The Love Equation

An interesting article on Salon.com talks about a PhD candidate in economics who comes up with an equation using (pseudo)variables about his chances of finding a girlfriend (who, by his definition, is a lady willing to sleep with him - a skewed definition, for sure).  Let's just say his chances are pretty slim.

I found this comment on the article, posted by ralafler, to be quite pertinent to the discussion:

"In our media age where everyone is surrounded by images of people who are much more attractive than average [...], people (especially men, and especially [those] who spend more time looking at images on their computers than out in the real world meeting real people), have distorted ideas of what a woman should look like to be considered attractive. They overlook dozens of available single women in their lives because they don't look like the models they feel entitled to, and then they whine that they can't find a girlfriend. Not so charming."

That's my emphasis on "people have distorted ideas of what a woman should look like to be considered attractive."  More discussion about this on Sunday.