Poll: How do you rate your own appearance?

[Dags90]

Huh. I've been touted as attractive by both genders alike, but more gays have made (obvious) advances upon me than girls. If what you're saying is that gays simply have higher standards, than I find contradiction. If what you're saying is that gays and straights have the expectations expected from their opposite gender, than perhaps they should judge themselves as though they are the other gender for this study, I wonder. Just a curiosity, I guess...

That or gays are more likely to make overt advances, that would pretty much get rid of any contradiction. Or it could just be a sampling error.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I'm good looking. Nothing hansom about me, but everything's correctly portioned and in the right place.

Most women say my eyes are my best feature though. And they'd kill for my thick hair and eyelashes, it seems.

 

[templargunman]

I'm an average looking guy I guess. I don't particularly pay much attention to my looks.

 

[xdom125x]

Whenever I see myself in the mirror, I can say 1 thing for sure "My look is not sexually appealing. I look like I should be the uncool but cute(like a kid) brother of the guy getting all the girls."
So 4 out of 10.

 

[Odbarc]

I'm healthy looking. I'd say a 5 or a 6. But I'm one of those guys who rates people as 1's, not a "5 is a minimum" scale.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I don't believe that to be true. As a guy, I think that guys, straight or gay, have the ability to sense how attractive another male is and put themselves in the position of, say, a girl looking for a partner. I imagine this is similar for girls. I also imagine that these expectations only seem to exist to straight people or other gay people because of limited supply. But who knows.

My experience has suggested that it's pretty true. I've seen countless men that women swoon over rejected as "average at best" by a gay audience. This is the classic problem of the gay guy constantly told by women that they don't understand why he can't get a date since they perceive him as extremely attractive. Hell, you can roughly quantify this pretty easily - just ask women what number they rate a guy and then ask gay men. The numbers trend pretty systematically downward in almost all cases.

I'm completely willing to believe, as another poster pointed out, that self-esteem and self body image are pretty identical for gay and straight males, but when it comes to the judging of others, gay culture fetishizes youth, thinness, and physical attractiviness in men far, far beyond the level of straight culture.

Huh. I've been touted as attractive by both genders alike, but more gays have made (obvious) advances upon me than girls. If what you're saying is that gays simply have higher standards, then I find contradiction. If what you're saying is that gays and straights have the expectations expected from their opposite gender, than perhaps they should judge themselves as though they are the other gender for this study, I wonder. Just a curiosity, I guess...

First, what I'm saying is that the overwhelming generalization is that gay men will rate men as less attractive than heterosexual women will. Counting advances might be a problematically indirect means of measurement since there are a lot of situations where gay men are far more willing to make advances than heterosexual women tend to be. As I said though, as a general rule, if you get attractiveness ratings from both groups, the ratings from gay men will tend to be lower. There's probably also a ceiling effect here - so if you're really attractive, the scores aren't going to differ a lot and people closer to the middle are going to be better indicators of the trend.

I think that you wouldn't see the effect at all as clearly if you asked people to rate their OWN attractiveness since the amount of self-doubt seems to be pretty even across sexuality. The reason I initially brought it up is that I was intending to answer according to what I think other people think of me, attempting to take into consideration the difference.

 

[Plurralbles]

199 guys ont he escapist are honest.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I'm... alright. I would just call myself average, but, according to others, I am actually rather good-looking. I don't know what to think.

 

[The Lunatic]

I'm okay? I guess.

Not had anyone recoil in horror, so, I guess things can't be too bad.

 

[Dogstile]

I have posted this before and I will do again.

http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk97/dogstilez/?action=view&current=me-2.jpg

I am sexy. Also, next one is me while drunk, covered in sand, and tossing up a middle finger at a camera.

http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk97/dogstilez/?action=view&current=ME-1.jpg

I'd say I was a 10

 

[DasDestroyer]

Pretty average, I'd say.

 

[Berethond]

Overconfidence can be a weakness here, however.

very true, but I'm being friendly and assuming any hugely over confident comments are based in sarcasm.

I agree there is nothing more then annoying the overconfident cocky douchebags. Sure everyone should be confident in themselves but there comes a point where it is just too much and becomes annoying.

Very true, but people like that just seem to attract each other and spend their whole life in a 'mines bigger' competition.

And we have loads of fun off by ourselves too, leaving you normal people to go off and do whatever it is you guys do while we dick about.

That said, I'm an extremely attractive man. If on the short side. I'm told it adds to my charm, however.

 

[Dango]

How I would rate my looks kind of depends on my mood, since half of the time I'm in school I try to cover my face as much as possible, while the other half of the time I kinda think of myself as good looking, go I'll just goth with "average".

 

[Stuberfinn88]

I rate myself the way any human should rate themselves, I am not shallow enough to think I am the hottest thing on the planet, but at the same time I am not a self loathing person that hates everything about myself. I think of myself as an average human being with an appearance that no other human being can exactly match in appearance. I am a one of a kind human, just like everyone else( that total contradicts itself but you get what I mean)!

 

[demoman_chaos]

I am simply put, a goofy lookin' feller.

 

[The Hero Killer]

I used to think I was handsome but only because older people who try to be nice would tell me so. In actuality I'm below average in a world that only accepts A's.

 

[InfiniteSingularity]

"Good looking guy", i don't exactly think that of myself but that's the average of feedback I get from girls

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

Meh. Im good looking but im not exactly the cutest/best looking out there. (And I ALWAYS look terrible in photos)

 

[The_Chief]

im almost decent. but this summer im fixing it. ima get cut and be sexy . that is all.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

10/10 baby B^)