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...tend to be between 5'6" and 5'9" in real life. I confess I'm confused as to how someone as smashing as Brightstar claims to have been ended up so bitter.
Now, if I may, I'd like to address his earlier "argument," which as far as I could parse it was that because things "must be AWESOME" for beautiful young women, women have it easier than men overall.
Yes, women like wealthy men, men like beautiful women. This is grammar school level social science. But please consider the following:
1. It is easier for a poor but intelligent man to become wealthy, than for an ugly but intelligent woman to become beautiful.
2. Even if you were to argue that ugly women can always get plastic surgery, going from ugly to beautiful via the knife would cost great gobs of money. Ergo, a woman not born beautiful has to be wealthy to become beautiful. A man not born wealthy does NOT have to be handsome to become wealthy.
3. The acquisition of wealth has other benefits besides attracting women--it can also get you power, freedom, travel, cars, houses, and yes shoes. The acquisition of beauty has attracting men as pretty much its sole benefit.
4. Wealth has a tendency (the current recession notwithstanding) to increase over time, while beauty, no matter how great, is guaranteed to decrease with age.
So let's not have any more whinging about how easy/awesome/etc. things are for (beautiful young) women. Please remember that the percentage of women who are both young AND beautiful is very small. A homely and/or >40 year old woman is far worse off (when it comes to attracting a mate on these shallow criteria) than virtually any man, because she has NO chance to become a hot young thing, whereas he has at least a minuscule chance to become financially successful.
Oh, and Melissa Beech is a prostitute, Louboutins are shoes, a Bentley is a car, etc. Whether or not it's moral or should be legal to do as she's doing are two other discussions, but we can at least call it what it is. Of course, her designer wardrobe + eBay is probably a more secure retirement plan than most of you have in the States...
