Almost everyone gets the chance to have kids. I see many very unattractive people who get married or have boy/girl friend and have kids.
But our society is obsessed with attractive people.
What is the point of being attractive ?
The fat ugly women of the world often seem to have 6 kids. While the attractive rich people live in apartments with no kids or an only child.
Sex
Next question. :rolleyes:
You are not answering the question. There are fat ugly people having lots of sex. Probably with other unattractive people
Most people prefer to have sex with people they find attractive. Being unattractive oneself doesn’t necessarily diminish this desire. Attractive people find it easier to have sex with people they find most attractive. There you go. It’s about sex.
As someone who has spent a few years as “Indifferent to Appearance” and a few years as “At Least Somewhat Attractive”, let me say, it’s got its perks. I am only exaggerating slightly when I say that nearly everything in life gets a little bit easier when you’re lookin’ good.
P.S. Don’t sell Sex short.
The answer has partially been states. Being attractive means that you have a better chance of having sex with other attractive people. Attractiveness in and of itself consists of things like a healthy body weight, proper height, healthy teeth and eyes, and facial symmetry. These are direct or indirect markers for health and good genes. It is about finding the most healthy and desirable person one can to procreate with.
Good looking people make more money.
In fact it causes a lot of animosity. You think women bitch? Men hate other men for being attractive. It flies in the face of the entire masculine culture where killing the mammoth and discovering fire is the way to more sex. And no, muscles don’t count, that’s stilll an achievement/potential thing. It’s a slap in the face to everything men are taught for passive attraction to work.
So yes, the main benefit of being attractive is to have hot partners that cause angst to your enemies. Secondly, it evades the need to spend up big to acquire said hot partners. Some don’t need a Ferrari or an Armani wardrobe. The secret is that those are for unattractive men.
Why I’m given to understand that one male member of this board has a current eurasian partner, half his age, occuring entirely according to the passive male scenario outlined above.
Being attractive? Its’ the bees knees.
Exactly. You get to screw better looking people.
And, hey, some sex isn’t as good as MORE sex. More sex with better looking people is worth being gorgeous.
Perhaps you are a woman. I’ve never given much thought to how attractive other men are, and I can’t think of any male acquaintances who seem to care, either. Men don’t have a “culture.” We have hockey and beer.
Hockey is for girls.
Little girls with pigtails who have crushes on The Backstreet Boys.
Many attractive woman don’t realize how many things are done for them BECAUSE they are attractive. An attractive women on the side of the road with a flat tire is going to get someone to stop and help a lot faster than someone who isn’t attractive. The problem is that they have experienced this kind of behavior all their life so they think it is normal.
Finally around 40 years old, things begin to change and they are forced to join the rest of the population.
The reason for this behavior is, of course, that men love to have sex with attractive women. And they think, usually mistakenly, that by being helpful, they increase their chances of doing so.
Being attractive is not the same as being beautiful.
A beautiful woman can lose all chance of being attractive when she opens her mouth; an attractive woman becomes beautiful when she smiles.
Speaking from the male point of view we tend not to have our attention drawn across a crowded room to the woman with the most attractive personality but to the best looking, and then I suspect we tend to assess their personality to fit their looks .
Flaws instead of being irritating are rationalised as "cute"or “lovable” and as such desirable traits ,if they say something stupid we smile beningly enjoying a warm feeling of protectiveness.
But if a plain women says something dumb we are impatient with them and think they’re bloody stupid.
The other side of the coin is where we treat very intelligent women who happen to be beautiful as well as gifted as helpless airheads .
I’m not proud of it but I’m as guilty as the next man,something to do with theromes maybe?
Speaking from the male point of view we tend not to have our attention drawn across a crowded room to the woman with the most attractive personality but to the best looking, and then I suspect we tend to assess their personality to fit their looks .
Flaws instead of being irritating are rationalised as "cute"or “lovable” and as such desirable traits ,if they say something stupid we smile beningly enjoying a warm feeling of protectiveness.
But if a plain women says something dumb we are impatient with them and think they’re bloody stupid.
The other side of the coin is where we treat very intelligent women who happen to be beautiful as well as gifted as helpless airheads .
I’m not proud of it but I’m as guilty as the next man,something to do with pheromes maybe?
Pheromones.
Yeah but even though i’m a bloke i’m incredibly attractive so that my fatigue error is engagingly cute rather then daft. 
Who are you talking about?
In 46 years, I’ve seen virtually no evidence that this is true.
Nice observation. I hadn’t considered that, but it’s true.