Alive Man

Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch

One of the most promiscuous women I knew (in Shanghai) literally had pretty top tier men FIGHTING over her. She slept with them right away. She sought out casual sex. When she wanted to settle, she would simply pick among the best of her suitors. She didn’t hide her behavior from them. She made jokes all the time about loving sex.

Clavicular introduced his ex to his girlfriend and exposed his type 😭

The 'beautiful is good' stereotype, also known as the 'attractiveness halo effect', works both ways: Unattractive people are also assumed to have undesirable personality traits. People often assume that attractive individuals also have other positive qualities, such as being more sociable, intelligent, or emotionally stable. This is called the “beautiful is good” stereotype or “attractiveness halo effect”. The researchers wanted to find out whether the opposite is also  true: are women seen more negatively when they are judged to be unattractive? To explore this, the study used facial photographs of 154 German women and 149 Brazilian women. A group of 168 women from Germany rated each face for attractiveness and also judged how socially competent, intellectually competent, and emotionally stable each person seemed. They also rated the opposite negative traits (social incompetence, intellectual incompetence, and emotional instability). Overall, the study shows that first impressions based on looks can work in both directions: attractiveness can lead to more favourable assumptions, while unattractiveness can lead to equally strong or even stronger  negative assumptions. We present only limited support for the claim that attractiveness halo effects may be driven more by “ugly is bad” than by “beautiful is good” perception. These findings provide a systematic comparison of positive and negative halo effects, revealing that negative biases for unattractive individuals can be at least as pronounced as positive biases for attractive individuals. These effects also mostly generalize across German and Brazilian faces, extending evidence on halo effects beyond single‑population samples. While not significantly different from attractiveness halo effects, the negative halo effects in our correlational analyses were still moderate to strong, with important implications for person perception and social interactions. In social interactions, for example, it can have harmful effects on the treatment of unattractive individuals if negative stereotypes determine behaviour towards them. It has already been shown that unattractive individuals are subject to prejudices and discrimination in domains like social hierarchies, education, employment, or even medical diagnoses Our findings extend these suggestions by showing that less attractive individuals are ascribed stronger degrees of social and intellectual incompetence and emotional instability.

i’m in enemy territory

In the under-30 demographic, 63% of men are single, compared to only 34% of women. Are the women dating each other or what?