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Originally posted by Fugee
**Despite your next comment, I'm not sure I'm ready to trust a man's bitchdar.
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I'm not even sure I trust what they consider hot. I notice men and women often think very different people are really, really stunning.
In any event, I've known a number of very hot women (by both male and female standards, whatever those are). All but one of them had a good number of female friends, even the bitchy ones, though the bitchy ones tended to have bitchier friends (not necessarily better looking and thus more "competitive" friends, I'd note). All of the hotties had a noticeable minority of women act strangely around them on occasion, but it seemed to my observation a comparable number to those who appeared to treat them with more interest or respect because of their looks.
The one who didn't have any female friends was as crazy as PLF's haberdasher, and had a bad case of the aristocratic vice (i.e.: saying whatever she wanted to whomever she wanted, which in her case was often AMAZINGLY insulting). Her shunning by women was definitely personality related, and definitely women didn't put up with while a lot of men did (she insulted men just as freely as women). Oddly for a woman who was so good looking that men would turn around in the middle of the street just to follow her for hours (literally, and witnessed first hand multiple times), or maybe not so oddly, she was really, really insecure about her looks.
I am more interested in why men and women tend to think different people are
really gorgeous. I have a vague notion that women give more credit to polish, while men give more credit to big boobs. I don't even have enough annecdotal evidence to hazard a guess, though.
