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You said: "there was a study which showed that a man had to be MORE attractive for a woman to be willing to have a one night stand with him than he had to be for her to MARRY him!"
All this tells me is that women look beyond the outer package when deciding to marry a man. Kudos to us! Since a one night stand is about a physical encounter that lasts, uh, one night, of course it should be about physical attraction. A marriage is about way more than that (for most of us humans, anyway).
And: "I don't believe that for most men what a woman says makes no difference, what I do think, what I said, and what is clearly true as anyone capable of a direct observation of reality will admit, is that an attractive woman has to work a lot harder to get men to stop finding her attractive due to what she says than a man has to work to make himself unnattractive to women based on what he says."
All this tells me is that men like that have lower standards than the women you're talking about, and are willing to keep someone around who looks good even if they don't particularly like her as a person. And this is a positive attribute of men? I don't think so. Again, kudos to us for not keeping around a hot guy who's a dick. Maybe you and every other guy who behaves this way needs to acquire some self-restraint and some standards. Don't blame it on us if you have no standards!
