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Reply 1
It depends on the guy but it's always nice to have a girl with a nice "personality" whatever that cliché is with the looks to mirror it.
yeah but i see loadsa girls who are average looking but such nice people , and they dont get loadsa attention. whereas girls who are pretty (but in most cases i know) are total bitches get a lot of attention from guys, but then again some of the guys arent that nice in persoanlity though
Reply 3
Yeah, but thats just normal teenage behaviour. We live in a society whereby the tissue of a person is seen and judged before the inside thoughts and "personality".
Reply 4
I hope beauty lies within...if not I'm screwed and will lead a lonely life with only my cats and slippers for company
Reply 5
generally...no:rolleyes:

organs lie within.i hear some of those are necessary for acts of love...rumors...
Reply 6
Gem
I hope beauty lies within...if not I'm screwed and will lead a lonely life with only my cats and slippers for company


Painfully true for many.
Reply 7
Gem
I hope beauty lies within...if not I'm screwed and will lead a lonely life with only my cats and slippers for company

you mean your chickens will abandon you to?

fiends.
Reply 8
Of course it does. It's all very well saying 'I'd only date someone hot' etc, but if this said hot person was a complete cock then you wouldn't really want to be in a relationship with them.

External, physical looks are important to me when I want a boyfriend, but equally so is personality and whats on the inside.
Actually I think girls are more superficial and shallow than guys are.
Males are not that choosy when it comes to finding a sexual mate, how many guys do you know that would "do anything with a pulse". I know a lot of girls who are not that physically attractive but have bubbly outgoing personalities and they get a lot of attention - and sex.
Females on the other hand are much more picky, and part of this is to do with (in my theory anyway) how they are accepted by their friends. When you hear girls gossiping to each other, they say things like this "I met this guy last night....he is soooooo fine", or "I met this guy", "is he fit?", "wow I met this bloke he's just got a body to diiiee for". You don't hear them saying I met this guy he's got a lovely PERSONALITY do you! Girls can be quite judgemental over each others partners and if one of them starts going out with an attractive male thats big time social status for her, conversely a female going out with a male deemed unattractive can be seen as having kind of accepted that she has to settle for less.
It's not like that with men, where "pulling a munter" can be seen as quite an achievement amongst ones peers.
I also think the "nice guys finish last" theory is flawed. It should be written "non-attractive nice guys finish last". Pat Rafter and Tim Wheeler are nice guys but I would be surprised if they are virgins.
In general if you put to a girl the choice of an average looking fella with a top personality, or a gorgeous prick, most girls would go for the gorgeous prick. They would like the average looking fella as their friend so they could have a whinge about the gorgeous prick, "why do i always fall for the wrong guys" etc.
Having said all that, the one girl that I really fell in love with I wasn't that attracted to physically when I first met her, but she grew on me as I got to know her because she was such a lovely girl. I do feel cynical that the same would happen to a male though!
MagicNMedicine
Pat Rafter and Tim Wheeler

:confused:
Reply 11
good question.

society is so damn vain and shallow that the answer for most is obvious.

i feel like i stand alone when i say the following :

A very good looking girl can be made to look very ugly if she has a bad personality. For me, a bad personality would be defined as selfish, inconsiderate, grumpy, lazy etc.

On the other hand, an AVERAGE (but not ugly) looking girl can be made to look very attractive if she has a good personality. I define a good personality as somebody who is clever, considerate, generous, caring, entertaining and so on.

i would much rather go out with the latter. I would rather hold an average looking plain girl with wonderful depth, then a physically beautiful girl who is mentally ugly. .
Reply 12
Personality --> Friend
Appearance --> Girlfriend.
Personality + Appearance --> Wife
TomX
Personality --> Friend
Appearance --> Girlfriend.
Personality + Appearance --> Wife



but how would they get to be your wife if you didnt give her a chance
Reply 14
MagicNMedicine

It's not like that with men, where "pulling a munter" can be seen as quite an achievement amongst ones peers.


That's one of the things I find most despicable about male culture.

What if you were the girl, and you actually liked the guy, only to discover he and his mates were laughing at you behind your back because he was doing it for a dare?
Helenia
That's one of the things I find most despicable about male culture.

What if you were the girl, and you actually liked the guy, only to discover he and his mates were laughing at you behind your back because he was doing it for a dare?


:ditto:
Reply 16
pink_natsy_2005
everyone says that 'beauty lies within' :rolleyes: , but imo a guy would be more interested in a pretty girl whose personality was avergae, rather than an average girl with an amazing personality. or even a less-than-average girl with an amazing and intereting personality.

what do you think, girls and guys?


Both have to be there!

Being physically attracted to someone is good. But I also like to respect the person for who they are.

IMO, both genders can be shallow. I remember when I was in school, it was all about pulling the fittest girl. Personality really was secondary.
Reply 17
yes at school it was all about pulling the fittest girl.

but when u get older, it seems that it is the girls who care about pulling the fittest guys. Fit guys are like gucci handbags. They're an accessory to make that girl more respected to her equally shallow mates.

now how's that for female maturity.
Reply 18
pink_natsy_2005
:confused:


They're Aussie tennis players.
Reply 19
MagicNMedicine
Actually I think girls are more superficial and shallow than guys are.
Males are not that choosy when it comes to finding a sexual mate, how many guys do you know that would "do anything with a pulse". I know a lot of girls who are not that physically attractive but have bubbly outgoing personalities and they get a lot of attention - and sex.
Females on the other hand are much more picky, and part of this is to do with (in my theory anyway) how they are accepted by their friends. When you hear girls gossiping to each other, they say things like this "I met this guy last night....he is soooooo fine", or "I met this guy", "is he fit?", "wow I met this bloke he's just got a body to diiiee for". You don't hear them saying I met this guy he's got a lovely PERSONALITY do you! Girls can be quite judgemental over each others partners and if one of them starts going out with an attractive male thats big time social status for her, conversely a female going out with a male deemed unattractive can be seen as having kind of accepted that she has to settle for less.
It's not like that with men, where "pulling a munter" can be seen as quite an achievement amongst ones peers.
I also think the "nice guys finish last" theory is flawed. It should be written "non-attractive nice guys finish last". Pat Rafter and Tim Wheeler are nice guys but I would be surprised if they are virgins.
In general if you put to a girl the choice of an average looking fella with a top personality, or a gorgeous prick, most girls would go for the gorgeous prick. They would like the average looking fella as their friend so they could have a whinge about the gorgeous prick, "why do i always fall for the wrong guys" etc.
Having said all that, the one girl that I really fell in love with I wasn't that attracted to physically when I first met her, but she grew on me as I got to know her because she was such a lovely girl. I do feel cynical that the same would happen to a male though!


there's no way that girls on the whole care more abt appearance then men.yes some are shallow, but men are worse!!women's bodies are always being analysed by men.i've often seen a pretty girl with a not so great boy, but rarely vice versa.evolutionary speaking, girls are programmed to care less abt looks- they are more interested i n status and general security, whereas men just want the ones they feel will have the best genes ie the best looking.
i really wouldn't worry too much guys...you cant change the way of the world