Originally Posted by Menk:
“I've seen this point made before and I've always rejected it as a bit of lazy thinking.
It kind of suggests that all less attractive people have personalities because they need them to be successful, but of course there are plenty of less attractive people who are also short on personality. And there are plenty of beautiful people with great personalities - why didn't they sit back on their laurels?
But this view also fails to take into account that your personality starts to develop from the day you are born, when every baby is told that they are beautiful and cosseted and continues to develop throughout childhood when they are not aware of any exceptional beauty and their personality develops without awareness too. People don't wait until they are invited to parties for a chance to develop their personalities.”
“I've seen this point made before and I've always rejected it as a bit of lazy thinking.
It kind of suggests that all less attractive people have personalities because they need them to be successful, but of course there are plenty of less attractive people who are also short on personality. And there are plenty of beautiful people with great personalities - why didn't they sit back on their laurels?
But this view also fails to take into account that your personality starts to develop from the day you are born, when every baby is told that they are beautiful and cosseted and continues to develop throughout childhood when they are not aware of any exceptional beauty and their personality develops without awareness too. People don't wait until they are invited to parties for a chance to develop their personalities.”
Of course there are exceptions
Doesn't mean it's not true in general.
As for what stage the personality develops, clearly most of the personality is developed when we become social, at school.
Anyway, it's something I've noticed in my life. The most interesting people I've met, are generally not considered very good looking and the few very good looking people I've known have been narcissistic, entitled, spoilt and lazy, who expected me to put all the effort in.
I would add that being objectively good looking and believing you're better looking than you are amount to the same thing, and can be found in many BB housemates.
Winston, I would say, has probably had no shortage of female attention and guys who want to be his friend, because let's face it, who wants to go out on the pull with a complete munter tagging along with you (well, I guess that kinda could work from the sense of less competition!) but in general, both sexes want to associate with good looking people.
Sometimes the most obvious explanations or "lazy thinking" are true. Occam's razor and all that.
