Two people discuss how social media, especially Instagram, has made physical attractiveness essential for dating. They argue that attractiveness now includes power, status, and fame, not just looks. Men tend to value youth and specific body types, but what counts as desirable keeps shifting.
In order to have a relationship in today's day and age, you have to be very attractive, whether you're a man or a woman, because people don't need you as much as they did even a generation ago. They have to want you if they're going to enter into a relationship with you, whether it's just for a night or for the rest of your life. And so we've seen an ascendancy in the importance of attractiveness in the last, let's say, 10, 20 years that has just been exponentially exacerbated by social media and like the Instagram optics.
And you're not just talking attractiveness, you're talking power. Power, status, fame, right? That's all wrapped into attractiveness.
Yeah, I don't just mean physical attractiveness. Exactly. But what's attractive to men isn't usually what's attractive to women.
Correct. Yeah, I mean, we want beauty.
Beauty, youth, small waists, big hips and breasts and all that jazz. I mean, people have different types, but like, that seems to be fairly universal.
