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Why are men more visual in processing attractiveness?
Why are men more visual when processing attractiveness?
Anonymous
(18-24) 
It's in our genetic makeup and the reason we get blamed for thinking with our second head. Although it is the reason, IT HAS BEEN MADE AN EXCUSE. Its truly something that occurs naturally but can become an issue in a civilized world these days.
It's up to a male to be a gentleman about it and not behave so perverted, shallow and instantaneous when he gets that mental override of the human instinct to multiply. Now days, there are complex intellectual differences and similarities between the two sexes that plays a major role in courting a female. For obvious reasons, a female is much more than a warm hole. Go figure.
At the same damn time. As a dude, I can say,
not all men are shallow. The ones who actively socialize with females in a dating community setting, will either be shallow or quite the opposite of. You will have some dudes who are so prude, they stay single and dont even think like that because they have no deep rooted role in casual sex, let alone be in a position where choosing or refining standards is an option. Dudes would be parallel just as a female would in retrospect to having specific attributes you demand as a minimum standard. The hotter the dude, the hotter the chick. Such is a rule with confidence as it gives platform for the very question of shallowness. You will also have dudes who are in committed relationships and may look occassionally but have a moral obligation to themselves to be a better man. Then like I said, you get the middle, who for whatever reason, has no discipline with that urge, will shop around and choose only females with his specific scope of appearance preferences and before you know it, you got Joe blow, gods gift to women, who will disregard an amazing female with no flaws in her character for a minute detail like how she walks. As you would guess having an ego and dewomanizing behavior, he's always single.
Hope that was long and boring. Killed some time for me and I enjoyed it! Respect G@G fam!!!
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It is our instinct to look for someone that can be a healthy potential mate.
Someone that could carry our babies, someone that looks like they are a mother figure a caring type.
In this case without knowing the girl yet, we look at them first (probably why visual comes first).
We look at their face, their body, their puppies and their hip to waist ratio etc., there is no one ideal formula, each men will value each attributes differently based on their culture and race.
After the visual, depending on what kind of relationship we seek.
If we are looking for something long term, then the personality of the girl will matter next.
If it's just for a hook up then skip the above.
Truth is, if men don't find the women sexually attractive, then we won't want to mate with them.
Hence the friend zone kicks in, sounds harsh but it is the same way around for women isn't that right?
I stopped asking why and started to believe people are going to like what are they going to like. And being visual doesn't necessarily translate to bad. It doesn't mean anything. It is just about finding someone who is easy on the eye by your individual standards man or woman. As long as they don't look like a tree monster in your eyes then go for it 😜
Come on we are all visual men and women that's why we have eyes. But what is attractive visually is so subjective. And that's why beauty is in the eye of the beholder 😉
Women are visual too. We just look at different things. I think where you place looks on your list is what is differentiate us as individuals but we all do have it somewhere there.
One last thing, I travel a lot and I know for a fact that the degree of how much a society gives importance to looks is extremely different country to country. Men are not all the same everywhere on the planet! Same goes for women.
598 opinions shared on Guy's Behavior topic. I think men are more visual... but to a point. But I think other factors come into play! E. g. Barney Stinson’s Hot/Crazy scale... I think men also use other scales too. Hot/Interesting personality scale, Hot/kind scale. Because ladies before you are rude to a waiter, you better be damn sure you are like a 12 on hotness, because that’s the only thing that going to get you on the right side of that line!
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Are they? Well maybe , I couldn’t say for sure and I’d rather not. I can speak for me however and while I understand what society seems as attractive may be one type I know that my view is much different and has changed considerably as I have matured. Attractiveness for me is measured taking in the whole , from natural looks to how they present their looks to their character and personality to their attitude and everything in between. Sure I can look at an image of a woman and think “oh she’s very attractive” but give me an hour with her and I could see her very differently. In the same vein I could spend an hour with what society might consider to be a “plain” looking woman and think I love the person they are and want to know more.
If I had to guess, it is in the nature of a man's biological instinct as (historical) hunters to constantly seek the best targets. For biological reproduction, the best targets are those (women) seen as the most attractive, to better ensure attractive offspring - so the cycle will repeat & your genes will be propagated. (Contrast this with Intelligence, which is a bit more of a crapshoot & can be influenced more by environment.) Even for women, though, visual attraction is (usually) the initial lure (also to produce attractive offspring, as cited above) - other attractions come later.
Women are just as visual or even more I'd say. My guy friends like girls who have a nice personality and a fit body and an ok/average face... for girls we expect more. We want a guy with a hot face, hot body, sexy voice, lean and strong, hairstyle, the way he dresses... along with personality. Girls are very picky
- Anonymous(45 Plus)
Women are just as visual, and sexual. Take a look at all of the posts from women sexually frustrated due to lock down. The reason why they appear less sexual is because men are desperate and thirsty so they don't have to make the effort. The reason why they appear less visual is the same as my previous point.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/zf0-B5-gzgQ
Men are doing all of the work, taking all of the risks, and being thirsty and desperate. Why would a woman have to even worry about showing her interest? -
Honestly I dont think that's true. I think women just have more to consider. Men think about personality and looks. Women think about personality, looks, hobbies, job, friends, etc. I think looks matter just as much to women. Just like how a guy won't date a girl he finds unattractive, same goes for women. All the other trivial information just doesn't really matter
- Anonymous(25-29)
Because us men have a biological urge to spread our seeds. Women don’t have the same urge. Men also usually have higher levels of testosterone which equates to higher sex drives than women.
Thats why us men can find women to be visually attractive and we also get fixated on certain physical traits on a woman, like her navel or booty.
Most women don’t understand this, they’ll automatically assume guys are just perverts, since most women are not biologically wired to find men attractive in a physical sense. -
Not true. Women care more about looks than men due to evolutionary reasons. People usually date people who are attractive to them.
Because its in our evolutionary best interest to spread our seed to high genetic quality women. We don't have to worry about whether or not she'll stick around to protect us and raise our child. So the highest priority in our subconscious are visual ques of high quality genes.
While the same is true for women, women also have to considering other factors. As a cavewoman, you could have the baby of the manliest, most genetically gifted stud in the tribe, but it means nothing if he does stick around and protect you. Because you'll die anyway.-
I think that over thousands of years when men has been the leaders/rulers/deciders it made sense for women to find men with chatacter over looks. I think men just didn't need women for survival as for sex. While a woman's survival could depend upon the man having the right chatacter.
Today.. our differences are just that we evolved slightly different. It's highly instinct-based but personality usually wins in the long run. - 560 opinions shared on Guy's Behavior topic.
Woman care more about looks than men reason bieng evolutionary psychology due to how reproduction in humans work. In the old old days an unhealthy baby basically meant a death sentence, additionally most of the load of caring for the baby lies in the responsibility of the woman. Given that looks are a representation of health you would think it is more important to woman.
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I feel like both genders are quite visual. Men are either more aware or it, or have more trouble beign subtle about it. While women are either not that much aware of it, or like to be more subtle about it.
This reminds me something a girl friend told me one day, "Girl, if I were a dude I would have a boner almost all the time. How embarrassing! Thank God I'm a woman and it's not that easy to see when I'm excited!" - 741 opinions shared on Guy's Behavior topic.
Because we wouldn't survive as a species otherwise, its not like women are going to make the first move and when all you have are looks to go on, you have to act on them because your sure as hell not going to get to know her personality from across the room.
Nature, and Biology! Men are more visual, and it has always been that way since the Hunter/Gatherer days of pre-civilization. Men see shapes and patterns and that is useful in stalking game, with their natural camouflage.
Also, women's bodies, and curves are visually appealing, through evolution, so men want to be with women, and not just leave after the baby is born. Early evolution, but some subtle things still remain, deep in the subconscious.It has played to my advantage but I think even God makes mistakes. Bc it hurts a lot of women and then society makes excuses for them as though we are animals and not people who make conscious choices.
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I hear this claim all the time and I don't actually think it's true. Yes, guys will talk about how "hot" a girl is but usually only sometimes. Whereas I will hear ladies talking about how hot all sorts of guys are constantly. So I actually think women are in fact more visual.
Honestly I think men’s standards are pretty low... women are the picky ones. I am also going to admit that I care about looks and won’t date a person that I am not physically attracted to regardless of how fun their personality is...
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Because we look for fertility signs and women look for survival signs. Fertility signs are all visual signs. But women also look at your character, your attitude and your movements beside your looks. Because a man's masculine, confident attitude is crucial for his survival. Here is detailed article https://whywomendowhattheydo.com/are-women-as-visual-as-men-are/
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This is not true and no one believed this til John Gray Mars Venus promoted
this myth in the 1990's
Women and men are individuals , limiting people by gender is sexist
against both
654 opinions shared on Guy's Behavior topic. That's a very good question. This is a true statement and something that I've noticed also. But not being a man, I'm not in a good position to give an answer to this. I'm not sure what their reason is.
We are hard-wired this way. A man's job is to find the most beautiful and fertile woman. That requires scanning her visually. A woman's job is to find an alpha male who will fight, gather, and protect her.
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