Rachel’s Reviews > Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty > Status Update

"A woman makes her evaluations of men more slowly, and if another woman offers a different opinion, she may change her mind. The longer she is left to stare in private at a photograph of a man she has rated as handsome, the less good-looking he becomes in her eyes. If women take a second look, compare notes with other women, or change their minds after more thought, it is not out of indecisiveness but out of wisdom."

If this book is trying to make me want to completely avoid men, it certainly has accomplished that goal.

People are more likely to help attractive people, even if they don't like them. People are less likely to ask attractive people for help. "Our efforts to please good-looking people with no expectation of immediate reward or reciprocal gesture are one way we reinforce beauty as a form of status, not unlike being born into the nobility or inheriting wealth."

So far, this book has called men pedophiles and said that narcissism is a feminine trait. Two things that are extremely debatable, lol. Wow.