Chapter 21 There are too many girls on the street!

Do you think the title is too exaggerated?Are there really that many girls on the street?Whether the answer is right or wrong, you're right.Like boys, all girls have the right to be on the street, but that's not what I'm talking about.In life, we see more women than there are, and that's fine unless they're all incredibly beautiful.Of course, I'm not saying that everyone is going to hell or have paranoia or anything, no.Yet the high street, like newspapers, magazines and other media, is full of advertisements that exploit female beauty.We don't have to look hard, we can see those beauties.But what's the problem?Is someone asking for trouble on purpose?The answer also exists between right and wrong.Given the choice, we should generally have no objection to increasing beauty in our lives.But we also realize that there is a problem under that surface, and sometimes that problem can become quite serious.Look!

You might not immediately believe what I'm about to say: people don't feel good looking around at all those beautiful women.Women's happiness will decrease, and men will become negative because of it, didn't you expect it?Let me talk about women first. The same kind on the billboard is so beautiful, otherwise it would not be in the advertisement.They are so beautiful that they have even surpassed reality.Photographers use computer programs and other techniques to refine their already beautiful beauty.Based on age, appearance, temperament, and sexiness, models stand out one by one, and computer software exaggerates those beautiful female features infinitely. German supermodel Claudia Schaefer can't even recognize herself.And those real women of flesh and blood have to compete with these unmatched rivals, and equality will never be possible.Cosmetics and clothing are nothing compared to computer software that supernaturalizes virtual opponents.No woman will admit to the result of this competition, their self-confidence level has dropped, and how can this make a good feeling?

A corresponding explanation can be found from the following facts.Hundreds of thousands of years ago, human populations were much smaller than they are today.Our ancestors lived in a group of dozens of people, almost evenly divided between men and women; so, naturally, women's competition in finding a mate was greatly reduced.Assuming that there are 150 people in a group, 75 of them are women. After removing the elderly and children, there are only 40 potential competitors left.Half of them may be uglier than the other half, so there are only 20 competitive opponents left.There is still a fight, and the result can be lost or won.And today's competitors are tens of thousands, including those incomparable beauties who are insurmountable now and in the future.Seeing them, women start to feel ugly, redundant, and a failure.Although this is only a small part of the source of happiness, it is enough to cause negative thoughts.These thoughts are not so simple in some girls, and they will continue to expand, leading to inferiority complex and even anorexia.

Now let's look at men again.Seeing those beauties, they shouldn't have problems, right?Of course, the more beauties, the better!You probably think so too.A recent study showed that men express negative attitudes towards all those images of the opposite sex that are out of reality.When men see super beautiful and sexy women in magazines, their self-confidence drops.Seeing this, you might say that what just happened to women will now happen to men.Ads not only feature super-beautiful women, but also handsome men, who can destroy a man's competitiveness.In fact, it is not the male models that affect men, but those beauties who cannot be obtained.When choosing a partner, women usually take the lead. They know which man can live under the same roof with them, and the man who is chosen will have a sense of conquest.Beautiful women will choose men with rich resources, such as appearance, status, wealth, etc.; while super beautiful women will choose extremely powerful men.However, no man feels that he is extremely powerful. Even if he cannot see those so-called extremely powerful competitors, he dare not accept the challenge, which leads to a decline in self-confidence and self-worth.

This view can be confirmed by experiments.If the super-beautiful woman in the ad was next to a perfectly normal guy, the man who participated in the experiment saw the ad's self-confidence go up.He'll think, "If he gets a chance, so can I." The evolution of human behavior is a good and interesting basis for a better understanding of how humans behave today.Now, there is no necessary connection between various human behaviors, but this connection has appeared in the distant past, and it is very important to realize this.Maybe we can put theory into practice by including an unretouched photo of Claudia Schaeffer next to her — say mine — when promoting men’s products.