Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12675312-20150501081101/@comment-1298029-20150504232929

~Silverstream wrote: By "nt" do you mean "not"? If so, I think it's ridiculous that girls find it SO hard to call another female beautiful... I just don't get it. I always thought women were in general both more able to and more comfortable with judging the attractiveness of another woman (when the one doing the judging is straight, that is, otherwise naturally they'd be able to tell :) ). It's guys that usually can't (or won't :) ) comment on the attractiveness of other guys. Me (I'm a guy), I can tell if a man looks like a model, just by similarity to ads, but about random guys, I honestly wouldn't know most of the time.

Or do you mean women won't say other women are pretty because of self-esteem issues and the like? That, I'd believe. I suppose a guy could also envy another bloke's muscles etc. Of course, with men when this happens it's more posturing ("yeah, he's a douche", "pretty-boy", "sissy", and the like), whereas with women it's probably more in the bitchiness spectrum, but ultimately I suppose it's not that incomprehensible that physically attractive people of the same sex (for straight people) would make people feel insecure. Do I sometimes think how easy it must be to get dates when you look like Hemsworth or Evans (not to mention have that money and fame)? Sure I do... :)