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There is just no world in which any of these women are anything other than beautiful. This one pisses me off so much. In what world is Mae Whitman the "designated ugly fat friend"??? I know Wesley says this doesn't always actually mean "ugly fat friend" but the fact that they frame Mae as this kind of character, when she really just looks like a normal teenage girl, is the kind of thing that makes teenage girls everywhere feel really, really shitty about themselves. Gretchen is established to be the "not pretty" one of the three by Regina. Now, Regina is maybe just being mean, but because she has no qualms calling Karen pretty, it seems like she actually believes Gretchen isn't. Gretchen is gorgeous? She has brown curly hair compared to Regina and Karen's blonde straight hair, but other than that I honestly can't figure out why Regina would suggest she's ugly. It's bizarre. I always find it funny when an actor plays the hot character in one movie, and then the awkward nerdy one in another. She's established as the "prettiest" one by Regina in Mean Girls, but here, Seyfried plays the nerdy Needy who plays second-fiddle to Jennifer. Except she looks exactly the same as she does in Mean Girls, save for glasses and somewhat frumpy clothing. They do her dirty with her prom dress, but overall

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I always found this one so funny, especially because Kate's "makeover" to become hot literally just includes That is IT. There's a whole plot about how Kate is insecure because her mom is so hot, but like Why was she cast as the "invisible" girl who's always overlooked or seen as a loser? Like Amanda Seyfried earlier on this list, Molly Ringwald played a plain, overlooked character pretty close in time to when she played an It Girl, despite the fact that she looks basically the same in both roles — but this one's even worse because Sam looks completely identical to Claire from The Breakfast Club , the "princess. Ringwald is obviously gorgeous, as she is portrayed to be in The Breakfast Club, so it's ridiculous that she's supposed to be someone the romantic lead would never even look at in this film. Like Kate, Aimee is supposed to be kind of invisible and not get romantic attention though this is partly in her head Woodley is also portrayed as someone who would be easy for Ben to get to have sex with him in The Secret Life of the American Teenager because she isn't as pretty or popular as Grace or Adrian. I don't know why multiple projects made Woodley's characters out to be plain, because Woodley is the opposite of plain. They make the makeover scene look wildly intense, as if they basically have to re-engineer Gracie's entire body and face, and then she looks exactly the same after except she has straight hair and is wearing makeup. This only proves the point that Gracie was beautiful from the beginning — I mean, she's played by Sandra Bullock. Sure, she didn't have great table manners, but acting like Bullock is unthinkable as a beauty queen is completely unrealistic. This is the classic example, because all they do to make Jamie look "pretty" is basically take off her glasses In what way could Rachel Leigh Cook ever be ugly because of glasses, and why are glasses even "ugly" to begin with? Dean really thought that this was the only girl in school that could NEVER become pretty and popular? None of the Zetas were ugly, and a few of them were gorgeous — like Emma Stone. I'm sorry, there's just no way I am ever going to see Emma Stone as the weird ugly girl, even dressed the way she is above. She just ends up looking like a hot librarian. This is another funny one where they don't even bother to change Stone's appearance in this flashback scene where she talks about boys calling her ugly. Her hair's just up.

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She does get kind of a makeover moment where her hair is in a more traditional '60s style, but even before that, she stands out as completely gorgeous. I have a hard time believing boys at school called her ugly. Again, this may just be an example of a mean character being mean, but Sam is definitely established as the overlooked, non-popular girl when she's played by Hilary Duff. The fact that Austin can't recognize her is actually wild, considering she doesn't even change her appearance for the dance — she just dons a mask over her eyes and wears her hair up. She doesn't even have to do anything to look like a princess because Duff already does. They look like completely normal teenage girls and aren't ugly by any means. Yet they're the butt of the joke and it's mocked that Austin would ever see one of them as Cinderella. This is yet another example of Hollywood putting a beautiful woman in an outfit that isn't super femme, giving her curly hair, and not having her wear makeup, then saying that she's ugly or "tragic. Curly hair is beautiful, and Brittany Murphy was absolutely stunning. Hermione was supposed to be this buck-toothed, frizzy-haired girl, and then They literally just gave up on trying to make her look like Hermione with frizzy hair by the third film. Although I will say, even in the books I suspect Hermione was a lot prettier than she's made out to be, considering all she does at the Yule Ball is smooth her hair and Harry doesn't even recognize her, she looks so pretty. Pansy is described as "pug-faced" a million times in the series, and then she's played by a literal Playboy Model. I love this movie, but right from the start, they try to make us believe Nadine is ugly and that's just preposterous.

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Sure, they give her an awful haircut in the first few minutes, but she's still Hailee Steinfeld, and it makes no sense to keep suggesting she's not as pretty as Haley Lu Richardson. Also, Mr. Bruner keeps making comments about her horrible fashion, when she seems to dress like a completely normal high schooler to me. Her hair is even nicely curled and done-up the whole movie. All they do is put makeup on Mia, take of her glasses, and straighten her hair!!! She mainly looks better after because she's not making weird faces like in the before photos. It's always so funny to me when people react so wildly at school when she shows her new hair. And Anne Hathaway is obviously gorgeous no matter what her hair looks like. We'll end on another example of a star who played the popular girl in one film The Princess Diaries and the nerdy wallflower in another. Jamie is gorgeous from the start of the film, and she basically looks exactly the same in the scene where she sings and everyone notices her in a notable example, they actually curl her hair this time for the magic, "now she's pretty! I know this scene is about her singing talent too, but still. Landon and their other classmates really didn't realize she was beautiful before???Young girls shouldn't feel like they have to do their makeup or fancy hair to look beautiful. Warner Bros. Paramount Pictures. Universal Pictures. Miramax Films. Sony Pictures Releasing. Walt Disney StudiosMotion Pictures. STX Entertainment. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Share This Article Facebook. Not from the same person, but variations on an incredibly common theme.

Why Do Beautiful Women Date Ugly Men?

And just between you, me and everyone reading this… it gets a bit frustrating. Doc , I feel really depressed and I want to share with you my story. Growing up i knew i was not the most handsome man in the room , women always ignore me because i was , well , not an eye candy. Because, quite frankly, no amount of self-improvement is going to work until you focus on why, not the how. And that means talking about how folks get here, first. The first thing that always, always comes up when I get this question is incredibly simple: who told you that this was true? No, seriously. Where are you getting your information? What are your sources? How did you come to these conclusions? How many women have you talked to about this? How many men? Out of those, who told you that women only like tall, muscular guys?

Who told you that women never face rejection or never lack for dates? And — importantly — when you asked… who did you believe? Why did you believe them and not the other folks? Confirmation bias is a cognitive distortion that causes you to look for, remember and interpret information in ways that confirm or support the things you already believe. The more strongly you believe it, the stronger your confirmation bias tends to be. This sort of mental distortion is insidious because it preys upon the belief that we are all objective observers of reality, seeing the world with crystal clear vision and perfect recall and understanding. You can even try this yourself:. But just as significantly, what we expect changes what we literally see and hear. But did it though? Higher stars presumably mean that person is more attractive. But does it? Your only option was to give a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the entire profile, with no other information. Maybe folks gave someone fewer stars because they had lousy photos. Or they said they voted for the wrong politician or loved Air Bud 3. And not in a fun, sticky way. Who are some of the folks that women are hot and bothered over right now? Who are the male leads in some of the top rom-coms? And yet, they are willing to opine mightily about who women find attractive and why. I ran a few straw polls in a couple of different places, where I asked women what made them decide to reject a guy and the answers were interesting.

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A similar thread on the Dr. NerdLove Facebook page had very similar results: looks were rarely the issue. Grooming, smell , and attitude were the most common reasons. Looks almost never came up, except as a secondary or tertiary concern and one that usually would change when women became more attracted to those men over time. And yet, there are still men — including men in the replies — who insist that these women are lying. And if you happen to think that perhaps the women are being less than honest… well, ask yourself exactly why they would lie and why all of them are choosing to be dishonest? More importantly: why are you so sure that women are lying to you about this. Would you lie to others about why you would turn someone down for a date if they asked you out? Probably not. So why is that your first go-to reaction? Which is a lovely thought… right up until it meets reality. Women will never find you attractive. Obviously, then the answer is to somehow get that body and those facial features. But it never works that way. Incels have spent luxury car amounts of money on plastic surgery … only to find out that absolutely nothing has changed. Hell, if I could have a nickel for every guy who swore to me that he was the love child of Quasimodo and The Elephant Man and turned out to be average at worst , I would be swimming through my money like Scrooge McDuck. Worse, they tend to mistake hyperbole for reality, especially when looking at what women say about hot dudes. Part of the problem is how much this ignores close to a century of how men and women were socialized to behave, particularly when it came to sexual desire and attraction. It was only recently that women were even acknowledged as being sexual beings at all and even more recent that people could admit that women were aroused by visual stimuli.

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It gets especially fun when people add a bit of evo-psych bullshit for flavoring to justify their beliefs. The problem is that many guys have mistaken how they feel for how they look… regardless of reality, or what other people say. Their weight was never the problem; their beliefs were. This is the same impulse that leads folks to want to nitpick minor details or argue points out of context. Several of the studies I see thrown around about who women are into go into aspects like The Dark Triad psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavelianism. However, what people often miss is that the reason why folks who trend to narcissism or manipulative behavior is they put in an effort to be more attractive. At most they have an outfit that they have worn exactly once, but never again. Once you believe it, you continue to treat yourself that way. But this works both ways. People will then respond accordingly. To give an example of how seemingly arbitrary changes can make a shocking difference, I give you the time I dyed my hair:.

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Literally all I did was dye my hair and mustache black for a Halloween costume. I dressed the same, had the same face and height, the same weight… and yet I was getting compliments from folks who normally never said anything to me. Similarly, I get more compliments, comments and people stopping me to ask questions after I started getting tattoos than I ever did before. And yet, again: I am absolutely the same person I was before I went under the gun. But because my tattoos and my hair, in that previous example make me feel like a sexy bad-ass I carry myself like one. I behave in a way consistent with how I feel, and people respond to it. And these are all things I do pure ly for myself. They have meaning and significance to me and make me feel more like my best, most authentic self. And the thing is: this is all incredibly easy. Anyone can do this. You have to do them for yourself, in ways that make you feel great. They have to be authentic to who you are as a person, otherwise it simply hangs on you like a bad suit. I realize there are those among you who are already protesting.And, well…. Doing so is a trap; all this does is ensure that you will never have a steady or reliable sense of self-worth. You will always, always be at the mercy of the opinions of total strangers, never able to feel secure in yourself because of what a rando may or may not think about you. So you can feel great for about five seconds before someone else comes along and wrecks your shit for absolutely no reason other than you happened to not line up with their opinion of hotness. This is especially true about not basing your self worth on shit like what strangers on sites or apps like Photofeeler say. And I mean only your guy friends, not one of your female friends. In all likelihood… probably never. Certainly not recently. One of the biggest and most glaring reasons why guys feel unattractive and undesirable is because they get absolutely no support from their bros. As with many pro-social, interpersonal behaviors, this is an area where women and gay men have it all over straight men. Not just the thirst-traps but the everyday candids, selfies and pics of women with their friends. Notice how many of their friends are talking them up, telling them how awesome they look. Guys rarely, if ever, have the same level of support from their guy friends.

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Now, a lot of guys will have a knee-jerk negative reaction to how much of a hype squad women may have. That their friends hyping them up is just blowing smoke up their ass? The real, honest, actual factual truth? Because most straight men never experience anything like this. Certainly not from their male friends. But rather than face this truth, they flip it around on women, insisting that women who do this are vain and delusional. Easier to blame others than to address the lack in your own life. Especially when addressing that lack would require closeness and vulnerability with your bros. And yet, that group support is precisely why women have closer and more meaningful friendships than men. They support and validate each other, they demonstrate and express affection and care. But the dichotomy between that need and that lack of anything to fill it creates a vacuum. And where there is a vacuum, there are people willing to fill it. Much as with so much bad science — see, also: BMI — a lot of these groups profit from perpetuating these toxic emotions and keeping you feeling angry and helpless. As long as they can stoke your feelings of despair and and anger, the resulting engagement pads their bottom lines. It makes it easier to get you to click on the latest culture-war-du-jour video or outrage bait to keep you coming back for more. If you want to feel hotter, then an important step is having better, more supportive friendships with other men. Or, failing that, finding better male friends. Leading by example is important because it creates a permission structure for them to be vulnerable and supportive. Will it be uncomfortable? Yes, probably, at first.Doing new things often can be, especially new behaviors that run so directly against indoctrination and socialization. There is also an inherent discomfort at being on the receiving end of compliments like that for much the same reason. It runs against how so many men are socialized to behave. There will be folks who will express their discomfort through insults or mockery. But I suspect most of your friends would actually appreciate it. Just as importantly, being someone who props other people up and makes them feel good about themselves makes you more likeable. Being vocally supportive of folks is an important part of how you boost your own charisma. After all, we like people who make us feel good. Be the kind of friend you wish you had, and prioritize your relationships with the guy friends who will do the same for you. And that means real friends, people you can actually trust with — if not your life, at least your ego and your secrets. People who you actually know well and want you to succeed and do well, not randos you barely know on subreddits and Discords. And especially not folks who shit on your dreams or hopes and try to drag you back down to their level of hopeless despair.

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This last part is tricky. Their evidence is… well, they got turned down once. They are drawing conclusions based on… well, nothing but their own insecurities, really. This was a conclusion you came to based on your own self-limiting beliefs and facts not in evidence. So much of their misery comes from the idea that dating is about love at first sight and that they need to be able to sweep a stranger off her feet and into their bed. Most people meet their partners either through friends or via shared activities. Just as importantly, they very rarely start a relationship right off their first meeting. More often than not, interest and attraction builds over time as they get to know one another. After all, the more time people spend around each other, the more opportunities they have for positive experiences with one another. The more positive experiences they have, the more they come to like one another… including finding each other attractive. However, this requires two things. First, it requires building a connection with people and making sure that they enjoy spending time with you. This means working on your personal charisma and warmth and overall personality. Matching on an app means nothing. Just as men are capable of being attracted to different body types, faces, etc. Men just tend to refuse to believe it, in no small part because they give more credence to other men on the subject. Especially men who have very little idea of what women actually want. Attractiveness is a feeling , not a Platonic state.The more you feel it in yourself , the more attractive you become. If you want to be more attractive to women, the most important thing you can do is start being more attractive to yourself. You need to believe in your own awesomeness first; until you do, nobody else will. As the hot dog vendor said to the Buddhist with a twenty dollar bill: change comes from within. If you want life to be better, then starting with your inner state is far, far more important than your height, abs or cheekbones. You have to lead the way yourself, for yourself. If you want dating advice you can take on the go, be sure to check out and if you enjoy them, please don't forget to give a review on Amazon and Goodreads. Send in your questions for Dr. NerdLove today! I mean, do folks not realize I have a search bar and extensive archive?