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Allietex

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 02:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Have you noticed that on Suvivior, the men seem to get better looking as the game goes on and the women look worse? The men grow beards, their hair gets longer and they get really scruffy, but they sometimes get better looking. Especially the older ones or the ones who are not os good looking to start with. Remember Jake last year? By the time the game was over he was considered by many people to be "hot." Not too bad for a 60+. This year, I think Butch looks much better than he did at the beginning. Same with Matt and Rob. The women without fail begin to look terrible. The prettier they were at the beginning the worse they look at the end. Now why?

Is it because we accept men looking scruffy. The old cowboy look? Or the unshaven bad boy thing? They don't have to worry about make-up or having a bad hair day. And maybe the beards cover up flaws.

Women on the other had are expected to be well groomed, with make-up and nice hair. Without the grooming aids, soap, shampoo, and conditioner, their looks really suffer.

Just wondering if anyone else has observed this or if you agree or disagree.

Jasonfan

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 02:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree completely, Allietex. On Survivor II, I thought Colby looked his best on the last days of the game.

I wonder if we just accept men for what they are, while we feel women need to fit a certain look.

Good observation!

Jasonfan

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 02:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OH, I just thought of something else! What if part of it is personality? With all the people we've mentioned (Colby, Jake, Rob, Matt), I've come to like them as people more as the game went on. On the other hand, I'd say the opposite about Jenna and Heidi. Ken from Survivor: Thailand was gorgeous at the beginning and at the end!

Maris

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 05:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
they all look pretty skanky to me.

Sia

Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Maris! Yes, Allietex, I think the men do still look good as the game progresses. Rudy looked pretty grizzled by the end of SI, but I still found him very appealing!

I hadn't thought of it exactly in those terms, Allietex, but you've made me think now: maybe it is that their true personalities are showing by the end of the game!

Beruthiel

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 05:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Men look better as they get leaner and more as they would be as "hunter gatherers," less flabby and with tendons showing, ready for any challenge nature throws at them.
Women need 'roundness' to reproduce successfully, it's a biological necessity, since we cease to menstrate if we get too lean, so to human eyes women as bags of bones just look UNhealthy.
But I concur with the idea that as we get to know them, we like and/or dislike what we know and it colours our perceptions!

1kid4us

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 07:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Anybody notice that Matt is the only one who keeps himself "shaven" out in the Amazon. He has got himself a nice goatee that is well shaped and always clean shaven on the sides. This is someone who knows how to shave w/ a machete, being that he has trekked through the wilderness before I can see how he came to be a master w/ the machete. We know that he did not bring a razor, because his Luxury item was a high school wrestling jacket. The other guys just have the rough beard look. I wonder if they have even tried or if they don't want to try to shave like Matt does. JUST A THOUGHT! :-)

Spygirl

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 08:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The girls won razors and shaving cream and other toiletries in a reward challenge. Matt, Rob, and Alex started using them with they were "switched" into that tribe. I would bet that is how Matt has stayed clean shaven.

Awareinva

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 09:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love this thread!

I thought the same thing about the men getting better looking. I think mostly it is weight.... Deena looks much prettier to me on the jury than at the beginning. And the boobsie twins don't look good because they didn't have any extra fat to lose and are losing muscle now.

Matt looks much better to me now than at the beginning.... his bio pic just makes me shudder! I actually think he's kind of cute now.

I didn't like Alex at all but last week on the jury thought he looked pretty yummy too!

I think with me anyway, its that bad boy kind of look that I just am attracted to....but personality probably plays into it as well. I have gotten more attracted to the guys on all six survivors as the shows progressed.

(and no... it was never physical attraction with Big Tom - for those of you who remember that he is my favorite survivor ever!- it was his personality!:) )

1kid4us

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 10:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spygirl, you are so right I forgot about the razors. question, why wouldn't rob and butch use them as well?
I agree with you awareinva, at first I thought matt was a creepy geek, but on thursday I told my hubby that I thought Matt looked really GOOD wet when they were at TC and it was raining, Kinda a sexy bad boy thing going on with him, Boy I never thought I'd say that!

Lobster

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 12:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1kid4us, my father never shaves with anything other than an electric razor. I'm not sure why, and now I plan to ask him, but maybe Butch and Rob prefer electric.

Allietex

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 09:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe they ran out of shaving cream and new razors . It might be pretty painful and irritating to shave with no soap or shaving cream and with an old razor. Some guys might just think it was easier to grow a beard.

I almost did not recognize Jenna tonight. I thought she gained almost too much weight, at least her face looked all puffy. Matt cleaned up nicely, but I thought he had a lot more character in his face at the end of the game with all the angles. Now he just looks like all the other "pretty boys." With all the health problems the suviviors have had after they come back, I wonder if they are going to have to start providing a little more food. Some of these things could come back to cause serious problems later in life.

Kappy

Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought it was really fitting, Allie, that Jenna gained so MUCH weight. After her remarks about others who aren't as pretty as her, she deserves every remark that comes her way for it too.

On the other hand, I thought Matt looked fantastic tonight!

Djgirl5235

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 07:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The only woman Survivor that I can remember looking better by the end was Kathy from Marquesas... I thought she was gorgeous at the end...

Deedee

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 07:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought Jenna looked great! She was no longer a twig with boobs. She looked more like a real person. After seeing her soooo slim, her face did look a bit full, but not fat.