Not gonna bother with the poll choices, but turnabout is fair play.
I’m offended and demand women find all of us drop dead gorgeous and/or not notice whether we are attractive or not.
I can guarantee its not 100%
I see some very handsome fellas on the telly.
Rarely down at the supermarket/shopping centre.
I blame airbrushing and photoshop.
Gay man here. I’d say somewhere between 1% and 2%.
And that’s “drop-dead-gorgeous” by my own subjective standards, not society’s.
The really good looking ones are mostly gay though. It’s scenic but a lot like looking through the bakery window.
4 %
Anyone I would describe as a hunk of beefcake is not someone I would also describe as ‘drop dead gorgeous’.
So… 0% I guess?
Same. (except for the gay man part) Fortunately it’s not important.
Strictly eye candy? Maybe 8%
But it’s mostly personality for me. I’ve had crushes on guys that that look like geeks at first glance.
Geeks with good hygiene, mind you. But still geeky. Geeks with that certain special something…
Where was I? Oh yes, on drop dead gorgeous guys? 8%.
I’m so tired of these unrealistic male beauty standards!
A huge slide rule? 
I have never been good looking in any sense so my opinion and gender makes this my opinion not really count in this thread but -------- having had some friends who were male-model handsome it didn’t always play out well for them. I probably did better in all senses of the expression being a little bit of a bad-boy and funny even with my lack of looks.
I’m a cis hetero dude, so maybe my vote doesn’t count, but I find most men to be pretty goofy looking. I will say though that professional rugby players seem to be disproportionately good-looking. I think it’s because of the dynamics of the sport that it tends to be high muscle-tone and low body fat.
I’d say under 10% But you have to remember that men generally have no options other than keeping themselves at a decent weight and having good hygiene practices. Women have all sorts of lotions and potions that we can use to beautify ourselves every day. If you saw some of the women that everyone thinks are drop-dead gorgeous without their makeup on, you might have a different opinion.
True for men and women. I know the wrong of “You’d be prettier if you smiled,” but it is not uncommon to see someone whom I believe to be physically attractive, but then I think their expression/mannerisms/words/etc make them seem like a real jerk. Or vacant. And it is harder to consider a jerk gorgeous/beautiful.
I think men are given a much broader pass than women in terms of what is considered attractive - or non-objectionable. I’m talking about the vast middle range of folk whose looks are average or somewhat attractive. An older guy may look “mature” while the woman is perceived as “old.” A guy can carry a few extra pounds w/o the criticism often directed at women. And guys are excused for putting far less effort into their looks than women in terms of hair, makeup, dress… But I’d imagine truly gorgeous men are pretty much as uncommon as truly gorgeous women.
Straight, 58 yr old male here.
It’s not the real me. I just have resting bastard face.
I suspect these sorts of questions could be answered purely statistically in terms of standard deviations on the bell curve. Just to put things in perspective, I imagine you would get the same sorts of percentages in any time period, despite standards of health, hygiene, and exercise having generally improved over the ages. Should a magic device be invented tomorrow that gave us all cut muscles, perfect skin, and huge… feet, there would just be new normal, with gorgeous being redefined as whatever folks happened to fall at the extreme of the new curve.
Hence the expression “10 in his/her hometown, 5 in L.A.”
You’re on to something here; while youth is pretty much inextricably tied into the perception of female beauty, it’s not with men. I’ve heard quite a few times that seveal male actors have become more handsome as they aged- Mark Harmon, James Franco and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are three that my wife has commented on recently for this phenomenon.
But yeah, overall I think both sexes have a normal distribution- most people are more or less “plain” looking, and only a smaller number are “attractive”, of which a very tiny number is actually “beautiful” or however you categorize it. Same thing on the ugly side of things- how often do you see someone who is actually truly ugly? Not too often- about as often as you see really beautiful people. Most people fall in the plain category- probably within one standard deviation from the mean. The area between one and two standard deviations is attractive/good looking or unattractive/not good looking, and outside of two standard deviations you get beautiful and ugly.
More or less; I doubt someone’s going to quibble about the difference whether someone in the 4th percentile is beautiful or not, just because they’re out of that 2.4% of people outside of 2 standard deviations on the good looking side.
It’s a very tiny percentage. I remember some time back there was a thread about whether women prefer a man with an attractive body, or one with an attractive face, and in an effort to make a determination, I decided to assess every man on my walk home. Out of about 35 men I observed, there were 0% with an attractive face, and 0% with an attractive body (to me). And that’s just for whether I would be attracted, not if I think they are drop dead gorgeous. Maybe once a year I’ll see a man in person that I think is truly gorgeous – the rest of the time it’s only people in media.
I have noticed that many Olympic athletes are way better looking that average, e.g. gymnasts. Of course there are exceptions.