Superficiality in human attraction has been around since the advent of human beings.
Many men are quick to blame online dating sites for this superficiality, but these online platforms are merely a reflection of this human tendency.
As human beings, we want to be attracted to whoever it is we are dating.
What sadly occurs on dating platforms is that our human tendency to want to be attracted to who we date and mate with is exaggerated, given the brochure-like effect of said platforms.
With this in mind, a man’s profile pictures on a matchmaking platform becomes the number one priority in online dating for women.
That is where it all begins for her.
Without attraction, she isn’t keen on reading the rest of your profile that includes your bio and various personal information about you.
On average, women swipe right to like a profile on between 4% and 7% of male dating profiles.
This percentage is substantially lower than men’s swiping rate, since women tend to be much more choosy.
Men considerably outnumber women on dating apps, often by a ratio of approximately 2:1 or even 3:1 on some dating platforms.
This results in a significant gender gap that affects both men’s and women’s user experiences.
Overall, research shows that men are more likely than women to use dating apps.
A Pew Research report indicated that among unmarried and looking Americans, males were more likely than women to have used a dating site in the past year, at 50% vs. 37%.
With this kind of gender discrepancy, women can afford to put much more weight on the profile pictures of men on dating sites.
Women who are generally considered average-looking in the real world receive far more attention from men on dating apps than they do in the real world.
This causes these average-looking women to develop a bloated sense of their own level of attractiveness.
When all kinds of men, including the good-looking men, are vying to match with her on dating sites, she is liable to regard herself as far more attractive than she actually is.
Sad truth is that the men who are good-looking that give her attention are usually looking to find someone easy to hook up with.
Being that these good-looking men are aware that she is an average-looking woman, they deem her easy pickings, assuming she would jump at the chance to match with them.
She doesn’t realize this.
Rather, she looks at all of this attention she receives from men on dating sites as a sign that she is much better looking than she really is.
Men are far more likely to approach women on dating sites than they would in real life.
They are emboldened, given the anonymity of dating sites.
It’s not as gut-wrenching to experience rejection on internet dating sites as it is in real life.
That said, not only are lots of these men only looking for hookups, including the good-looking men, but also many of them swipe right indiscriminately on the profile of just about any woman that they are presented with.
This is especially true among the average-looking men on dating apps, which is by far the majority of men on dating apps.
Most men on dating apps don’t receive a lot of matches.
Some don’t receive any.
To this end, they swipe right on every profile so as to play the numbers game.
They barely look at these profiles as they swipe right on them.
Once they get matches back, that is when they actually slow down to take a closer look at the pictures of the girl.
Because of all this attention, some legitimate and some dishonest, she leans into the superficial aspects of human nature, focusing considerably more on a man’s physical appearance than she has ever done with men she has met and dated in real life.