William Costello

Other women in particular see you as more promiscuous and things like that.

But there are enormous benefits across the board to being attractive.

male or female.

But then at the other end of the spectrum, there's enormous cost to being unattractive.

And there is new research that shows that we're not readily able to recognize this form of privilege.

We acknowledge other forms of privilege, but attractiveness, we're reluctant to acknowledge that it even exists.

And we also have evidence that women are far more attractive than men.

It's not just one OKCupid study.

Loads of data unpublished from our lab finds this attractiveness discrepancy.

There's tons of data.

Women are just more attractive.

So arguably a feminine advantage in the domain of attractiveness, when that can be translated into so many resources.

There are studies to show that beauty is status for women.

Women defer to more beautiful women in the way that men defer to more formidable men.

So this is an advantage.

And it could be another thing that's actually a less acknowledged point about what's putting women off having children is that they hear these horror stories.

They literally have to take a massive beauty hit, and there's no way around that.

It's less than they've ever had to take, but it's still there.

Yeah, I don't think people would acknowledge at face value that's one of the reasons.

Well, you do see them sometimes.