Whenever I tell people I went on a date (last weekend, yesterday, etc) the usually follow up with this inevitable question: "Was the girl cute?"
"Was the girl cute?" What kind of question is that? No. I went out of my way to ask a not so pretty girl out on a date.
It's like my form of tithing. Ninety percent of my dates are for me, but ten percent is for the church.
I love putting my pithy dates on my yellow slip. And if it was dinner, I put a little under fast offering too.
-Mike Out
That is so funny. I think your a good writer. It seems that is always the qestion after I was dating, and then your friends won't even believe any of your words until they get validation from pictures on facebook.
ReplyDeleteI'll tie this post into my own blog (http://idd302.blogspot.com/), which covers behavioral economics. There is actually an economic and evolutionary rationale to why men seem so concerned about good looks in their mates. The evolutionary psychologists argue that good looks in women in historical contexts tended to signal youth and furtility, which are important for men concerned with child-rearing capabilities in potential mates.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't think that men are the most shallow people either. This comes from Dan Ariely (who happens to have both a PhD in Psychology and a PhD in Business): "Men are very sensitive to women's attractiveness. Women seem to be sensitive to men's height and salary."
In terms of behavioral economics, looks tend to matter most to the people who are good looking (http://www.livescience.com/2307-romance-matters-beautiful.html). Granted, for the average person there may be a certain amount of ugliness that they may not tolerate, but for the most part 7's tend to pair up with other 7's, 9-10's pair up with other 9-10's, and the 5's go out with other 5's. This has been empirically supported.
However, research has also shown that marriages are more successful in general if the wife is slightly-marginally better looking than the husband (http://www.psypost.org/2010/04/happy-marriage-attractive-husband-562), and slightly smarter (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7351856/Scientists-find-mathematical-formula-for-the-perfect-wife.html).
@Justin, thanks so much man, I actually am a creative writing minor, and I do stand up comedy back home
ReplyDelete@Sean, I really enjoy your blog a lot and it really makes you think.