I got two dates for this weekend but they're probably going to be canceled. One of them is ok-looking and younger than me, the other is hot and older than me, so I'm less enthusiastic about her. I'm talking to a few other women but am not really enthused. I actually ... have a lot going on professionally right now and can't be bothered. I cancelled a date to go see a wrinkle in time last week to work on something, it was important.
I'm trying to grow a beard, and separately, I went to my hairdresser today. She went on several times about how she liked my shirt, my shoes, and that the hair on the side of my head seemed darker. She said that she could polish my beard and give it a better shape by removing the thin parts. Afterwards she took some photos of me to add to her instagram, she's a hairdresser so she likes taking pictures of her clients. Behold ! Compensatory beard game:
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It's fine. My two dating threads last year reached a combined 600 pages. People went far off-topic.
It's important to be skeptical of anonymous men on the internet posting anything in the neighborhood of "she's not that hot". It's a weird thing online, it's not true of all men but true of many, that we often downplay the beauty of various women. It's partially "internet tough guy" syndrome, and partially the fact that when we are only we're saturated with images of beautiful women. We recently had people here claiming that Jeff Bezos and his wife are looks-matched.
I think that a lot of people are in for a wake up call if they go to some downtown area of any major city, sit on a bench and just look at the average person. We forget how plain, flawed, etc. the median person out there can be. Beauty is not the norm, it cannot be the norm by definition.
A while back a poster here was rating this and that woman as 5.75/10, etc. I got on an airplane that day at the Dallas Forth Worth airport, a major flight and I walked by what must have been hundreds of people. I realized that not a single one of them would be 7+/10 according to the standards of some on this forum. That's several hundred people, spanning the middle and upper-middle classes, who were uniformly undesirable according to the internet experts. That's an indictment of the internet experts.
That woman is definitely beautiful. I can't tell you if she's top 2% or top 4%, but she's up there. She's not below the standards of any men here, most likely she would turn down every man here as she already has multiple options. Most likely we would not even make it to a position where we could ask her out.