<p>While I agree with you in theory, physical attractiveness is a biological impulse. Studies have proven that infants will look more often at a symmetrical face over an asymmetrical one.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how talking about general attractiveness (symmetry, physical fitness, intelligence) is objectification. It’s a major factor in our lifelong reproductive decisions and many of those decisions occur during the college years. It is a very legitimate question to wonder whether the qualities one seeks in an optimal mate are likely to be abundant at a particular university. </p>
<p>If your 16 year old niece has never looked at a guy and objectified him by thinking, “Wow. He’s hot.” then she should probably go see a doctor. She’s not a healthy 16 year old.</p>
<p>hey so can we stop rating and assessing girls like we were some kind of product on display? “The girls are good here” is like saying “The bread is fresh” or like “The fries are hot”… Each girl you meet at Cornell will be different so it’s really not fair that 1. you’re generalizing all the girls to make it seem like there aren’t any uniquely hot or uniquely fascinating girls on campus and 2. you’re treating girls like some kind of property that you can assess.</p>
<p>Taken to a further extreme, if finding an intelligent, upwardly mobile, attractive mate were important for an 18 year old, perhaps working in a factory might not be the smartest move. </p>
<p>Generalizations are fair game. I know I sound like a jerk, but I’m actually quite supportive of feminism. I just think schools have overall qualities of genders that can be assessed broadly. Obviously with a school of 20,000 it’s not accurate, but is perhaps broadly valuable.</p>
<p>As for the…argument going on, I don’t think it is being said like “How are the fries?” I mean…we are just trying to get a general feeling about how, on average, the girls at Cornell look. Honestly, I would think this is sexist if I hadn’t seen a few threads labeled “How are the guys at ____.” I guess it works both ways…and in that case, all is fair.</p>
<p>Meanwhile…are there a lot of hot asian girls?</p>
<p>it’s not objectifying women…both men and WOMEN in college are interested in purely physical relations…it’s an insult for you to think that only men are interested in just sex…</p>
<p>i will say that white women are probably the least attractive here. asian females tend to get all the white guys. asian males are probably the worst off. although those urban/metro ones tend to do well enough. </p>
<p>i hate to stereotype but i have a feeling that the more attractive girls in new york state dont make it to good colleges like cornell because they spend more time partying than studying. this is why schools like ithaca college have more attractive girls (because IC is easier to get into than cornell). </p>
<p>but not sure how that would explain why guys here are more attractive…</p>
<p>Resurgam - well let me be really stereotypical and chauvinist for a second - women are often judged by looks, pretty girls don’t have to be smart, they can marry rich. Hot guys are still evaluated by their ability to be a “provider” (rich guys = hot chicks), and so graduating from an ivy and making more money is appealing. So maybe that explains why you think guys at cornell are better-looking than women. Either that or you’re gay (i’m assuming you’re a guy).
then why are Southern women so morbidly obese compared to the rest of the world? I agree the Southern/Western colleges have the prettier girls though. I think this is partly warm weather, but also cause a lot of “party” schools are southern/western and more “elite” colleges are northern, and it’s rare for someone to be really really hot and also really intelligent. But then again schools like Vandy and UCLA are known for pretty girls and they must be smart as well to go to those schools.</p>
<p>^ No of course I understand the socioeconomic factors behind it (poverty and poorer people having to buy foods high in saturated fat and chemicals). It was a rhetorical question in response to that person saying for genetic reasons, southern women show off their bodies more in skimpy clothes. I think that’s just the college crowd. Vanderbilt might be composed of southern belles who can afford a pricy college and are intelligent, to boot, but that doesn’t reflect Tennessee…so I doubt the genetic idea he proposed is true.</p>
<p>As for quality of Cornell girls - well i’m just an applicant, but my male friend from HS goes to Cornell and after 1 month there decided he is gay! I hope this is an indicator of an accepting environment rather than the female population :D</p>
(i’m assuming you’re a guy).