And for some there was a very nasty subtext to it, but mostly, it was more like commenting that “she has such a pretty face, if she’d just lose 20 lbs…” It’s kind of sad that Jews have lower expectations for Jews, but gentiles don’t. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494/80 "2025-01-04T12:25:52Z")
When I was in my early twenties I was told by a few people that I looked like Angel (David Boreanez) from _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. These days I probably look more like the angel from _It’s a Wonderful Life_. Ok, slight exagerration, but fair to say I am not ageing too well! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-looker-were-are-you/1012494.md?page=5)