Why can girls say she's pretty but guys can't?

i ain't jealous like other guys,if I find some guy is good-looking or handsome,i'd probably appreciate it and try being better
sometimes guys don't say it because they don't wanna be misjudged as gay

Because we don't find men attractive. We also feel a sense of pride in ourselves, so if we compliment a guy saying he's "handsome" it makes us feel deep down that we can't be better then them.There's a huge difference in the meaning between a girl saying another girl is good looking, and a guy is good looking. For example:
Girl: "Shes pretty good looking" (she only means the other girl is good looking and that's it, not that she's better then her)
Guy: "Hes handsome"
1. Sounds gay
2. Who says handsome now-a-days except women?
3. Guy says to himself "what if he started hitting on my girl, and my girl falls for him? Shit..."
Besides, girls are more emotional and are more likely to become "lesbian" just because of the chromosomes and all that. Guys on the other hand are least likely to be gay. I forget what the percentage is for someone to have the mutation of being gay, but I know its unlikely.

cuz that's gay and lesbians are hot!

Honestly, I really don't know why people complain about men calling other men handsome. Its just a scare for most men who think its making them look or sound gay.

I have a cousin who does modeling, not on a large scale, but he does take professional pictures. I often compliment him, and it really does build up his ego. He doesn't have a problem with it, and I don't either, it might just be a maturity thing though.

Its all on the value systems and what we are taught when were young. Males can't like pink for some reason. Its sort of like that. haha

thats B>S a guy can say anything he wants but they feel insecure you might call em gay for me I'm gay I try to act straight but one day it just popped out of my mouth saying Zac Efron is so hot

It's because girls are more self consious when it comes to appearance so they are naturally complimented more to make them feel better. Guys on the other hand don't really give a crap about their appearance so they don't necessarily need to be complimented on their looks by a guy. that would be considered gay anyways.

usually jealousy, I've gotten a lot of biased answers from girls I've dated about other girls, just because they still have feelings for me, and they become jealous, so they don't want us saying that "that girl is hot"

actually I don't know how you girls measure the hotness
in my opinion, your taste does not depend on any base :D
but we (the guys) have a criteria that we can apply to any girl so we can consider her attractive or not

I have no problem saying a guy is good looking, and I am 100% heterosexual. The only guys who would take offense or be reluctant to do it are those that 1) don't really care or 2) are not fully comfortable with their sexuality.

Because guys associate good looks with our physical attraction. When we are attracted to awoman we see her physicaly as good looking. Even if she isn't to everyone else. We can be physicaly attracted to women who we don't like there personalities. But we are not usualy attracted to women who we don't think are beutiful. Because straight guys are not attracted to other men. We honestly arnt looking at there looks. I don't know instincivly when a man is good looking to a woman or not. Because in not attracted to his chin or arms or anything. Because I'm not attracted to anything he has I don't see it as good looking or bad looking just there. I can memorize what women say about guys. So in other words I know Justin timberlake must be good looking because women say he is. I know tom cruise must be good looking cause women say that. Usher is goodlooking. But I only know that from what women say. If I didn't hear women say this I would have no idea. Its weird one girl won't talk to me now becauseof this. She said how hot Tom Brady of the New England patriots is. I said what makes him hot? I don't understand. She mentioned his chizled jaw. And stuff. I'm like o ok. She didn't believe that I can't see that because I'm not attracted to it. So now this girl doenst talk to me. I totaly don't understand this. How am I as aguy supposed to know what is attractive about another guy. I don't know how to do that.

its more socially acceptable (at least in the US) for girls to act in ways that could be considered homosexual.

Because male-male attraction is more taboo than female-female attraction.

well the nature of guys is to sometimes stay quiet, and the nature of girls is to compliment on sfuff, wether its good or bad. Just imagine a guy saying, "Oh look at him, he's so HOT!" or " he is pretty" doesn't sound like a guy at all

It's a matter of taste, just like food. I hate seafood, my brother loves it. Even though I know he enjoys eating it I couldn't honestly say "Wow, that salmon is delicious!". To me, it's not.

More to the point, men don't see other men as attractive -- at the most we're aware of the fact that women find them attractive. Like George Clooney; I don't THINK he's handsome, but I KNOW he's handsome - to others. Straight gals and gay guys. As men are more visual than women, attraction and sexuality are very different for us. There is no male equal to the female breast. There just isn't. As a heterosexual male, other men don't have a single trait that I find physically attractive, and I'm not inclined in the least to seek one out. I see no reason to, and I doubt I could find one even if I tried.

Many girls will admit to having a female crush, they'll kiss each other at parties to turn the guys on, etc. They're not as rigid in their sexuality as men are. For most of us it's not necessarily a fear of being considered gay, as once you get out of High School people either don't care, or aren't stupid enough to assume that a chronically heterosexual male is suddenly gay just because he compliments another guy. We're just don't find other men attractive.

However, while we're unlikely to feel physical attraction, we can feel admiration. We can admire, respect, and even envy another man's intelligence, creativity, or athletic ability. We can revere them for their abilities as a leader in a way similar to how a son reveres a father. We can develop a camaraderie, a brotherhood with fellow soldiers in a way that women will probably never fully understand. Every man has someone he looks up to, or aspires to be like. You won't find us comparing our figures, but you could easily find us attempting to embody the ideals of the man we hope to one day become.

Perhaps because, for whatever reason, girls can compliment each other on their looks without everyone immediately blatantly questioning their heterosexuality. Nobody assumes that a girl is lesbian because she compliments another, but everyone does it the minute a guy compliments another.

CUZ WERE MEN! WE WENT TO CHUCK NORRIS'S SCHOOL OF HARDENED COMPLIMENTS, FOR MEN! YEAAA!

most guys don't think the same way girls do. unlike women most men don't walk around comparing themselves to other men. I could careless if my buddy lost 5 pounds or is wearing a new pair of coach shoes. I don't think men have a problem saying another guy is handsome. Men just don't think about these things nearly as much as women do.

i look for girls all the time only, why I will waste my time looking to other guys its just weird.

oh, I say guys are good looking all the time.
However, I am very unusual.
And yes, I'm straight.

it all has to do with the male ego. if you say something about how another guy looks everyone around you says your gay and guys don't like being called gay ..

yea I wonder the same thing my ex was askin about one of my coworkers and I said he was a good looking guy and she was like I knew you were gay!

Girls are very conscious of their image and how they look. Guys aren't. Girls can see when another girl looks feminine (attractive) because it's what they themselves strive for (to be attractive to guys). Guys don't really do this. Sure, there are some guys who have outfits and choose what they wear carefully, but the majority of us just throw on whatever is handy. We don't look for masculine (attractive to girls) characteristics in other men because we don't find those qualities attractive. We want a girl who is feminine so that's the type of quality we look for. Since femininity is not a part of the straight man's visage, we do not see other men as attractive.

Me personally I have a hard time comprehending why girls think guys are attractive. We're all hairy whatnot. Boggles the mind just to think about it...

Id comment if I was asked...but I'm not gonna sit at a bar around my buddies and rate guys as they walk buy...they would never hang out with me again!

4u2nv hit it right on the nose.

Me personally, I'll say if a guy is handsome if asked about it.

ego thing

I don't think guys calling another guy handsome is gay. I have guy friends that will say stuff like "he's a good looking guy"...it's one thing if a guy is like "omg that guy is sooo hot" lol because I have a gay friend who does that. But there is nothing wrong with a guy saying another guy is good looking. It's just society I guess.

guys think they will seem gay or whatever. But I personally think its attractive when a guy is comftorble and mature enough to say another guy looks good. being like "idk I'm not gay!" or something like that makes me wonder why he's defending himself so much.. like he's hiding something.

if you are in relatioship with this guy and you ask him how the other guys looks

ex. if the other guy is handsome or better looking than him..hed say I don't know"im a guy" but if the other guy is uglier than him he'd def say so.

They can, haha. Or at least I don't care. I don't think there's anything weird about that. I think any guy who takes offense to compliments from another guy probably isn't very secure in their own sexuality and cares WAY too much what everyone else thinks.

because girls usually size other girls up, comparing the other girl to themself. guys don't do so as often.

Ive been wondering the same thing recently actually. I had a guy friend ask me and my girl friend why we were commenting on this 'hot' girl that we just saw, and he accused us of being lesbians. However, both of us are straight, and we just said "girls can do that without having to be homosexual" with raised eyebrows, as if it was the dumbest thing he has ever said.

I think its how society has made it more socially acceptable for women to compliment on another female's looks, compared to men. Women are also more into the physical attractiveness thing with make up too, so they are more aware of looks on other people. But then, that's just my opinion :)

this is a question that has been in my head forever. lol
i think its just cause guys don't like to express themselves due to modern society. they are looked at weirdly if they say something like that. but when girls say that, people don't think there's anything wrong.
even though they might think a guy is handsome or cute, they would not say anything.

There are many different answers to this question. I think that a lot of guys think that people will question there masculinity (and sexual orientation).

I agree with notsobad: girls compare each other CONSTANTLY, and guys just don't worry with that kind of stuff. My boyfriend, if I point it out to him, has NO problem complimenting on another guy (even to his face) but he doesn't walk around thinking about whether or not I'd like to see him wearing that guys blue jeans... lol, but good question!

lol good question-it would be really strange to hear a guy say another guy is good looking lol. Guess its all to do with being masculine and not wanting anyone to think they're gay-i know my guy friends would get torn apart for saying that another guy was good looking lol.

A guy paying too much attention to his appearance is kind of considered effeminate. They don't see dressing up as something masculine. They thrill in doing the guy stuff than rating their friends' looks.

to me for a straight guy to say another guy is hot, is weird. if he says he's good looking is okay.
hot means good looking and you wouldn't mind doing them, to me

It's not "normal" for guys to say that...So they don't do it. It's dumb...they should just admit it. I've been wondering the same thing as well...lol Maybe girls are just more honest... ?

I know of one guy who does, and he is TOTALLY staight. It is because men like to seem bold, and they think it makes their "masculinity" go down. They don't want to seem at the least bit gay, and sometimes they think they will even get made fun of for it...& that's what I have heard from the guy who admits it.