Friday, April 06, 2007

wow, been checking in to the blog a few times these few days but only for short periods of time. and I was always stuck at Alex's delicious photos.. Sorry Mrs Goh and Tian Han if I sounded too offensive! Didn't mean to.. Just practicing my composition skills.. I'm kinda lousy at choosing words now.. haha..

Erm regarding Siying's post.. While Mrs Goh gave her trillion pounds worth, let me give my half-a-rupiah's worth to add to the tally of the guys' responses.. (pathetically 2 so far :( Nah just kidding, we're the only REAL guys here so its full attendance. :p )

Well I must say that, yes, we are hypocrites in the sense of what you (Siying) said, you know.. we always say looks don't matter but we obviously (no pun intended) favour the better looking ones.

I guess why we say looks don't matter and instead, inner beauty does, is that, we want to sound morally, politically, socially, ethically and whatever-ially correct. Truth be told, I for one, as you all know so well, am a hot blooded male, single and on the cusp of adult bachelorhood
(actually not really.. been a bachelor for quite a while now..but for the sake of keeping my vocab well oiled for uni use, I couldn't resist using the word cusp)
AND I am always on the prowl for pretty girls..
(again, pardon me for sounding offensive.. I could think of no better word..)
The fact is plain for all to see. Guys like me are always going after the bimbotic pageant girl for a quality that the plain Jane CANNOT choose to alter/is born with.. no matter how much smarter, kinder, or more good manners she has. This is seen as an uneven playing field to these ladies.. and for every Ms Universe out there, there are a thousand other plain Jane's around. Being truthful and directly forthright that, you know, i'm not going to go after you because someone's more pretty than you, is going to earn you the wrath of the thousand or more mentioned above.. and so, to sound compassionate and sensitive, we obviously condemn the outspoken, so-called "superficial" people, therefore APPEARING magnanimous and thus hypocritical.


I choose to explain why we favour better looking ones from a biological point of view. Humans, like animals (whether of male or female gender), tend to favour the opposite sex with a so-called, erm.. perceived, greater ability to reproduce. And it just so happens that, in my opinion, looking beautiful or handsome is associated with greater reproductive ability/ increased chances of offspring surviving/ increased chances of offspring finding potential mates so THEY themselves can have increased chances of reproducing, to carry on the species line. For males, a hunkier guy is seen to be able to provide security and protection to the weaker sex. (my male ego is at play.. no apologies for that though, women ARE the physically weaker sex.) For females, a voluptous woman is thought to be more suited to giving birth, as compared to, say, a skinny, bamboo thin girl, or obese, high blood pressure woman etc..Hence, simply put, humans prefer the better looking people for no particular reason except by the genes with which we are programmed with (or is it coded, or expressed, or phenoty-pefied with), and through my own research in the encyclopedia of my own brain, this is a natural phenomenon consistent throughout all living organisms.


As Mrs Goh says, "when we are more confident, have high self-esteem...happy, you naturally have a glow, and then your partner will think you are beautiful" and I definitely agree, fervently, that these are also important leading factors to have when choosing a potential mate. Again from a biological/natural viewpoint, I believe that a self-assured person is an attractive person who will inadvertently signal to a potential mate that, (to put it crudely) hey! mate with me and we can have many healthy children! In other words, the opposite sex will naturally go for the ones that they think can increase their chances of reproduction because this self-assuredness implies a stronger will to survive and hence reproduce.

TO CONCLUDE, looks play a very, very, VERY vital role in choosing partners BUT I feel that if one is not blessed with this quality, it is still not a cause for despair.. After all, there can only be one Ms Universe/Ms world, and the majority always wins.. Ok just kidding.. but you get my point..

LJ

03S73 rocking off at 12:08 AM

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