Originally Posted by Comrade Brian

The reason why women want to look pretty(by other's standards)aps, is because of society's pressure upon them, for instance, a young female is often told they look pretty/beautiful, the male counterpart is more looked for toughness and intelligence. Now toughness/intelligence, can be gained easily, prettiness is natural. This often leads to depression moreover for the female, becuase they are pressured to change to something that they are not, they lose their individual uniqueness by looking the same, and also since prettiness is natualer, its hard/impossible to change it. Now one force acting on this is tradition, look at earlier societies. And in TV/movies, females are more of a "sexual object". Also since to be "more beautiful", they are often pressured to buy products, e.g. makeup, diets, etc. which are actually in a majority of cases is unhealthy, are pressured by corporatons because it increases their profits the more you buy their products.

I tend to look for more who the person really is, say on the "inside", but I find myself pysically attracted to black-haired females for some odd reason.

Originally Posted by Comrade Brian

the male counterpart is more looked for toughness and intelligence