# Who is better looking? You or your SO **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 29, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641 "2008-02-29T14:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/21 "2008-02-29T19:04:54Z")
We’re probably about even. I’d say my husband has the better face, but I have a better body. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/22 "2008-02-29T19:26:26Z")
I don’t even have an SO and my answer would still have to be HER! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/23 "2008-02-29T20:05:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] An excuse to post a picture! [You decide.](http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s47/juliarmstrng/P1010001.jpg) [/QUOTE] Are you serious? You know what my answer is. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/24 "2008-02-29T20:32:11Z")
My wife. Of course, she had help. Her dad was the spitting image of Frank Sinatra, her mom was the spitting image of Marilyn Monroe. _My_ dad looked like Ed McMahan. ---
**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:** [February 29, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/25 "2008-02-29T20:34:37Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Are you serious? You know what my answer is. [/QUOTE] Well, we can’t expect everyone to have such good taste. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/26 "2008-02-29T21:47:05Z")
I once read in a psychology text that we all tend to subconsciously be drawn to people who are pretty similar to ourselves in degree of beauty, and I do think that’s the case for my boyfriend and I. I’d say he is about an equal level of attractiveness to me. In fact, we look so much alike that one of his coworkers thought on our first meeting that I was his sister (just a little awkward there 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/27 "2008-02-29T21:57:00Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Well, we can’t expect everyone to have such good taste. 😉 [/QUOTE] You’re going on an assumption here. You haven’t tasted me. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/28 "2008-02-29T22:29:22Z")
I’d say my GF is a bit more attractive than I am. She’s an amazingly petite blond with huge eyes and an amazing smile. I’m sort of petite (manly petite) but kinda in shape (I only weigh 135lbs to her 100lbs), blondish hair which I’m in the early process of growing out so it looks like shit. I don’t have any pictures of us yet…at least good pictures. She dresses much better than I do; she has a good sense of style. I’m more of a t-shirt/jeans guy. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/29 "2008-02-29T22:31:04Z")
My wife, of course. She’s a raven-haired MILF (Think Xena with hazel eyes). I’m a redheaded guy (where’s that pukey smiley again?). Nuff said. I think women are better looking in general, anyway. Mmmmmm…women! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/30 "2008-02-29T22:31:10Z")
All my SOs have been better looking than I am. Otherwise, what’s the point? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/31 "2008-02-29T22:46:40Z")
I’m no ogre or anything (IMHO), but my wife is a hell of a lot better looking than I am. ---
**Author:** ![Marienee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/32 "2008-02-29T22:54:46Z")
Depends on where you are. I think Dearly Beloved is some serious fine. Just a touch exotic, blond-on-blue, square jaw, dimples and cheekbones out to here. No butt, alas, but very very good legs and his back is poem to masculine beauty (Male beauty originates in the lower back. Really). Then I visited Holland, where he is from. And discovered that here he is the very opposite of exotic. He is in fact a classic. The boy next door. Half the country looks like that. By that time, though, I had discovered his other charms and was hooked. Which is possibly why we didn’t visit Holland before that, he’s sneaky that way. My primary defining feature is that I am a human in miniature. I clean up nicely but haven’t turned heads since I was 16 and wearing very little. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/33 "2008-02-29T23:33:34Z")
My current girlfriend and I are fairly equal looks wise. Except in the morning, I look like death, hair in every direction, puffy face, bags under my eyes. She has the type of hair that doesn’t get messed up after sleeping and looks just the same as when we went to bed, damn her. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/34 "2008-02-29T23:44:08Z")
My husband is a stunner; slim, tall, toned, with long curly blonde hair, high cheekbones and always well dressed. I try to stay in shape, but often have trouble matching my socks. However, the blue-eyed deathray intensity of his gaze tends to even things out. People often misinterpret him. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/35 "2008-02-29T23:46:34Z")
He’s much more Classically good-looking: about 5’10", 190/mostly muscle (enough of a belly to be cute rather than gross), great ass, chiseled features, ice blue eyes. Me, I’m known for my predilection for pie, bacon, and beer, and it’s obvious from looking at me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/36 "2008-03-01T00:13:37Z")
We’re about even. I could stand to lose ten pounds, and he’s about perfect weight-wise. But he’s more plain-looking than me. When we’re in “dressing up” mode, I think I win, because he can’t be bothered to care as much as I do. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/37 "2008-03-01T01:54:46Z")
Y’all l have no idea how lucky I got. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/38 "2008-03-01T02:38:28Z")
Mrsin is definately better looking than me. I have proof positive. My mom told me on my wedding day that the groom was prettier than the bride. Heh. And I’m looking at him right now and he is soooo damn cute after 36 years I can’t believe it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Red1980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@Red1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red1980)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/39 "2008-03-01T04:39:45Z")
I would say my gf is better looking, but I would imagine she would say I am better looking than her, but that would probably just be to be a sweetheart. I honestly believe she is better looking than I am. I wouldn’t say the difference is huge or anything, but she is a very attractive girl. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641/40 "2008-03-01T06:27:43Z")
My wife is significantly better looking than I. Thank gawd our three daughters take the best from Mom and least from me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-better-looking-you-or-your-so/439641.md?page=3)